Player
G/60
P/60
last
GF/60
GA/60
+-/60
last
QC
last
change
QT
last
change
OZ%
last
Scott Parse
1.00
4.01
2.34
6.01
1.00
5.01
1.37
-0.025
-0.054
0.029
0.488
-0.042
0.530
42.9%
56.5%
Anze Kopitar
0.89
2.68
1.94
3.37
1.95
1.42
0.47
0.011
0.016
-0.005
0.172
0.151
0.021
52.2%
51.3%
Justin Williams
0.99
2.57
1.98
3.33
2.28
1.05
0.07
0.023
-0.020
0.043
0.004
0.119
-0.115
50.9%
55.2%
Alec Martinez
0.31
0.77
2.45
1.53
0.92
-0.063
-0.128
52.8%
Peter Harrold
0.28
1.13
0.35
2.54
1.70
0.84
-0.35
-0.053
-0.032
-0.021
-0.288
-0.317
0.029
52.6%
59.3%
Andrei Loktionov
1.06
1.58
2.11
1.32
0.79
-0.004
0.339
52.5%
Dustin Brown
0.91
1.91
1.88
2.87
2.12
0.75
-0.26
0.034
0.035
-0.001
0.207
0.097
0.110
e;">51.0%
55.8%
Drew Doughty
0.26
0.98
1.10
2.99
2.26
0.73
0.76
0.046
0.024
0.022
-0.004
0.096
-0.100
52.7%
56.2%
Ryan Smyth
0.66
1.62
1.79
2.48
2.28
0.20
0.74
0.043
0.008
0.035
0.105
0.114
-0.009
51.9%
57.3%
Alexei Ponikarovsky
0.37
1.11
2.27
1.75
1.57
0.18
0.06
0.042
0.010
0.032
-0.226
0.003
-0.229
52.1%
54.7%
Rob Scuderi
0.09
0.65
0.57
2.25
2.08
0.17
0.62
0.042
0.030
0.012
-0.088
0.163
-0.251
49.4%
47.7%
Matt Greene
0.12
0.65
0.50
1.90
1.84
0.06
0.28
-0.017
-0.044
0.027
-0.041
-0.014
-0.027
48.7%
49.3%
Willie Mitchell
0.24
0.54
0.71
2.50
2.50
0.00
0.71
0.086
0.062
0.024
0.124
-0.058
0.182
45.6%
43.0%
Brayden Schenn
0.00
1.61
2.41
2.41
0.00
-0.096
-0.598
57.6%
Wayne Simmonds
0.79
1.77
2.11
2.01
2.07
-0.06
1.14
0.025
-0.008
0.033
-0.214
0.036
-0.250
49.5%
50.4%
Davis Drewiske
0.00
0.65
0.73
2.08
2.21
-0.13
-0.42
-0.104
-0.050
-0.054
-0.089
-0.007
-0.082
51.1%
52.2%
Jarret Stoll
0.86
1.61
1.65
2.30
2.47
-0.17
0.90
0.045
-0.010
0.055
0.132
-0.123
0.255
48.1%
52.4%
Oscar Moller
0.39
1.54
1.25
1.93
2.31
-0.38
-1.50
0.033
-0.104
0.137
-0.083
-0.273
0.190
51.1%
52.8%
Michal Handzus
0.49
1.17
1.53
1.90
2.33
-0.43
0.06
0.040
-0.015
0.055
-0.112
0.083
-0.195
43.5%
46.1%
Dustin Penner
0.88
1.92
2.40
2.46
3.06
-0.60
0.55
0.039
-0.028
0.067
0.151
-0.013
0.164
49.8%
45.6%
Jack Johnson
0.08
0.50
0.88
2.05
2.68
-0.63
-0.66
0.017
-0.040
0.057
0.084
0.093
-0.009
51.5%
56.1%
Trevor Lewis
0.26
1.15
1.41
2.12
-0.71
-0.069
-0.262
55.0%
Kyle Clifford
0.58
1.17
1.67
2.50
-0.83
-0.027
-0.259
52.7%
Jake Muzzin
0.00
0.45
0.90
1.81
-0.91
-0.133
-0.111
53.8%
Brad Richardson
0.50
1.50
1.69
2.01
3.09
-1.08
0.07
-0.033
-0.005
-0.028
-0.129
0.018
-0.147
53.8%
48.1%
Kevin Westgarth
0.00
0.59
1.58
2.77
-1.19
-0.172
-0.464
56.5%
Dwight King
0.00
0.00
1.72
3.43
-1.71
-0.012
0.389
48.6%
John Zeiler
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.68
-2.68
-0.141
-0.489
75.0%
[for whatever reason, this chart refuses to format properly on the main page; but it's fine if you click through to the full post. Sorry.]
This is the chart (or a piece of the chart anyway -- the whole thing doesn't fit on the page) I will be referencing when I do the individual "player ruminations" over the next week or so. Other people call these types of things "evaluations," but that's pretty presumptuous, even for me.
All stats are from behindthenet.
- G/60 and P/60 are goals and points per 60 minutes of ice-time.
- Any column with the header "last" shows the 2009-10 numbers for the stat shown in the column at the left. For example, P/60 is followed by "last", which, if I had room, I would have typed "P/60 last year."
- The header "change" refers to the difference between the two columns to the immediate left of it.
- GF/60 and GA/60 are abbreviated from behindthenet's GFON/60 and GAON/60, which indicate the number of goals-for (or against, respectively) that player was on the ice for, per 60 minutes of ice-time.
- +-/60 is a player's plus/minus per 60 minutes of ice-time (GF/60 minus GA/60).
- QC is QUALCOMP, which measures quality of competition the player faces.
- QT is QUALTEAM, which measures quality of teammates the player is on the ice with.
- OZ% is Offensive zone starts, which indicates how often player x starts play (after a stoppage) in the offensive zone. This is taken to be a measure of coach's confidence in a player's defensive play (lower % = more confidence).
(Some quick oberservations after the jump)
- Kopitar's and Williams's P/60 each went up more than half a point. Kopitar's +- went up half a goal per 60 and Williams's shot up an entire goal.
- Williams managed this while playing against tougher competition and with weaker teammates than last year. He also was on the ice for more defensive zone face-offs.
- Brown's +- improved slightly, playing with better teammates, but with more defensive zone starts.
- Doughty's P/60 dropped 1/10th of a point per 60; his +- was about the same, but he played against stiffer competition and played with significantly weaker linemates, and he was entrusted with about 4% more defensive zone starts.
- Simmonds saw a small drop in production and a big drop in +-, but he also faced tougher competition while seeing the biggest drop in quality of teammate of any forward (absence of Alex Frolov maybe).
- Scuderi saw an almost identical drop, leading all defensemen (in biggest drop in QUALTEAM).
- Kopitar, Handzus and Stoll all got more defensive zone starts. This was in part a result of protecting Loktionov, Schenn and Lewis ( all centers), but I see that Richardson saw a nearly 6% increase in Ozone starts. Maybe all this has to do entirely w ith protecting the rookies, but it may also be that Murray made a decision to start Richardson as far away from our own net as possible. He's the only player whose OZ% numbers jump like that.
- Johnson's production dipped a little, but he faced much stiffer competition and was trusted to start in the defensive zone almost 5% more. This probably had something to do with the fact that he was paired with Scuderi most of the year.
- Moller saw, by far, the biggest jump in quality of competition -- followed by (in order) Johnson, Handzus, Stoll, Williams, Smyth, Ponikarovsky, Greene and Doughty.
- Richardson, followed by Drewiske and Harrold, saw the biggest drop in QUALCOMP.
- Scuderi and Simmonds saw the biggest drop in QUALTEAM, followed by Poni, Handzus, Richardsons, Williams and Doughty.
- Moller, Loktionov and Schenn all had more or less the same P/60 as Stoll and Smyth.
- Loktionov led the entire team in G/60, followed by Parse, Williams and Brown.
- Parse led everyone with the lowest GA/60, but his sample size was small. So give it to Loktionov, followed by Martinez, Poni, Muzzin, Greene, Kopitar, Simmonds and Scuderi.
- Jarret Stoll was surprisingly bad in GA/60, better than only Clifford, Zeiler and Westgarth among forwards.
- Stingiest defenseman in GA/60? Martinez. Then Muzzin. Then Greene, Scuderi, Drewiske, Doughty, Mitchell and Johnson.