Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Pro Quality. Fan Perspective.
Login-facebook
Around SBN: Ray Allen Fighting Age, Injury And His New Role

Stu Hackel Week on Arctic Ice Hockey: Six-on-five situations - "Stats the NHL Ought to Keep"

Stu says: "Six-on-five situations. NHL stats do an excellent job of breaking down the game and ice time when play is 5-0n-5, 5-on-4, 4-on-4, 4-on-3 and so forth. But there are no stats for when a goalie has been pulled for an extra attacker on a delayed penalty and a 6-on-5, 6-on-4 or the ultra-rare 6-on-3 results. Pulling the goalie is not officially a power play, but it is something apart from the normal run of the game and worth exploring numerically."


There are some mistakes that arise from not sequestering empty net 6-on-5 time from 5-on-5 time (primarily a lot of minuses for top offensive players playing with an empty net), but so little of the game is played with an empty net that I don't think we can draw any conclusions about team-level skill:

Star-divide

% of Empty Net Ice Time by Minute:

0-56 56-58 58-60
% EN 0.26 2.06 26.77

The average NHL team plays 15 seconds per game with its net empty. That's one period per season. Is one period enough to just an entire season for a team? The Columbus Blue Jackets would love it if their first period against Detroit on October 25 could stand in for their entire season.

Verdict: the NHL should collect this data, but only to maintain the integrity of non-empty net data.

Comment 4 comments  |  0 recs  | 

Do you like this story?

Comments

Display:

agree with Stu (and you) on this one. should definitely be collected

by Ahmad Bradshaw on Feb 21, 2012 9:55 AM EST reply actions  

Feel free to write your own app that tracks this. That’s what I’m doing.

I will stand beside him with an axe!

by theninjagreg on Feb 21, 2012 2:04 PM EST up reply actions  

I should post the data I track on it. I think Stu Hackel thinks he could draw conclusions about EN talent from 10 minutes of data.

by Hawerchuk on Feb 21, 2012 2:37 PM EST up reply actions  

I think this approach to replying to M. Hackel is a lot more interesting and productive than resorting to snark. :)

by MathMan on Feb 21, 2012 3:49 PM EST reply actions  

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

The finest Winnipeg Jets analysis on the internets

FanPosts


Managers

Hawerchuk_small Hawerchuk

Gary_bettman_bad_dreams_small Bettman's Nightmare

Grapes_small canadian texan

Howe_small TJCAPS

Editors

Ryan_small SO_RyanP

0_small maplestirup

Jets2_small arby_18