Fansided · Dec 9, 2017
New York Islanders Negative Relationship Between PP and PK
The New York Islanders negative relationship won the special team needs to change going forward. The power play and penalty kill need to be on even footing.
The New York Islanders find themselves third in the Metropolitan division a single point off the top spot in the division. Their power play is clipping at about 21% efficiency, but the penalty kill sits at 30th with a 73.3% efficiency. That negative relationship has to change.
By negative relationship, I mean that when one is performing well the other doesn’t. It’s a term I’m borrowing from statistics. If you remember your Stats 101 courses, a negative relationship describes how one variable goes up while the other goes down.