That Ponikarovsky is awesome.

Of all the stat breakdowns you’ve done, this is a big favourite of mine.

That Semin differential is incredible. Same with Brassard when you consider he’s a rookie.

It’s funny, but I don’t think the goals dried up when Koivu got hurt in Montreal (both for and against), although the numbers would seem to suggest otherwise. I thought there was a bigger switch to low scores when Komisarek was hurt than any other player. That Andrei Kostitsyn has such a high event rating (and positive by a full goal) while having a subpar year in terms of production is quite something.

Love does stats, but why haven’t you just made GFON/60 – GAON/60, to get what I can call a “plus-minus events ON/ 60” or “positive events”:
for example Semin with 5.11 (GFON/60) and 1.49 (GAON/60) makes him have a score of 3.62, and maybe puts on the top list for a “+/- events ON / 60”

Though that should be interresting, and that should be a way to see good events players.
Good job with those numbers

Still if a team is down in a game a stat like this can indicate who the team should put on the ice to make something happen (even if the gamble doesn’t alaways work out)

Who are the low-event players of the league? Goons, mostly, (Brashear, Orr, Ivanans, Cote, etc.) although there are some checkers (Donovan, Maltby, Holik, Axelsson, etc.) and defensive defenders (Volchenkov) down below 3.5 goals per 60 minutes, too. When they’re on the ice, head to the beer fridge.

That’s really what this list is about, isn’t it? :-)

Yeah, I’m sure I’m stating the obvious here, but, readers should not forget to take these figures with a grain of salt (common sense is always required). A decent chunk of these players are on the list due simply to luck… sometimes you go through stretches where they just go in, that applies at both ends. No one should look at this and go, “Wow, Craig Conroy has incorporated a lot more chaos into his game this season!”

The prototypical high-event player on the list is probably Letang or Phaneuf (I believe Marc-Andre Bergeron and Vinny Lecavalier are the patron saints of High Event results). D-men who will pinch in high risk/reward situations, forwards who go on the jailbreak when it looks like a teammate has possession, etc.

That said, the spread from top to bottom over long periods of time between players is not as big as one might think, certainly nothing in the same ballpark as Goals or Shots. When we had that chat (~8 games into the season), the Shoot% while Giordano was on the ice was 15.1% and the SV% behind him was .800, both of which are absurd. Sure enough, since that day, the numbers are 7.9% and 0.915.