Power-Play is Important; How strong is the correlation to winning? Every educated hockey fan knows just how important having a strong power-play is. The question is “how important?” Last season I was fascinated by the fact that the Boston Bruins, a team that had the leagues’ worst power-play percentage during

In our “Special Teams Saturday” piece today, we discussed the piss poor Edmonton Oilers penalty-kill unit. In this article we will break down, with screenshots from the game, the Washington Capitals pin-point precision against the sloppy Oilers penalty-kill from Monday October 14th.[am4show have=’p3;p4;p7;p9;’ guest_error=’Front Office’ user_error=’Front Office’ ] In addition

Today is the day of the week that we look across the league and track the success rate of the special teams units, and the members of those units for each team. However, this week we will specifically just look at the top units because sample sizes are small right

It’s early in the season and overreactions are pouring in from fan bases across the National Hockey League. The best thing to do at this juncture is to look at actual game-tape since stats can be incredibly deceiving in such small sample sizes. Since today is “Special Teams Saturday”, we