Lets start this off by saying I know your team got hosed by the refs this year. I also know your powerplay sucks because you couldn't get into a groove. Now you can have the numbers to back up your (probably incorrect) conspiracy theories!

First, the raw chances. How good was your team at drawing penalties? How was your team at not taking penalties? To simplify it, I added two more columns: the percentage of power plays a certain team got, as well as the total number of penalties in that teams 82 games.

The Bruins were actually a good team in terms of not taking penalties, fini. However, they were the 29th ranked team in terms of drawing them, and spent most of the year dead last, at times having 25 less power plays than the next team.

Heres a spreadsheet of the data if you prefer that.

Attempts

Powerplays Times Shorthanded Penalty Differential % Of powerplays Total Penalties CALGARY 255 186 69 57.82% 441 CAROLINA 240 190 50 55.81% 430 CHICAGO 261 211 50 55.30% 472 NY ISLANDERS 267 218 49 55.05% 485 DALLAS 290 254 36 53.31% 544 SAN JOSE 254 223 31 53.25% 477 NASHVILLE 259 234 25 52.54% 493 TAMPA BAY 282 257 25 52.32% 539 OTTAWA 280 257 23 52.14% 537 TORONTO 283 266 17 51.55% 549 EDMONTON 232 219 13 51.44% 451 MINNESOTA 246 234 12 51.25% 480 LOS ANGELES 247 236 11 51.14% 483 COLORADO 247 241 6 50.61% 488 DETROIT 294 288 6 50.52% 582 NY RANGERS 232 235 -3 49.68% 467 FLORIDA 246 250 -4 49.60% 496 ST LOUIS 251 257 -6 49.41% 508 PHILADELPHIA 256 266 -10 49.04% 522 MONTREAL 243 257 -14 48.60% 500 PITTSBURGH 254 277 -23 47.83% 531 VANCOUVER 238 266 -28 47.22% 504 WASHINGTON 237 266 -29 47.12% 503 WINNIPEG 269 308 -39 46.62% 577 BOSTON 213 244 -31 46.61% 457 BUFFALO 224 257 -33 46.57% 481 ANAHEIM 235 274 -39 46.17% 509 ARIZONA 230 279 -49 45.19% 509 COLUMBUS 244 303 -59 44.61% 547 NEW JERSEY 212 268 -56 44.17% 480





Enough with the attempts, show me the results!

PPG is power play goals,SHG is shorthanded goals, PPGA is powerplay goals against, and SHGA are shorthanded goals against. The first two are positives, and the latter two are negatives.

In the Bruins case, theyre the sixth best offense while shorthanded, scoring eight goals and only allowing three, which helped make their special teams numbers a lot more respectable, and despite finishing with 31 more shorthanded situations than power plays they were only a -1 in terms of goals. The Brad Marchand - Patrice Bergeron pairing while shorthanded is deadly, with 9 shorthanded goals combined the past two years. Using half of that number to get a per year rank, those two alone would be 18th amongst NHL teams.

Team PPG PPGA SHG SHGA Goal differential Goals % CALGARY 48 36 6 3 15 58.06% CAROLINA 45 29 2 4 14 58.75% VANCOUVER 46 38 6 2 12 56.52% TAMPA BAY 53 42 7 6 12 55.56% ST LOUIS 56 42 2 5 11 55.24% WASHINGTON 60 50 4 4 10 54.24% DETROIT 70 55 3 8 10 53.68% NY ISLANDERS 50 48 10 3 9 54.05% MINNESOTA 39 32 4 3 8 55.13% DALLAS 55 49 9 7 8 53.33% CHICAGO 46 35 3 7 7 53.85% LOS ANGELES 47 45 7 2 7 53.47% SAN JOSE 55 48 4 5 6 52.68% NY RANGERS 39 37 9 6 5 52.75% COLORADO 37 37 4 2 2 51.25% PITTSBURGH 49 42 6 11 2 50.93% MONTREAL 40 42 7 4 1 50.54% OTTAWA 47 44 6 8 1 50.48% BOSTON 38 44 8 3 -1 49.46% WINNIPEG 48 56 10 5 -3 48.74% PHILADELPHIA 60 61 3 6 -4 48.46% NASHVILLE 42 45 4 5 -4 47.92% COLUMBUS 53 60 5 5 -7 47.15% TORONTO 45 52 7 12 -12 44.83% NEW JERSEY 41 52 7 8 -12 44.44% ANAHEIM 37 52 9 6 -12 44.23% EDMONTON 41 51 4 7 -13 43.69% FLORIDA 40 50 1 6 -15 42.27% ARIZONA 46 65 4 7 -22 40.98% BUFFALO 30 64 7 8 -35 33.94%

Spreadsheet.

So, does your team need anger management lessons? Or should you team take some diving lessons?