After Wellwood steps onto the ice at Scotiabank Place tonight, the Maple Leafs will welcome back his brains rather than his brawn. Given Kyle’s medium-sized frame, brawn is in short supply with the player, however, he has lots of brainpower that the Maple Leafs’ moribund power play desperately needs. Before last night’s matches, the Leafs’ power play was 26th among the League’s thirty teams with a success rate of 13.4 %. Toronto had also allowed 4 short-handed goals, the most in the NHL.

Kyle Wellwood, who has not played a match this year after requiring surgery for a 2nd time on his sports hernia, will inject a healthy shot of creativity in the power play.

The most obvious reason for this year’s travails is that Kyle Wellwood, defenseman McCabe and winger Tucker, who were regulars on last year’s power play, have not played on it for the past 2 weeks.

Kyle Wellwood is going to play centre on the 4th line with another newcomer to this season’s lineup. Bell finished his fifteen-game League suspension and will play with Kyle Wellwood and John Pohl. On the power play, Kyle will be on the Number 1 unit with Sundin and Antropov as the forwards, with Blake dropping down to the 2nd unit.

There is no better test for the Toronto Maple Leaf power play than the Senators tonight. At 12-1 before last night’s matches, Ottawa is the Number 1 hockey team in the League and they enjoy a perfect record against Toronto’s power play. In the first 2 matches of the season, Ottawa blanked the Maple Leafs on fourteen power-play opportunities in winning both matches.