Today i am continuing my summer sabermetrics series by posting the top 20 players in 2014/15 by team adjusted Corsi. Corsi is a measure of puck possession. It is the difference between attempted shots (shots on goal, missed shots and blocked shots) by a team and their opponents when a given player is on the ice. This is clearly a team dependant number. A first attempt to isolate individual play is to adjust for the team that a player plays upon. This is done by taking the team Corsi of the player's team divided by five (since there are five players on the ice for each team) as a baseline for a team adjusted Corsi.

This group of players is a group of players who excelled in puck possession on their teams.

Here are the top 20 players in 2014/15 by team adjusted Corsi:

1. Joe Thornton +313.6 San Jose

2. Patrice Bergeron +268.8 Boston

3. Mike Ribeiro +261.2 Nashville

4. Drew Doughty +258.0 Los Angeles

5. Eric Staal +257.0 Carolina

6. Joe Pavelski +256.6 San Jose

7. Jake Muzzin +249.0 Los Angeles

8. Tomas Tatar +240.6 Detroit

9. Duncan Keith +229.4 Chicago

10. Justin Faulk +227.0 Carolina

11. Pavel Datsyuk +221.6 Detroit

12. Anze Kopitar +211.0 Los Angeles

13. Brad Marchand +206.8 Boston

14. Filip Forsberg +206.2 Nashville

15. Anton Stralman +196.6 Tampa Bay

16. Nick Leddy +195.2 NY Islanders

17. Brian Campbell +194.0 Florida

18. Michael Raffl +192.4 Philadelphia

19. Brandon Gallagher +191.8 Montreal

20. Sidney Crosby +186.6 Pittsburgh

This is a good group of players. Some make this list because of strong two-way play. Others are more protected and are used more exclusively in offensive situations and can be found by looking at zone starts - which I will do in the future.

Joe Thornton leads this group. He is a top player who is often seen as being in the downside of his career, but his decline has been overstated by many. His tenure in San Jose has become a bit rocky. He has been stripped of the captaincy. His Corsi shows that he is still the key player on his team.

All three Selke Trophy nominees on this list have made this list. Patrice Bergeron, the winner, is second. Pavel Datsyuk and Anze Kopitar are in the middle of this list.

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