I agree. Half of our best PK unit left. That left a massive hole that is yet to be filled.
Role players can be more important to a team than just being labelled "bottom 6/bottom pairing scrubs".
But, it's done and over with. We need to work on a solution now.
We have 4 SHG though.
60 pp's 13 goals. 0 shorties against.
66 pk's. 16 goals. 4 shorties for.
On special teams we have been shorthanded 6 more times then advantaged.
Overall we are a +1 goals for overall on both special teams.
I think it is basically a wash and we are just average at most things as a team. It early too, so statistically we are unlikely to stay as poor as 75.8 pct pk over a longer sample size.
I think we miss Condra a bit on the PK...now... But that it is not too big a deal and later this season we won't really miss him much at all.
Not something I worry about for this team. I worry most about the defence past the top pairing. Mostly because they can't play the puck out of the defensive end well. Everytime I see Wideman I want to see him play more....