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Originally Posted by MarkGio
I disagree. I would argue more faceoffs take place on special teams than continuous 5 on 5, relative to minutes. Think about it, a penalty killing team ices the puck a lot, whereas a power play team has more shots (proportionally) on net than 5 on 5, which results in more goalie held whistles.
So there's a concentration of whistles on special teams relative to 5 on 5.
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Absolutely whistles occur more often on the PK.
But again, if the best team in the league at faceoffs only averages 3 more wins per game, they will not all occur on the PK.
If your average game has 60 faceoffs, an average of 20 will need to occur while the Flames are on the PK before they can expect to win one extra faceoff that they wouldn't have won if they were bad.
The Flames aren't taking anything close to 20 faceoffs a game on the penalty kill.