A Brief Intro To The Corsi Number
by J.P. on Oct 11, 2008 11:22 AM EDT
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For those of you unfamiliar with the Corsi Number (or Rating) as a hockey metric, there's a good discussion of it here and here, but, simply put, it measures the number of shots directed at net while a player was on the ice at even strength, excluding empty net situations.For example, if Player A skates a shift in which he takes a shot that misses the net, his teammate then puts one on goal and another teammate blocks a shot at the other end before the end of Player A's shift, Player A will have a +1 Corsi Rating for that shift. To put it in context, Henrik Zetterberg had the League's best Corsi Rating a season ago (the Caps top line was also quite good), and a bunch of Thrashers were at the bottom. Basically it's another tool in the analytical arsenal to guage a player's even strength effectiveness. Got it? Good.
We'll be looking at the Corsi Number throughout the year, but here are the Corsi Ratings from last night's game. A few things jump out:
- The Mike Green-Shaone Morrisonn pairing's combined +17 is quite good (and it's worth noting that the two were the team's top two in even strength ice time).
- The Jeff Schultz-Milan Jurcina pairing's combined -10 is pretty bad (and it's worth noting that Jurcina got the least ES ice time of any blueliner - had he gotten more ice...
). - The fourth line was a combined +14, the third (Michael Nylander) line was -3,the top line was +3, and the Alex Semin line was +12 - having the last line change paid off for Atlanta, as Ilya Kovalchuk matched up against the Nylander line and Schultz pairing more often than any others.
- The Caps dominated the game at even strength, with a combined +53 rating.
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For Capitals Mike Green was very good last night, so it looks like he is continuing the breakout performance he had last year.
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