Top 10 NHL leaders in percentage of team’s PP played.

by CP2Devil on Jan 7, 2010 11:13 AM EST Comment 12 comments

This issue was brought up in in the comments of Thursday's Caps Clips (1/7/10). The boss man of the Rink suggested a fan post be dedicated to the subject. The numbers below represent the league leaders in terms of percentage of their team's power play played.

1. Ilya Kovalchuk - 86%

2. Alex Ovechkin - 84%

3. Mike Green - 83%

4. Sergei Gonchar - 82%

5. Mark Streit - 81%

6. Sidney Crosby - 80%

7. Martin St. Louis - 80%

8. Evgeni Malkin - 79%

9. Drew Doughty - 75%

10. Tobias Enstrom - 74%

Note: Tyler Ennis is not included on the list due to the fact he's played only one game this season.

Background on the numbers - The numbers below came from using Individual Player PP TOI data from NHL.com & Team PP TOI data Behindthenet.ca. The percentage numbers were rounded. I didn't use game log data for each individual player, so the actual numbers for all but two players (Doughty & Streit) may be slightly different.

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The disturbing thing I see about this is everyone at 80% and over are either on bad teams or on a team with a horrible powerplay.

Although, at least the Caps only have two guys hogging the ice for 90 seconds.

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by zephyr on Jan 7, 2010 11:39 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I disagree. There appears to be mixed results. Caps are a good team and have the 3rd best PP in the league. ATL is fighting for playoff spot and have a top 10 PP.

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by CP2Devil on Jan 7, 2010 11:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ooops, I meant to write other than the Capitals. Atlanta is decent but I don’t think they get a playoff spot which is basically what I was lumping in as bad teams.

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by zephyr on Jan 7, 2010 12:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Second as of today, according to NHL.com </nitpick>

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by gotsparkly on Jan 7, 2010 12:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You are correct. My bad.

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by CP2Devil on Jan 7, 2010 12:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I’d be interested in seeing whose power play has been good with a good spread of ice time (i.e. no one over, say, 50%). I think that’d give you a good idea of who really has a good power play, versus whose relies more on the talent of its players. And yes, I know that all that really matters is “does it score at a high rate or not,” but humor me.

For example, who leads MTL in PP TOI %, and at what %? Etc.

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by J.P. on Jan 7, 2010 12:45 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Answer for your MTL example would be Michael Cammalleri at 62%.

From what I’ve seen just scrolling through the numbers, most teams appear to have at least a couple of guys over 50%. I’ll delve into the top 10 power plays and see if who has guys over 50%. Obviously, I already know that Montreal, the Caps and the Thrash do, though MTL certainly distributes time more than Caps or Thrash.

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by CP2Devil on Jan 7, 2010 1:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

J.P., I ran the numbers you asked about . All the top 10 teams have at least 3 guys above 50% save Vancouver who have the Sedin twins at 53 % and Erhoff right at 50%.

CBUS, LA, ANA, WASH – 5
NJD PHI, – 4
ATL, CHI, MTL – 3
VAN -2

6 of the top 10 teams didn’t have anybody over 60%. One of those who did was Montreal and I’d almost put them in the same group since Cammalleri is only guy above 60% and he’s at 62%. ANA & Kings have 4 guys in the 60-68% range each. Washington was the only team in the top 10 to have anyone over 68% and those are two guys over 80%.

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by CP2Devil on Jan 7, 2010 5:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I would be curious to see how, say, the top 10 teams vs. bottom 10 distribute their PP time. I would assume that teams that convert at a higher rate spend less time on the PP, so there’s less opportunity to have lots of different players take PP time.

Or I could be wildly off base with that prediction. who knows.

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by RedBirdie on Jan 7, 2010 1:09 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I’m pretty sure teams that convert at a high rate spend a longer time on the power play.

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by zephyr on Jan 7, 2010 1:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I beleive this was discussed a while back. Stats I used wouldn’t be that helpful in any case. Total PP TOI doesn’t give you any info on when goals are being scored.

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by CP2Devil on Jan 7, 2010 6:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I agree, it would make sense that good power play teams have a lot of guys over 50%. I mean if the first unit scores during the first minute, the second unit doesn’t get a chance to spend any time on the PP. Whereas bad teams who don’t score that often spend the 2 full minutes and pretty much have to make a change at the 1 min mark.
Of course, the caveat is that the difference between bad teams and good teams is not that great (15% compared to 25%, so only a 10% differential which can’t explain everything).
Based on that, I would expect the bad PP teams to not have as many 50%+ teams. Of course I’m too lazy to check that, so I’ll put this post under the “baseless conclusions” category.

by benjik on Jan 9, 2010 7:05 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

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