Taking on two roles, Andrew Brunette will lead Nashville’s power play.

The power play has perhaps been the Nashville Predators individual unit that has been scrutinized the most over the years.

The Predators’ power play, which has historically been among the worst in the league, has been an issue for more than just the last few seasons under John Hynes, as it has ranked as the 20th best unit in the NHL since the 2019–20 campaign.

The Predators have actually had the fourth worst power play unit in the league since their inaugural season (the 1998–99 campaign)—they have only managed a 16.8% success rate in 1,895 regular season games.

Naturally, that includes a few extremely thin seasons in the team’s early history, but even in the most prosperous period of the team’s history (2014–15 through 2019–20) under coach Peter Laviolette, the team had a subpar power play (17.8%, which placed 28th in the league).

Dan Lambert, John Hynes’ assistant, and Laviolette’s favorite assistant coach, Kevin McCarthy—no, not that Kevin McCarthy—were recent examples of power play coaches. Both were unable to have a significant impact on the success of the unit.

However, with Andrew Brunette as the new head coach, who will be in charge of the power play?

As it happens, he’ll handle it alone.