HABS: Quantifying Penalty-killing success among Habs AHL Prospects
Ellis the most-successful Hamilton penalty-killer
Teams playing short-handed tend to engage in a limited amount of events. Due to this, penalty-killing is among the most difficult aspects of a player's performance to quantify.
Tracking every puck-possession event allows us to show how often a player successfully impacts the play. The graph below is a visual representation of the number of times per-minute played each Canadiens prospect either blocks a shot, intercepts a pass, recovers a loose-puck, or dumps the puck out of the defensive-zone.
I appreciate your posts, but I get the impression all or most your reports are positive.
Given that our teams are bad or average at worst, this can't possibly be. Do you simply throw out the negative information, or am I misinterpreting?
ETA: NVM, there's plenty of negative information on your page, you just put the most positive player out of 10 in the title.
Also, Beaulieu and Stejkal have a taller black bar than Ellis.
As mentioned in the post, Beaulieu and Stejskal are not among players with more than 10 total minutes of short-handed ice-time. What I failed to explain specifically, is that as such, their results are too early to include them among players with significant SH ice-time.
I try to stay away from making positive or negative comments, and focus on simply communicating the data. There are enough opinions out there, nobody needs to read mine.
In the event of an NHL season, experience, age and performance make Frederic St. Denis the most likely first call-up for the Canadiens.
The numbers below represent St. Denis's even-strength event totals and success-rates earned with the Hamilton Bulldogs this season. The veteran AHL defenseman has produced above average success-rates in every zone, and has been used profusely on both the top powerplay and penalty-killing units.
Possession and Defensive success-rates for Habs AHL Prospects
Holland, Bournival, Beaulieu and St. Denis consistently above-average
The numbers included here represent each Montreal Canadiens prospect's possession and defensive success-rates this season. The players included here are limited to prospects who have played for the Hamilton Bulldogs this season.
HABS: Quantifying Penalty-killing success among Habs AHL Prospects
Ellis the most-successful Hamilton penalty-killer
Teams playing short-handed tend to engage in a limited amount of events. Due to this, penalty-killing is among the most difficult aspects of a player's performance to quantify.
Tracking every puck-possession event allows us to show how often a player successfully impacts the play. The graph below is a visual representation of the number of times per-minute played each Canadiens prospect either blocks a shot, intercepts a pass, recovers a loose-puck, or dumps the puck out of the defensive-zone.
Beaulieu doesn't have enough minutes on the PK to make the cutoff for a ranking, but his involvement in the play is off the charts, so to speak. The nature of the PK, though, makes that somewhat hard to evaluate. Is it a good thing he's involved in so many events or is it evidence he's leaving position? Some of both, but how much of which. For example, I think of Hall Gill as a preeminent PKer for mutliple teams. but his influence was often, perhaps even mainly, evident in plays that never happened because the PP opposition wouldn't even try and shot through him, or carry the puck into his reach, etc. Obviously with a guy like him he'll show up as an elite shot blocker (I also be he had a pretty good dump the zone rate), but what's also elite about that kind of guy on the PK is how many good scoring chances simply don't happen because of their presence.
Awful hard to quantify. And largely irrelevant to Beaulieu, sorry for straying off topic. Say what you will about NB, he ain't stationary.
Only way to get the good, while protecting against the bad
The Montreal Canadiens will buy out Scott Gomez after this season. The future salary cap, combined with the $61M committed to just 16 skaters in 2013-14 will force their hand. The more interesting question is, what do the Habs do with number 11 this season?
Only way to get the good, while protecting against the bad
The Montreal Canadiens will buy out Scott Gomez after this season. The future salary cap, combined with the $61M committed to just 16 skaters in 2013-14 will force their hand. The more interesting question is, what do the Habs do with number 11 this season?
