Wild coach Mike Yeo will have a very similar team next season as he did last season.

So does that mean he’ll make changes to the construction of the team’s power play, which finished 27th in the 30-team league?

Not exactly.

Even with a poor performance from the team’s man-advantage unit last season, Yeo said he’ll likely enter training camp with the same players on the top power play and the same coach, Andrew Brunette, working with the top unit.

That could irk some fans who want to see young defenseman Matt Dumba take Ryan Suter’s spot on the point, and young center Mikael Granlund take Mikko Koivu’s spot in the top group.

“To expect that we’re just going to start with somebody like Suter on the second unit I think is unrealistic,” Yeo said. “He’s still a premier defenseman in the National Hockey League. By his standards, he’ll be the first one to admit that he didn’t have as good a year as he has had in the past. And I’ll be the first to admit from the start of training camp, from Day 1, that you would expect to see him on the top unit of the power play.

“Now, does that mean that people can’t take over that role or take over that position or challenge him in certain areas? For sure (they can). We’re going to have more competition next year, and we’re going to be more focused on having two groups — more of a 1A and a 1B as opposed to a 1 and a 2.”

The power play ranked 16th among 30 teams two seasons ago, when Yeo gave more power play responsibility to Brunette, and less to assistant Darryl Sydor. Yeo stood behind Brunette this week and said he’d return in the same capacity despite the 27th-ranked power play.

“He does a great job,” Yeo said. “I know the numbers didn’t reflect that, but with another year under his belt, and with some of the things that we learned about our group and the way some guys are stepping up, we expect it to be better next year — and we think it will be.”

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