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

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.

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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.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

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.

A man gotta have a code

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.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

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

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

No Alex, no ratings. Know Alex, know ratings.

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

You are correct. My bad.

A man gotta have a code

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.

A man gotta have a code

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%.

A man gotta have a code

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.

The Swedish equivalent of Tom Poti should feel shame.

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.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

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.

A man gotta have a code

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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