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celebrates his power play goal on the Calgary Flames with teammate Ales Hemsky Related Multimedia: The Edmonton Oilers head into tonight-s contest with the Los Angeles Kings having won four straight games. They-ve also scored a power play goal in six straight. Coincidence? Oilers head coach Craig MacTavish doesn-t think so.-I think there are a lot of elements that are coming together,- MacTavi afl football results sh said when asked about the team-s recent success. -Most of the elements of our game have been pretty satisfactory the last little while. A big part of it is being healthy. Some of the guys have stepped into positions and filled out roles that I wasn-t sure they could do.-For the first time all season, Sheldon Souray was part of the top power play unit in the NHL last season in Montreal. He talke afl football results d about the reason for some of the success he had. -In Montreal some of us played together for three or four years. We were starting to find a rhythm. When you do that, things start happening and it just snowballs. It starts becoming a little bit easier for you when you know what guys are going to do,- he said.Souray noted that it-s taken awhile for the same type of cohesiveness to develop in Edmo afl football results nton but it-s now starting to come together. -We-re starting to get used to each other a little bit more, starting to see guys- tendencies. They threw five guys together and some of us had never played together before,- he continued. -Power play is a huge part of hockey today. The penalty killing, power play and special teams play such a factor. Things are starting to come together and it-s going afl football results to be an important part of our success from now until the end of the season.-Souray did note that even though the power play has been going along at a 25.0% clip (7-for-28) in recent games, at 14.1% over the entire season there-s still plenty of improvement needed. scores during a power play on Vancouver Canucks' Roberto Luongo during first period NHL hockey action in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Tu afl football results esday, Nov. 20, 2007. (AP Photofont> -We have a long way to go. We-re 28th (ranked in the NHL) and you have to at least be in the top half to have any success.-Shawn Horcoff says that simplicity is a big reason for the recent improvement. -Chemistry obviously plays a huge role on your power play but at the same time it comes down to execution. Earlier in the year we seemed to be doing a lot of afl football results things right but we weren-t getting goals. Now guys are doing the little things right and making sure we have good clean passes where we can get shots off,- he said, adding that the team is now finding ways to put rebounds in. -Our first unit scores a lot of big goals for us and as a second unit you want to go out there and ride that momentum, continue to create chances and hopefully bang a couple afl football results goals in.-Tom Gilbert afl football results
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