One-Man Penalty-Kills

A little while back, I looked at which players had been on the ice for the highest percentage of their teams' power-play goals. The dual is obviously which players have been on the ice for the highest percentage of power-play goals against. The top ten list isn't likely to bring back a lot of great memories:

Player	Team	Season	SH-	Tm SHGA	SH%
Lorne Henning	NYI	1977-78	41	45	91.1
Andre Boudrias	MNS	1967-68	26	29	89.7
Charlie Burns	MNS	1970-71	49	55	89.1
Craig Ramsey	BUF	1973-74	37	42	88.1
Ed Westfall	NYI	1975-76	48	55	87.3
Barry Long	DET	1979-80	55	64	85.9
Guy Lapointe	MTL	1976-77	24	28	85.7
Lew Morrison	ATF	1972-73	41	48	85.4
Bill Collins	MNS	1968-69	35	41	85.4
J.C. Tremblay	MTL	1967-68	29	34	85.3

Over the last decade, the list is dominated by Scott Stevens, and by various seasons (NSH and FLA 2008-09, DAL 2001-02) where coaches decided to rely very heavily on one defensive pair:

Player	Team	Season	SH-	Team SH	SH%
Stevens	NJD	1999-00	32	39	82.1
Stevens	NJD	2002-03	26	32	81.3
Pandolfo	NJD	2006-07	31	40	77.5
Zanon	NSH	2008-09	45	59	76.3
Matvichuk	DAL	1999-00	25	33	75.8
Hamhuis	NSH	2008-09	44	59	74.6
Lidstrom	DET	2002-03	41	55	74.5
Norstrom	LAK	2002-03	45	62	72.6
Hatcher	PHI	2006-07	47	65	72.3
Stevens	NJD	2001-02	31	43	72.1
Stevens	NJD	2000-01	35	49	71.4
Hatcher	DAL	2001-02	42	59	71.2
Matvichuk	DAL	2001-02	42	59	71.2
Madden	NJD	2006-07	28	40	70.0
Madden	NJD	2005-06	44	63	69.8
Chelios	DET	2001-02	33	48	68.8
Bouwmeester	FLA	2008-09	37	54	68.5
Skrastins	FLA	2008-09	37	54	68.5
Richardson	CBJ	2002-03	41	60	68.3
Houlder	NSH	2001-02	34	50	68.0

Overall – and this should be self-explanatory – nobody can play as much on the PK as they can on the PP. Killing penalties is simply too physically-demanding.

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