I received an e-mail in response to my column on Darryl Sutter and Marginal Cap Efficiency asking if I could break the numbers out in a rolling average. The reasoning, my e-mailer said, was so that we could see improvement or worsening per team over time. I thought it was a good idea as well. Management teams change, rebuilds take effect, and players grow up and grow old. Is Nashville always dominant or was that mostly due to the seasons directly following the lockout? Is Detroit efficient every year? Were the teams in the bottom five ever efficient or is just failure and misery all around? How much of an impact does the rising cap have on this number?

After the jump I look at Marginal Cap Efficiency in two-year segments since the lockout.

The table below shows Marginal Cap Efficiency in two-year rolling segments. Red cells indicate below NHL average efficiency.

*Table is sortable by column, click the header row to sort.



05-07 06-08 07-09 08-10 WSH 2.71 2.28 2.04 2.11 NJD 2.41 2.13 2.25 2.10 PHX 1.94 1.83 1.89 2.09 SJS 2.96 2.62 2.38 2.05 VAN 2.40 2.07 1.93 1.94 CHI 1.62 1.60 1.75 1.91 NSH 3.52 2.89 1.96 1.88 LAK 1.98 1.45 1.56 1.87 DET 2.94 2.53 2.21 1.87 BOS 1.66 1.60 1.86 1.78 STL 2.05 1.79 1.57 1.76 BUF 3.34 2.30 1.84 1.75 PIT 2.55 2.74 1.99 1.72 NHL AVG 2.47 2.05 1.78 1.68 CBJ 1.92 1.87 1.84 1.67 ATL 2.24 1.95 1.60 1.65 DAL 2.88 2.22 1.69 1.61 CGY 2.59 2.06 1.81 1.61 PHI 1.79 1.47 1.79 1.59 CAR 3.05 2.03 1.87 1.59 ANA 2.94 2.28 1.72 1.56 COL 2.32 2.06 1.54 1.53 NYR 2.67 2.02 1.71 1.52 OTT 2.95 2.21 1.67 1.51 MTL 2.37 2.17 1.87 1.50 NYI 2.24 2.04 1.37 1.49 FLA 2.78 1.98 1.71 1.47 MIN 3.02 2.27 1.77 1.45 TOR 2.22 1.79 1.56 1.33 TBL 2.29 1.83 1.22 1.29 EDM 2.18 1.65 1.57 1.16