Comments on: Official benefits: How NHL teams have been drawing and taking penalties since the lockout

By: James O'Brien

James O'Brien — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:19:41 +0000

Thanks for catching that.

By: quizguy66

quizguy66 — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:21:47 +0000

“The Panthers had the worst relationship, but the most interesting/disturbing part is that most of the damage was done in the last two seasons (-209 disparity between 09-10 and 10-11). ”

Um, unless the chart has the wrong headers, the Panthers were -209 in the FIRST 2 years after the lockout 05-06 and 06-07.

I am now a bit less worried about DeBoer (unless of course, you know, those headers are wrong).

-QG

By: quizguy66

quizguy66 — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:44:34 +0000

As a side note, I’m now terrified of what’s going to happen penalty-wise for my Devils given that they’ve just hired the Panthers former coach!

-QG

By: quizguy66

quizguy66 — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:43:15 +0000

Totally not surprised that the Devils were last in both Power Play opportunities as well as Power Plays against. Woulda bet $ on it before even seeing the stats. I go to a ton of Devils games and penalty-free periods are the rule more than the exception it seems.

For all the complaints about the Devils “ruining” hockey with the trap, we’ve always played clean in terms of clutching and grabbing (see Florida for the opposite example) and these numbers bear that out. I’ve always thought the lack of penalties committed by the Devils has hurt us in terms of infractions called against the other team (the dreaded “evening out” as it were). For the hell of it, I looked at the correlation between PF and PA in the above table and found a +.21 positive correlation (basically meaningless).

I would be curious what the distribution of penalties called across all games – to see how often teams get the same number close to the same number of power plays.

-QG

By: polegojim

polegojim — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:16:03 +0000

No conspiracy at all James.

Red Wings explanation is clear – +91 in special teams opps; #5 in league in producing PP opps….but #23 in goals against ave. That’s the disparity.

Their +91 opps had to make up for their weakness at even strength 5:5 defense and goal tending. Howard had a weak season – #5 in record but #36 in goals against. Wings offense had to rescue weaker D and Goal-tending.

Jimmy’s coming into his own and performed better in the playoffs. 2011-12 he’ll return to 2.20 ave.

By: derpdederpdederp

derpdederpdederp — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:56:01 +0000

interesting post, but I would also like to know which referees are calling the most minor penalties. with guys like Kerry Fraser retiring it’s hard to know which officials to groan about when you hear they’re officiating your team’s game