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Originally Posted by Anduril
They were bad last year but they aren't the catastrophe that they are right now.
For example, the lowest historical PP% is shared by the 98 Lightning and 01 Wild at 9.3% source
The Flames are currently 8.4% Obviously a small sample size still with a little less than 3/4th's of the season to go, but the Flames have never finished the season below 12.1% . Even last year's PP was a mediocre 17%.
You are correct in that the PK last year wasn't very good as it's not much different than it is now. 72.2% so far this season versus 75.5% last season, both lowest in franchise history.
Some shallow stats but I think this just continues to highlight how much of a black hole special team, powerplay especially has been for this team thus far this season. We can say "if we had league average", we'd be in a different place and that'd probably be true.
Problem is, this team doesn't even know how to be below league average with the man advantage. |
That 17% should have an asterisk beside it too. The power play was terrible for the first half of the season and really only starting to improve after they were already out of the running