I personally think Barrie is a massive part of the Oilers PP success. His offensive ability to create multiple play scenarios while stick handling along the blue line keeps the opposing PK frozen and creates room for Drai and Mcdavid. Barrie can also stick handle his way out of trouble on the Blue line.
Bouchard has a bomb of a shot and they could build a PP system around that but his stick handling and passing is no where near the speed and ability of Barrie yet the way I see it. Would have to be an almost entirely different system which may not be a bad thing either as many teams seem to have the current one figured out, and they have become a lot more successful defending against it.
Not saying they wouldn’t be successful without Barrie but he is a massive part of their PP success with the system they have now.
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