The road to a good start for the Blues is paved by special teams.

So it makes sense that, with less than two weeks remaining until the regular season opener against Minnesota, the Blues began their power play work during practice on Friday. The club first started prepping their penalty kill during Tuesday’s practice.

“If you want to start the year well, you’ve got to start the year with really strong special teams,” Blues coach Jim Montgomery said. “I saw it with the last time I was here. Our power play and penalty kill the first 10 games were unbelievable, we’re (8-2-1). It goes hand in hand. So we just want to get a lot of reps at it, and we’re going to rep it a lot more next week, too.”

Last year, when Winnipeg began the season 15-1-0, they did so with the top power play (42.2%) in t

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