Through the first half of the season, the Calgary Flames have been a weirdly inconsistent team.
For an illustration of what we mean by “inconsistent,” we dug into the team’s special teams progress and processes this season. The aim of power plays is to score goals and of penalty kills is to prevent them – those are the results, but the processes are just as important. So we dug into the scoring chances that the Flames’ special teams units are producing or preventing.
The numbers are fairly mixed.
Season at a glance
Scoring chances per 60, rolling five-game average:
The above graphic depicts Scoring Chances Generated Per 60 Minutes by the power play (blue line) and Scoring Chances Allowed Per 60 Minutes by the penalty kill (orange line).