Sticking to the weekly odd-man scoping. NHL Special Teams Index through yesterday’s games. Click through to last week’s post to see how your favorite team fared over seven days.

This week’s results include two STI Number ties: The ‘Canes and Oilers with 101.7, and the Preds and Kings with 96.8. Insofar as these things matter, I’m going to break such ties by going with the higher-ranked power-play unit; and in the even that that’s a tie, the higher-ranked penalty-kill. I’m crossing my fingers that this doesn’t crop up too much most weeks, or — horrors of horrors — we end up with three- or four-way ties.