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Originally Posted by tcblcommish
lol, you are right. I'm not sure now. The ES line say IT but the others say IT%. Now I'm confused.  |
It looks to me like they have even strength lines going by time per game, while special teams are a percentage of the special situation (powerplay, penalty kill, or 4-on-4). In that screenshot, the first line will play about 22 minutes of the game, while the first powerplay line, for example, will get 75% of the ice time on a powerplay.
As for the name of this distribution, I have to agree with tcblcommish. I think calling it "Time on Ice" would draw too much of a parallel to the actual TOI stat, and people may think it's an absolute setting; that what they set is exactly what that line will play, and then complain when it doesn't necessarily work out that way.