When the goals go in

by James Mirtle on Oct 27, 2008 11:58 AM CDT Comment 4 comments

Gabe Desjardins has been doing a nice job keeping Behind The Net updated even through the early portion of the schedule, so be sure to stop by there and check out his hard work.

One of the interesting metrics I always like to look at is goals against per 60 minutes of even strength ice time. Here are the 25 players who have been on the ice for the most goals against per minute so far (min. four games played):

	NAME	Pos	TM	GP	TOI	QLCMP	GF	GA	GF/60	GA/60	+/-
1	F. BRUNNSTROM	RW	DAL	7	10.48	-0.22	3	9	2.45	7.36	-6
2	T. PREISSING	D	L.A	5	11.55	-0.19	2	7	2.08	7.27	-5
3	J. ARNOTT	C	NSH	5	11.78	0.33	5	7	5.09	7.13	-2
4	J. DUMONT	RW	NSH	8	12.92	0.28	10	12	5.80	6.96	-2
5	B. SOPEL	D	CHI	6	11.94	-0.01	2	8	1.68	6.70	-6
6	D. ARMSTRONG	C	L.A	7	8.20	0.27	1	6	1.05	6.28	-5
7	R. PARK	C	NYI	5	9.84	-0.05	3	5	3.66	6.10	-2
8	D.GAUTHIER	D	L.A	7	13.12	-0.10	4	9	2.61	5.88	-5
9	M. GIORDANO	D	CGY	8	10.21	-0.13	8	8	5.87	5.87	0
10	P. HORNQVIST	LW	NSH	7	11.88	0.38	4	8	2.89	5.77	-4
11	K. BIEKSA	D	VAN	5	14.98	0.26	6	7	4.81	5.61	-1
12	M. SCHNEIDER	D	ATL	7	15.28	-0.01	4	10	2.24	5.61	-6
13	D. HALE	D	PHX	7	12.25	-0.27	3	8	2.10	5.60	-5
14	K. OKPOSO	RW	NYI	5	10.72	-0.07	2	5	2.24	5.60	-3
15	F. MODIN	LW	CBJ	5	12.88	0.33	2	6	1.86	5.59	-4
16	J. MITCHELL	C	TOR	8	8.09	0.18	1	6	0.93	5.56	-5
17	R. BRIND'AMOUR	C	CAR	6	14.53	0.56	2	8	1.38	5.51	-6
18	N. FOLIGNO	LW	OTT	8	11.31	-0.15	2	8	1.33	5.31	-6
19	A. MURRAY	C	CBJ	8	11.35	0.21	3	8	1.98	5.29	-5
20	B. MORROW	LW	DAL	9	13.13	-0.22	8	10	4.06	5.08	-2
21	S. OTT	C	DAL	4	9.13	0.11	1	3	1.64	4.93	-2
22	A. AUCOIN	D	CGY	8	10.73	0.02	2	7	1.40	4.89	-5
23	M. METHOT	D	CBJ	4	12.26	0.25	2	4	2.45	4.89	-2
24	D. BOYD	C	CGY	7	8.79	0.01	1	5	0.98	4.88	-4
25	A. MCDONALD	C	STL	7	14.11	0.04	3	8	1.82	4.86	-5

You can see why the Stars were a bit hesitant to put Brunnstrom into prime time action. Even only playing less than 11 minutes at even strength a night in just seven games, Brunnstrom has seen nine goals go in his own net so far this season despite playing against relatively easy opposition.

Also in trouble defensively so far are a couple of Kings defencemen, which isn't a surprise, Nashville's top line of Hornqvist-Arnott-Dumont, and quite a few other young players like Okposo on Long Island, John Mitchell in Toronto, Foligno in Ottawa, and Murray and Methot Man in Columbus.

Andy McDonald, one of the NHL's scoring leaders to this point, has not been strong at even strength.

Giordano's the only player who's not a minus in this group. There are a lot of goals going in both nets when he's out there.

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