Taking a Look at the Rangers Penalty Kill

This article was ideally supposed to be up before the season started, but it took a bit longer than I hoped. If you haven’t seen the first piece of this series, focusing on Rangers power play, you can find it here. In this article I’ll be taking an in-depth look at the Rangers penalty kill from last year using data that I collected from the playoffs last year.

Here are diagrams of a few of the formations that will be discussed:

Terms & Notes:

-Suc% = The percentage of entries that were successful

-Control% = The percentage of entries that were controlled

-# Pass = The number of passes completed before entering the zone

-InForm% = The percentage of how many times the team successfully got into formation in the offensive zone

-Time into Form = The total time it took to get into formation in the offensive zone

-Time to 1st SA = The total time it took for the offensive team to register their first shot attempt

-Time in Zone = The total time the offensive team spent in the zone

-SA = Average shot attempts per entry

-SC = Average scoring chances per entry

-S = Average shots per entry

*Stats are for how the opponent performed against the forecheck*

PK Forecheck