Pens / Flyers - Series Stats
Jonathan Farzalo | Inside The Numbers
Wednesday May 21, 2008
Pittsburgh Penguins vs Philadelphia Flyers Series Stats
Pittsburgh Penguins vs Philadelphia Flyers Series Stats
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I constantly hear people calling out Marian Hossa. “He is a choker. He can not play in the playoffs. He is overpaid. He is going to command too much for his production. He is a Maid Marian.”
So I got to thinking.
Pittsburgh Penguins vs Ottawa Senators Series Stats
Setting sail: Boston, Minnesota
Sinking ships: Vancouver, Calgary, New Jersey
Setting sail: Florida, Washington, Pittsburgh, Detroit
Sinking ships: Dallas, Boston, Colorado
Setting Sail: Minnesota, Washington
Sinking Ships: Calgary, Vancouver, Dallas
Setting sail: Colorado, San Jose, Detroit
Sinking ships: Boston, NY Islanders, Nashville
I break the Pittsburgh Penguins’ season into 5-game segments and compare them to where they stood last year. Here is how things look at the 70-game mark.
Sidney Crosby was injured on January 18. At the time, the Pens stood as follows:
Atlantic Division: Tied for first with New Jersey
Eastern Conference: Fourth place, 9 points behind Ottawa
Points ahead of ninth place team: 6
Since Crosby went down, the Pens are 11-6-4. How has that impacted their standings?
Setting sail: Chicago, Anaheim, Carolina
Sinking ships: Detroit, Colorado, Buffalo, Minnesota, Tampa Bay
Setting Sail: Buffalo, Dallas, NY Rangers, Florida
Sinking Ships: Philadelphia, Montreal, NY Islanders
Sidney Crosby was injured on Friday, January 18. A look at the numbers shows just how well this team has been playing without Crosby.
If statistics told the entire story, the season would end now and the Pittsburgh Penguins would be in the playoffs. But they don’t, and so the season must go on. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to see that the Penguins have just over an 89% chance at advancing to the playoffs for the second consecutive season.
“Cost per save” is a pretty good indicator of how valuable a goalie is to a team in terms of stopping power, as well as “bang for buck”…or “stop for buck”!
On this, the two-week “anniversary” of Sidney Crosby’s dreaded high ankle sprain, it is appropriate to take a look at how the Pens have fared since then.
Setting sail: Boston, Nashville, Montreal
Sinking ships: St. Louis, NY Islanders, Vancouver, Ottawa
Evgeni Malkin has a very interesting home/road statistical split against the Flyers.
The Pittsburgh Penguins now occupy first place in the Atlantic Division and second place in the Eastern Conference, but the New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia Flyers are hot on their trail.
James Mirtle put together a look at the NHL’s top 30 players — 10 forwards, 10 defensemen, and 10 goalies — over the last 30 days. Not surprisingly, the Pittsburgh Penguins are represented in all three categories.
Last week the Pittsburgh Penguins were in the midst of a six-game winning streak that had pushed them to second in the Atlantic and fourth in the East. Not much has changed.
The Eastern Conference playoff race is beginning to take shape, and the Pittsburgh Penguins quickly are becoming one of the top players.
Like many of you, we took a little hiatus over the holiday. But the Faceoff Factor Power rankings return today, and there has been a bit of a shakeup.
I break the Pittsburgh Penguins’ season into 5-game segments and compare them to where they stood last year. Here is how things look at the 35-game mark, which occurred before the Boston game.
Not a good week for the Atlantic, what with Phoenix running roughshod through the division.
The updated Special Teams Action Ratings (STAR) show that the Pittsburgh Penguins have fallen from the top tier to the middle of the pack. See how the other teams rank inside.
The Pittsburgh Penguins continue to run with the big dogs despite a slow start and the loss of starting goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. See how the stack up inside.
How do the Pens compare to last year after 30 games?
Riding high: Detroit, Pittsburgh, Toronto
Flailing: Rangers, Montreal, Tampa Bay
Dallas has made a huge jump to the top, though Vancouver actually rose the most. Chicago also is red hot. Cold teams include Colorado, Columbus, and Los Angeles.
Several Pittsburgh Penguins seem to be getting too much ice time, while others don’t seem to be getting enough.
Today, we introduce the Faceoff Factor Power Rankings. Check out where your team ranks.
The season is now a month old, so we can begin to look at some key statistics that have begun to stabilize. One of these is special teams proficiency. To look at this, I devised a formula that takes all special teams activity into account. I call it the Special Teams Action Rating, or STAR.
The lack of goal scoring by any Pittsburgh Penguins forwards not named Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, or Petr Sykora has been well-documented. Nobody other than those three has scored a goal since October 20. But was this something that could have been anticipated?
Can we look at statistics from this past season to possibly help in determining what areas are most important to success? Well, of course we can, and hopefully provide a little insight along the way into what areas of a team’s performance correlate most closely with success.