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Do Special Teams Matter?

Japers' Rink found this 11/16/2008 on peerlessprognosticator.blogspot.com

Well, you'd think they would, just intuitively. But over our morning coffee we took a quick look at the "Index of Specialness" -- the sum of a team's power play effectiveness and that of its penalty kill, and what we found was that 15 of the top 20 teams in the index were in the top eight of ...