In the NHL, special teams play for, on average, 9:48 of a game or around 16% of it.
Teams deploy units for each specific situation and typically these units are almost always composed of different players. However, there are a handful of players that are regulars on the ice whether a man-up or a man-down.
There were only 32 players last season that played at least 100 minutes on the penalty kill and power play and the Hurricanes had two of them: Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teravainen.
Elite, complete players are a rare commodity in today’s game.