St. Louis Blues Player Usage Chart
We just hit the halfway point in this shortened season. So what better way to kick off a weekly stats column than by putting together a St. Louis Blues Player Usage Chart?
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Meet the 2012-12 Syracuse Crunch: Forwards
The NHL may be locked out, but there's still hockey to be had. The Syracuse Crunch, the Lightning's American Hockey League affiliate began training camp on Friday, Sept. 28 and will be playing...
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Sometimes someone in the stat community comes out with something that should be so obvious, it's...
Sometimes someone in the stat community comes out with something that should be so obvious, it's right in front of your face, but no one has done it before. This is what Eric T from our SB Nation sister site Broad Street Hockey as well as the new NHL Numbers blog has done. What you see in this image is a usage chart of Montreal Canadiens forwards, separated by quality of competition based on the ice time of the opponents each player faces. The really excellent thing about it is that he's separated the forwards a player faces from the defensemen. I'll let Eric explain his methodology by linking his original piece, while you can also check out the usage charts Eric posted today for all 30 teams here. One of the things that stood out to me was how much better this makes the top line from last year look. Desharnais faced tougher competition that Toronto's Mikhail Grabovski for example. However the most impressive thing to me was how tightly Pacioretty and Cole were checked. Any reservations we had about Max Pacioretty being able to handle tough minutes can likely be put to rest.
Lightning numbers: Evaluating the Lightning's new defensemen
We examine the statistics that new Lightning defensemen Sami Salo and Matt Carle put up in 2011-12 and compare them to the Lightning's 2011-12 defense corps.
One kind of year-end review: by the numbers
One kind of year end review for the Tampa Bay Lightning: how did they do by the numbers?
Who Deserves the Calder Trophy? A Comparison of Forwards
The PHWA picked the three highest-scoring rookie forwards as their finalists. Was that the right decision?
Advanced Stats Primer: Or, what we know and how we know it
A primer on advanced hockey statistics.
More To The Sam Gagner vs. Chosen Line Comparisons
Gagner vs. the golden children
How Does Tom Renney Use His Forwards?
Tom Renney broke up his veteran line to hold up his younger lines.
How Should the 2011-12 New Jersey Devils Match Against Tough Competition at Forward?
Over the past few seasons, the New Jersey Devils have started to match their top forward line against the opposition's best players, moving away from a checking line. Given the current roster, I look at the past Devils forwards by quality of competition and see whether they should go back to a checking line or not.
