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A look at Special Teams and their production
Special teams and who are effective with them play a critical role for any team in a hockey season. That of course means taking penalties and killing them while taking advantage of teams who have a difficult time staying out of the “sin bin”. Entering the final 1/3 of the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League’s Regular season, we are going to take a look at teams who are playing disciplined hockey and being rewarded for it. The following is a list of the 11 League Teams and the penalty minutes they have totalled along with the average number of minutes they are getting per game.
- Sackville Blazers — 295 Penalty Minutes or 15.52 minutes a game
- Antigonish — 332 Penalty Minutes or 16.6 minutes a game
- Port Hawkesbury — 370 Penalty Minutes — 16.81 minutes a game
- Pictou — 342 minutes or 17.1 minutes a game
- Capstone — 378 Penalty Minutes or 18.9 a game
- Membertou — 395 Penalty Minutes or 19.75 a game
- East Hants — 406 Penalty Minutes or 20.3 a game
- Eskasoni — 407 Penalty Minutes or 20.35 a game
- Valley Maple Leafs — 430 Penalty Minutes or 23.88 a game
- South Shore Lumberjacks — 471 Penalty Minutes or 26.16 minutes a game
- Brookfield Elks — 575 Penalty Minutes or 30.26 minutes a game.
Penalty killers playing extraordinarily while handcuffed are the Antigonish Bulldogs who have killed 92% of the Penalties assessed against them. East Hants has killed off 91% of their penalties and the Colts are third in penalty killing percentages, killing off 90% of what they have been assessed. The following are percentages of power-play and penalty killing done by teams:
PK % OF Killing off Power Play Efficiency
1. Sackville Blazers 80% 19%
2. Antigonish 92% 19%
3. Port Hawkesbury 84% 15%
4. Pictou 80% 21%
5. Capstone Colts 90% 22%
6. Membertou Jr. Miners 75% 13%
7. East Hants 91% 21%
8. Eskasoni 80% 11%
9. Valley Maple Leafs 80% 14%
10. South Shore Lumberjacks 77% 18%
11. Brookfield Elks 52% 21%
Teams with Most Power-Play Goals
1. East Hants — 25
2. Pictou — 20
3. Sackville — 19
4. Capstone — 19
5. Antigonish - 17
6. Brookfield — 15
7. Port Hawkesbury — 14
8. South Shore — 14
9. Valley Maple Leafs — 10
10. Eskasoni Jr. Eagles — 10
11. Membertou — 5
Teams with Most Short-Handed Goals:
1. Sackville — 5
2. Antigonish — 3
3. Port Hawkesbury — 3
4. Valley Maple Leafs — 3
5. East Hants — 2
6. Capstone — 2
7. Brookfield — 2
8. Eskasoni — 2
9. South Shore Lumberjacks — 1
10. Membertou — 1
11. Pictou County Scotians — 1