^More than pretty high; it would have been the best 5v5 save percentage in the entire league last year.
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Originally Posted by Imported_Aussie
even if there is some regression closer to the norm, they are so far above the norm with that save % that there must be some other factors besides "luck" at play
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It's possible, but it's also possible that it really is just an anomaly. Take another example; the Columbus Blue Jackets are 32% on the power play so far this year. That would be a new record, and would be about seven percentage points clear of any team we've seen in the past decade (more, if you don't count "teams that have Alex Ovechkin on them").
Do you think that's likely to come screaming back down to Earth as the season wears on, or do you think they're really that much better on the PP than all of those teams? Think about who they've got on the power play, what seems more likely?