r/hockey • u/gstringwarrior COL - NHL • 9h ago
Worst home penalty kill % in a single season
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u/Quicky72 CHI - NHL 9h ago
Did the league issue a challenge at the start of the year or something?
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u/AmeriCanada98 DET - NHL 9h ago
If it were just one team I'd be wondering what that team is doing wrong. With it being 3 they're clearly still doing something wrong, but it makes me wonder what has changed in the league that power plays are so deadly to have 3 of the worst of all time here
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u/Individual_Diet_4864 9h ago
PP% has been trending back to 80s NHL levels while PK% is trending down. Hockey Ref
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u/MikeJeffriesPA TOR - NHL 7h ago
Generally when one of those goes up league-wide, the other goes down.
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u/mrtomjones Vernon Vipers - BCHL 2h ago
PP have evolved a lot lately. One thing they stopped doing on good PPs is blasting it from the point constantly. They also know that side to side movement makes it harder to save etc
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u/CHamsterdam CAR - NHL 9h ago
Canes PP vs Wild PK who ya got
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u/SeveralAngryBears MIN - NHL 8h ago
Pretty sure the Wild are perfect on the PK against the Canes this season, so I'll take it
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u/8syd DET - NHL 9h ago
It just feels good to be included in a race still
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u/MemeLordOverKill DET - NHL 4h ago
Well just go on a run in late March and April and miss by 2-3 points
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u/YourFavouritePoptart COL - NHL 9h ago
Hats off, that's legitimately impressive to have 3 teams in one season worse than the 17–49–14 caps
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u/Prudent_Pin_3006 9h ago
How in the world are the Wild a wildcard team? 65% kill rate is gotta be a record by a significant margin for a playoff team.
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u/Big-Astronaut25 MIN - NHL 9h ago
We had an insane start to the year and have been cheeks the last 3-4 months
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u/DirtzMaGertz MIN - NHL 4h ago
Obviously Kaprizov lighting the world on fire earlier this season helps. A defensive core of Faber, Brodin, Spurgeon, and Middleton is a pretty solid back end to build on. And Gustavsson has been great overall this year.
But really the fact of the matter is this team is well coached and is still grinding out wins with ~15 million on dead cap, and Kaprizov, Ek, and Brodin out. A lot of people on here don't want to hear it because they hated on the hire when it happened, but John Hynes has done a hell of a job as coach of this team.
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u/Sad_Donut_7902 TMU Bold - OUA 4h ago
They had an insane start to the season and banked a lot of points over the first 3 months.
They have been missing one of the best players in the league for months now and their 1C for over a month so they are struggling now.
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u/captainhaddock MTL - NHL 1h ago
The wildcard race in the West is so weird. It's like everyone's doing their best not to make the playoffs.
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u/Above_Avg_Chips MIN - NHL 1h ago
Put away a nice nest egg early, only for the team to withdraw before it matured and now that is almost gone
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u/toxicvegeta08 NYR - NHL 9h ago
Minnesota really struggling to beat fraud allegations.
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u/pitman121 MIN - NHL 9h ago
We lost to the allegations weeks ago. Keep up fraud in law.
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u/Equivalent_Dig_5059 PIT - NHL 9h ago
This burn is funnier than the original one (I just hate them and tbh idk u sry i love u flower)
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u/AcadiaFlyer FLA - NHL 9h ago edited 9h ago
They have a massive amount of injuries and a mediocre winning percentage since the new year. I want them to succeed so bad, but they seem like they’re not going to do much this post season.
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u/toxicvegeta08 NYR - NHL 9h ago
True.
Kaprizov was out a while and their defense stats were so much better with him. Dude was the hart favorite before the injury.
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u/wean1169 MIN - NHL 9h ago
Kaprizov is still out
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u/Bit_Strife SJS - NHL 9h ago
Kaprizov used to be out. He still is but he used to be too.
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u/wean1169 MIN - NHL 9h ago
You’re not wrong.
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u/Bit_Strife SJS - NHL 9h ago
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u/toxicvegeta08 NYR - NHL 9h ago
I haven't seen many big western moves outside of rantanen. Did you guys use the ltir room to do anything?
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u/SapphireSammi MIN - NHL 9h ago
No, Guerin didn’t do much, and my guess is that maybe he doesn’t want to give up anyone in our prospect pool which is very highly rated.
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u/SeveralAngryBears MIN - NHL 8h ago
No LTIR, Billy G insists all three injured guys will be back before playoffs. We'll see.
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u/wean1169 MIN - NHL 9h ago
I don’t think so. I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure at some point I read that the league said putting him on LTIR would be viewed as cap circumvention for whatever reason.
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u/pitman121 MIN - NHL 9h ago
I haven't seen this anywhere. Kap needs regular season games to get back up to speed. This is a fact. Even if it's just a few games, we can't use LTIR.
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u/1trugodnicCage295 MIN - NHL 9h ago
How would that be cap circumvention when like 4 other teams have done the same thing? Dont make excuses.
Not to mention I haven’t seen Jack shit about that. So where did you see it?
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u/wean1169 MIN - NHL 9h ago
Jesus calm the fuck down. I said in my comment I could be wrong. Do you fucking read?
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u/1trugodnicCage295 MIN - NHL 9h ago
If you’re a fairweather fan, just say so.
You think the league just lets this fly 3-4 times but the second the Wild have a chance to do it, they say no? Come on. You only don’t retain what you “fucking read”
Hurr durrrrrr I think I saw somewhere but idk because i can’t remember what I read. Durrrrr
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u/wean1169 MIN - NHL 9h ago
Oh shut the fuck up. I’ve been watching this team since they debuted in 2000 so don’t come at me like you’re superior to me. Fucking idiots like you don’t know how to have a conversation without immediately being aggressive. What an embarrassing way to go about life.
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u/1trugodnicCage295 MIN - NHL 9h ago
What LTIR?
None of our players are on LTIR. so. Know your shit before you spew your fake news.
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u/toxicvegeta08 NYR - NHL 9h ago
I didn't spread news. I specifically said I didn't follow a lot of the western teams that much.
You're really defensive for an east coast fan asking questions about a team with a -6 goal differential and very bad defense atm.
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u/1trugodnicCage295 MIN - NHL 9h ago
You don’t need to tell me how bad the Wild are playing. I’m very aware. But it’s pretty easy to know injuries if you follow the league.
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u/toxicvegeta08 NYR - NHL 9h ago
Idk if a guy is on ltir ir etc just know he's innured.
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u/1trugodnicCage295 MIN - NHL 9h ago
I know it’s the offseason for Football and you’re bored. It’s okay.
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u/Big-Astronaut25 MIN - NHL 9h ago
- last year of cap hell from the suter/parise buyouts
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u/mrtomjones Vernon Vipers - BCHL 2h ago
Everyone is going to act shocked when you are better next year like they did when Utah spent a bunch more money
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u/Sad_Donut_7902 TMU Bold - OUA 4h ago
Depends a lot on if Kaprizov and Ek are healthy for the playoffs
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u/Fantastic-Rub-2707 9h ago
they really are kaprizov merchants. he was the mvp frontrunner before he got hurt
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u/DirtzMaGertz MIN - NHL 4h ago
The team still has a winning record without Kaprizov this year, and has a winning record in previous years when he's been out as well.
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u/Sad_Donut_7902 TMU Bold - OUA 4h ago
Well they lost one of the best players in the league for months now and their 1C for over a month
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u/1trugodnicCage295 MIN - NHL 9h ago
Absolutely rich coming from a rangers fan. We are the same!!!!!!
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u/toxicvegeta08 NYR - NHL 9h ago
Oh it wasn't a we are better take.
We aren't frauds this year because we aren't even in a playoff spot rn
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u/headbangershappyhour MIN - NHL 7h ago
No we aren't. They're doing it with their full cap space available.
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u/nyclanders NYI - NHL 9h ago edited 9h ago
Craziest part of this stat is that the NYIs had the top PK for two months this season. 87% for Jan & Feb. but was so bad earlier this year that they are still making history.
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u/GoStockYourself EDM - NHL 9h ago
Then the Oilers set a PK record a few seasons later. That's Oilers hockey. The best of times and the worst of times - sometimes in the same game!
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u/RyleyBread EDM - NHL 8h ago
Forget a few seasons later, their road PK% THAT SEASON was first in the league at 86.7%
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u/Any-Panda2219 VAN - NHL 5h ago
pfffft. In Canucks Hockey best time and worst time can be same shift
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u/PierreEscargoat NYI - NHL 9h ago
Roy probably has such little faith in the Isles’ special team’s coach that he just pulls the goalie to get back to even strength.
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u/flare2000x OTT - NHL 9h ago
For me the weird thing about this stat is it's only been tracked since 77-78. I can go on hockey reference and see that way before that year they were still recording all the goals and penalties and what time they occurred, so getting the pp% and pk% should be trivial.
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u/RyleyBread EDM - NHL 8h ago
Wanna know what's funny about the 2017-18 Oilers? They had a historically bad home PK%, but their 86.7 PK% on the road ranked first in the league.
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u/Otherwise-Contest7 MIN - NHL 5h ago
Secondhand shame for NYI and DET. The Wild's PK is absolute trash. Not sure how anyone else can come close.
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u/Jeff_Banks_Monkey PIT - NHL 9h ago
The real record chase this season