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Same story in the playoffs. He had 26 career goals and only three on the power play before joining Oilers.

“I just can’t be so reliant on goals and points on the power play,” he said, after a workout on Wednesday at Edmonton’s Downtown Community Arena.

Maybe that’s why he was on the Oilers’ No. 2 line and not with Connor McDavid as the season wore on, with Patrick Maroon getting the nod there instead — of Maroon’s 27 goals, just three were on the power play.

I just can’t be so reliant on goals and points on the power play, Milan Lucic

And now about that visor for Lucic, something he don this year: he has long been one of the holdouts, mainly because he’s tasked with protecting his teammates by fighting every now and then, and wearing a visor is anathema for fighters. Lucic hasn’t had any major scares with a puck or stick to his eye, either.

But Lucic had a visor on when skating with several Oilers Wednesday morning, maybe a test run for regular-season.

“It’s mandatory for everybody coming into our league,” he said. “I have tried it before when I’ve broken my nose a couple of times. Didn’t bother me too much.”

“If you look at every team around the league, I don’t know if there’s 40 guys who go without a visor. It’s not like when I first came into the league and if you didn’t wear a visor it was a sense of toughness and you’d be willing to fight. Now, it’s maybe smart to try it out.”

Lucic spent the off-season at his house by the beach in Los Angeles with one pit-stop in his hometown Vancouver for a 10-year reunion of the junior Giants 2007 Memorial Cup win, and another sojourn to Hawaii for a wedding. The Vancouver get-together was a highlight for Lucic, who fed off that season after being a second-round draft pick in 2006 by Boston Bruins.