Matt Dumba and Mikael Granlund connected twice for goals in the Minnesota Wild's 7-1 demolition of the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night, and Dumba's second marker was a thing of beauty on multiple levels.

The defenseman ripped home a shot off a brilliant Granlund feed to give the Wild a 6-0 lead in the opening minute of the third period, and Minnesota's solid power-play structure allowed the dynamic duo to execute the sequence to perfection. Let's take a look at how they did it.

As we begin, Zach Parise has the puck behind the Canadiens' net, but the Wild aren't fully set up yet.

Parise wiggles free and finds Ryan Suter at the point, in the top right-hand corner of the screen. Now, the Wild are in business.

Suter walks the line and dishes to Granlund on the edge of the circle. Dumba (No. 24), who had been parked at the point on the near side, cuts to the middle as Granlund (No. 64) takes Suter's pass along the boards.

Granlund moves in down low and draws a pair of Canadiens defenders, with two more nearby. His passing options appear limited, but a certain Wild blue-liner is lurking unmarked on the far side.

Dumba, who remains wide open, makes his move toward the goal. Granlund identifies that and feathers a terrific pass that somehow finds its way through four Canadiens.

Dumba receives the dish and wastes no time unleashing a wrist shot.

The wrister ricochets off both posts and past Canadiens goaltender Antti Niemi to give the Wild a six-goal lead.

Minnesota went 4-for-4 on the power play in the game. Dumba's goal from Granlund early in the third offers a shining example of why the Wild were so successful on the man advantage, and why they boast the eighth-most effective power play in the NHL this season.

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The Tampa Bay Lightning's second goal in an 11-second span on the power play against the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday was a shining example of the vision and skill Tampa Bay's most dangerous players possess.

It was Brayden Point's second of the game and fifth in the last two contests, but it wouldn't have been possible without Steven Stamkos' precision, nor the awareness shown by both Nikita Kucherov and Victor Hedman.

Let's take a look at how they did it.

As we begin, the public address announcer in Philadelphia hasn't even had time to announce Tyler Johnson's marker that made it 4-1 for Tampa Bay moments earlier, but the Lightning are pressing again. What was a 5-on-3 is now a 5-on-4.

J.T. Miller fires the puck into the Flyers' zone, and it heads to Hedman at the blue line after bouncing off Dale Weise's left skate.

Hedman spots Kucherov - who's out of view on the broadcast - and taps it in his direction.

Kucherov, camped out on the edge of the circle, surveys the scene before receiving the puck and notices Stamkos (at the point to Hedman's left) turning on the jets down the wing.

Like Hedman did just a second or two earlier, Kucherov directs a perfect pass without wasting any time controlling the puck, and it slides toward Stamkos, who remains unmarked at the point on the left wing.

Stamkos receives it while cruising into the slot, and has to decide whether to shoot or try to find Brayden Point, who's positioned in front of the net.

Now, let's pick it up from another angle for a better view. Flyers defenseman Andrew MacDonald drops to the ice, perhaps expecting a shot.

Despite having an extremely tight window for a potential pass to Point, Stamkos somehow feathers a perfect feed under the sliding MacDonald and right to his red-hot teammate.

Point makes no mistake on the redirection and it's in the net.

Stamkos' nose for the net and impressive hand-eye coordination were the biggest factors on this goal, but the Lightning's power-play structure and passing ability showed why they're one of the most effective units in the NHL.

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Good luck stopping Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, and Gabriel Landeskog, especially when they're all on the ice with the man advantage.

Late in Friday's game against the Vancouver Canucks, the Colorado Avalanche's red-hot trio connected on the power play, pulling off a flawless passing sequence to take a 6-5 lead with under two minutes to go in regulation.

Let's take a closer look at how they did it.

We pick things up with Rantanen (No. 96) controlling the puck as Colorado sets up with about 20 seconds left in the penalty to Canucks center Bo Horvat.

Rantanen evaluates his options with Landeskog planted down low, Matt Calvert in the slot, Tyson Barrie at the blue line, and with the path to MacKinnon obstructed by two Canucks penalty killers.

Rantanen elects to move into the faceoff circle, drawing in multiple Vancouver defenders in the process. Ben Hutton takes him on directly.

Hutton appears to be playing Rantanen well, but the Avalanche winger feathers a beautiful pass between the blade of Hutton's stick and the Canucks rearguard's skates, and the puck goes by him on the way to Landeskog.

Landeskog stops the puck on his stick for a split-second while sitting on the doorstep and quickly recognizes both that he can't safely get it to Calvert and that MacKinnon is lurking unattended in the other circle.

Landeskog quickly slings it in MacKinnon's direction.

MacKinnon goes down on one knee and rips a one-timer, to which Canucks goaltender Jacob Markstrom barely has time to react.

It's a perfectly placed shot, and it beats Markstrom short side.

The whole sequence was textbook power-play strategy and execution, carried out about as well as possible.

The awareness and passing ability shown by both Rantanen and Landeskog, plus the finish by MacKinnon, made it a shining example of how and why they've been so dominant this season.

Colorado ultimately gave up the tying goal with 36 seconds left and then lost the game in overtime, but MacKinnon's second marker of the night served as an immaculate illustration of the chemistry the trio has developed.

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