How have the Flames’ special teams changed from last season?

Over the course of the 40 games the Flames played at the end of 2018, they have registered a powerplay with a 21.1% success rate, and a penalty kill at 79.2%, both hovering around league average. It’s a far cry from their 16.0% powerplay through the 2017-18 season, but not quite so from their 81.8% penalty kill that year.

Let’s take a quick look at who the Flames have used through the first half of this season for their much-improved powerplay, and slightly lessened penalty kill.

Powerplay

Here are the stats of the Flames’ 10 most frequently used players on the powerplay from the first half of this season and the entirety of last season, ordered by ice time. Rates data via Natural Stat Trick.

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