COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Blue Jackets are tired of talking about the players who left last summer as free agents, and the fans are (mostly) done reading about them, too.



But it’s impossible to explore the Blue Jackets’ new-look power play without noting that Artemi Panarin is no longer a permanent resident of the left faceoff circle, and that late-season addition Matt Duchene is no longer taking the faceoffs and working the wheel.



It might be a stretch to say the Blue Jackets have completely disassembled and rebuilt their much-maligned power play over the summer, but they did install — by necessity — some new parts.



“(Early in training camp), if you were trying to figure out who was on the power play, you would have been thoroughly confused,” said Blue Jackets assistant coach Brad Larsen, who has come under significant criticism during the past two years as the unit has tumbled from 12th in the NHL (in 2016-17) to 25th...