There is nothing that frustrates the home fans more than watching their team stumble on the power play. In an IceCats season that has been, so far, close to perfect, the power play has been the one scratch in the new paint job. At times, it seems as though there's more going on in the Worcester Auditorium than on the Worcester power play.
Guys wait for the other guy to make something happen instead of making it happen themselves.
It hasn't worked that way, and it doesn't always work that way, coach Don Granato says. Worcester's problem may be that its power-play players are too good for their own good. Granato has stayed with most of the same power-play guys for a while, he said, because he figures they'll eventually learn from their mistakes and make the necessary adjustments. Power plays are often overemphasized, too, Granato said, because they lend themselves to easy analysis statistically. The fans, the media.