Here are the ten-worst faceoff teams since the NHL started recording data in 1997:
| Team | Season | FO% |
| TAM | 1997-98 | 44.1 |
| PHX | 2008-09 | 44.8 |
| FLA | 1998-99 | 44.9 |
| NYI | 2008-09 | 45.7 |
| ATL | 2002-03 | 45.9 |
| PIT | 2005-06 | 45.9 |
| ATL | 1999-00 | 46.1 |
| ATL | 2000-01 | 46.1 |
| FLA | 2001-02 | 46.1 |
| FLA | 2003-04 | 46.1 |
Atlanta, Florida and Pittsburgh have figured very prominently at the bottom of this list. Let's look at these teams a bit more closely. First, the disaster that was the Tampa Bay Lightning:
| Player | FO | WPCT |
| Paul Ysebaert | 1329 | 45.6 |
| Daymond Langkow | 1128 | 42.9 |
| Darcy Tucker | 585 | 50.9 |
| Mikael Andersson | 479 | 43.4 |
| Jason Bonsignore | 421 | 51.8 |
| Rob Zamuner | 362 | 36.2 |
| Brian Bradley | 270 | 41.1 |
| Vladimir Vujtek | 250 | 37.6 |
| Jeff Toms | 154 | 39.6 |
| Mikael Renberg | 87 | 34.5 |
| Steve Kelly | 83 | 39.8 |
On the top end, this wasn't the worst faceoff team, but from the 6th center down, Tampa was a colossal disaster, winning just 38% over more than 1200 draws.
And last year's Phoenix catastrophe:
| Player | FO | WPCT |
| Martin Hanzal | 1078 | 48.3 |
| Steven Reinprecht | 886 | 46.3 |
| Olli Jokinen | 737 | 42.2 |
| Kyle Turris | 567 | 42.9 |
| Matthew Lombardi | 384 | 50.3 |
| Shane Doan | 362 | 44.2 |
| Daniel Winnik | 138 | 37.0 |
| Kevin Porter | 95 | 29.5 |
| Peter Mueller | 92 | 44.6 |
| Garth Murray | 80 | 45.0 |
| Joel Perrault | 76 | 44.7 |
| Viktor Tikhonov | 60 | 38.3 |
Here the problem was regular centers Olli Jokinen and Kyle Turris. The solution? Get rid of both of them - and Phoenix's faceoff percentage the next season was over 50%.
The Florida Panthers had a more focused problem:
| Player | FO | WPCT |
| Rob Niedermayer | 1895 | 47.1 |
| Kirk Muller | 1157 | 49.1 |
| Viktor Kozlov | 985 | 41.2 |
| Oleg Kvasha | 373 | 28.4 |
| Dave Gagner | 236 | 55.5 |
| Chris Wells | 231 | 40.7 |
| Ray Whitney | 144 | 43.8 |
| Radek Dvorak | 98 | 46.9 |
| Bill Lindsay | 57 | 40.4 |
Viktor Kozlov is bad at faceoffs, but Oleg Kvasha's 28.4% winning percentage is the worst of any regular faceoff taker in our entire database.
Last year' Islanders were terrible at faceoffs, among many other things:
| Player | FO | WPCT |
| Richard Park | 809 | 48.9 |
| Josh Bailey | 807 | 41.1 |
| Frans Nielsen | 758 | 47.2 |
| Doug Weight | 679 | 45.1 |
| Nate Thompson | 429 | 50.3 |
| Mike Comrie | 390 | 41.3 |
| Dean McAmmond | 267 | 47.2 |
| Andy Hilbert | 186 | 38.2 |
| Mike Sillinger | 122 | 58.2 |
| Jeremy Colliton | 70 | 64.3 |
| Bill Guerin | 61 | 44.3 |
| Blake Comeau | 45 | 31.1 |
| Ben Walter | 43 | 41.9 |
Here, the Islanders were incredibly hurt by injuries. Mike Sillinger got hurt just a few games into the season; the gap between him and Josh Bailey was massive, costing the Islanders 200 faceoff wins. Of course, that would have vaulted them up roughly one inconsequential point in the standings.
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