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In at least this week’s final chapter on the importance of special teams scoring in today’s NLL (see PP vs SH, Special Teams = Cups, 08’s Chart Toppers) we’re going beyond just 2008’s digits and tracking back a few years to determine who not only some of the league’s best special teams scorers are, but since I appreciate the guys that do their thing 5v5, we’ll also take a look at the best even strength scorers too.

Just like earlier in the week, we’re looking at what percentage of a guy’s goal totals come from those two areas, not simply just a tally of what they’ve done over the years. We went as far back as 2005’s numbers.

Any guesses on who’ll lead in either category? Find out after the jump.

Only guys with 40 or more goals over the past four seasons were included in the rundown. And the definition of the numbers beside the special teams scorers means total goals / power play goals / short handed goals / percentage of goals scored in special teams situations.

Top Special Teams Scorers

Mike McLellan – 60 / 35 / 1 / 60.00%
Kelly Hall – 75 / 37 /1 / 52.00%
Chris Gill – 89 / 44 / 1 / 51.69%
Cory Bomberry – 78 / 36 / 3 / 48.72%
Peter Morgan – 81 / 34 / 3 / 46.91%
Dean Hill – 47 / 22 / 1 / 46.81%
Mike Accursi – 93 / 35 / 8 / 46.24%
Shawn Williams – 125 / 52 / 9 / 45.60%
Sean Pollock – 75 / 30 / 0 / 44.00%
Chris Panos – 46 / 20 / 0 / 43.48%
Jamie Shewchuk – 53 / 23 / 2 / 43.40%
Jason Wulder – 70 / 30 / 1 / 42.86%
Dan Stroup – 103 / 43 / 1 / 42.72%
Josh Sanderson – 120 / 49 / 4 / 42.50%
Gavin Prout – 112 / 37 / 8 / 40.18%
Keith Cromwell – 48 / 17 / 39.58%

The even strength studs extra info below simply are total goals / even strength goals / percentage of goals scored even strength, all from over the past four seasons too.

Top Even Strength Scorers

Kyle Goundrey – 44 / 37 / 84.09%
Jake Bergey – 94 / 79 / 84.04%
Kevin Fines – 47 / 39 / 82.98%
Shawn Evans – 78 / 64 / 82.05%
Kevin Dostie – 72 / 58 / 80.56%
Scott Stewart – 46 / 37 / 80.43%
Jason Crosbie – 60 / 48 / 80.00%
Mark Steenhuis – 127 / 101 / 79.53%
Richard Morgan – 48 / 38 / 79.17%
Jonas Derks – 62 / 49 / 79.03%
AJ Shannon – 59 / 46 / 77.97%
Jason Clark – 48 / 37 / 77.08%
Josh Sims – 50 / 38 / 76.00%
Chad Culp – 74 / 56 / 75.68%
Luke Wiles – 73 / 55 / 75.34%
Ryan Benesch – 52 / 39 / 75.00%

And since the top short handed scorers got kinda lost in the shuffle, below are the top man-down scorers over the last four years, with just the amount of short handed markers they’ve posted over that time.

Top Short Handed Scorers

John Grant 14
Steve Toll 11
Jeff Zywicki 10
Josh Sims 9
Mark Steenhuis 9
Mike Accursi 8
Gavin Prout 8
Scott Evans 8
Pat Maddalena 8
John Tavares 8
Bill McGlone 8
Jeff Moleski 7
Dan Dawson 7
Chris Seller 7

Does your team have ball players off these lists? Does it matter?

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