Special Teams Evaluations & Trends, Part Two: Penalty Kill

Neville E. Guard-USA TODAY SportsThe second part of our two-part series examining the historical context of the epic collapse of the Predators' special teams units this past playoff run (with some suggestions for improvement).

In part one of this series, we examined the Predators' power play performance in the playoffs in all of its putrescence. If you haven't read part one of this series, you might want to do that first.

Today we will take a look at the other half of the Preds' special teams: the penalty kill. While the Preds power play was busy wasting opportunities, scoring only four goals in 46 opportunities, the penalty kill did a terrible job at preventing opportunities for opposing…