Power play woes

Players leading the league in 5-on-4 ice time without a power-play goal being scored (prior to last night's games):

	NAME	POS	TEAM	GP	TOI/60	s Mins
1	DUSTIN PENNER	LW	EDM	13	2.67	34.71
2	STEVE WAGNER	D	STL	12	2.77	33.24
3	MILAN MICHALEK	RW	S.J	11	2.84	31.24
4	OWEN NOLAN	RW	CGY	14	2.13	29.82
5	MARTIN RUCINSKY	LW	STL	12	2.44	29.28
6	JONI PITKANEN	D	EDM	7	3.92	27.44
7	MARK MOWERS	LW	ANA	13	2.07	26.91
8	CHRISTIAN EHRHOFF	D	S.J	10	2.69	26.9
9	ROB NIEDERMAYER	C	ANA	11	2.43	26.73
10	MATTHEW LOMBARDI	C	CGY	14	1.73	24.22
11	PETTERI NUMMELIN	D	MIN	10	2.41	24.1
12	JAMES VANDERMEER	D	CHI	9	2.52	22.68
13	YANIC PERREAULT	C	CHI	11	2.02	22.22
14	KENT HUSKINS	D	ANA	14	1.56	21.84
15	MASON RAYMOND	LW	VAN	8	2.48	19.84
16	RENE BOURQUE	LW	CHI	9	2.2	19.8
17	DICK TARNSTROM	D	EDM	10	1.98	19.8
18	BOBBY HOLIK	C	ATL	14	1.36	19.04
19	ANTOINE VERMETTE	LW	OTT	12	1.45	17.4
20	CRAIG CONROY	C	CGY	14	1.22	17.08

This reads like a list of players who shouldn't be on the power play.

Penner finally broke his drought last night with a man advantage marker, his first of the season after swatting in nine of the things last year, and he's possibly the exception to what I just said. Park this kid in front of the net, even if he is out of shape.

Speaking of which, it's no wonder Anaheim's struggled so much on the power play — just look at the cast they've got out there on the second unit. Rob Niedermayer, Kent Huskins, Mark Mowers?

That's ugly.

There are also a whole whack of others who have been living on the power play and seen just one puck go in the right net: Thomas Vanek, Doug Weight, Max Afinogenov, Steve Reinprecht, Jason Pominville, Frantisek Kaberle, Marc-Andre Bergeron, Alex Steen and Miro Satan.

Some players have even been scored on shorthanded regularly. Alex Frolov out in L.A. has been on the ice for four shorties (and four power-play goals), while Holik, Tobias Enstrom, Radim Vrbata, Jason Blake and Tomas Kaberle have all had three scored against them.