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Philadelphia Flyers Penalty Kill Analysis, Part 4: Recommendations for 2016-17

Through three days, we learned more about the Flyers' penalty kill tactics, and determined which were most efficient in terms of preventing shots and goals. What changes can Philadelphia make to the PK to improve next year?

This is part four of a four-part series by Charlie O'Connor describing and evaluating the penalty kill of the Philadelphia Flyers in 2015-16. In Part One, we outlined and defined the different formations that the Flyers' penalty kill used in their forechecking and defensive zone strategies. Part Two delved into the manually-tracked forechecking metrics.