![]() ![]() Here we can see where the high-end producers are becoming more readily available. This is how the distribution fell for different PP production levels among forwards only over the last five seasons: Because three of the last five seasons had COVID interruptions, the following benchmarks will be a per-game rate and limited to forwards that played at least 75% of the season's games. Robertson and Kucherov show us that there was more scoring elsewhere in the league but, again, a lot of the elite totals were thanks to Edmonton.īut, yes, there were more players with high-end totals than any point in recent memory. Setting aside the four players that reached the 50-point mark, Jason Robertson was the only other player to pass 40 PPPs in 2022-23. ![]() Kuch, for his part, had 48 PPPs in 2018-19 so this isn't entirely new territory for him. The fact is that three of those four players were all in Edmonton, while the fourth was Nikita Kucherov. It's easy to look at this past season having four instances of a player reaching 50 PPPs – the only four players to do so in a season since the 2012 lockout – and assume higher elite PP production rates. Reviewing the Edmonton power play also matters for point distribution. It wasn't exact, but close enough to not make sweeping judgments about modern special teams exploding in the NHL. If you were a fantasy owner that didn't have a piece of the 22-23 Edmonton power play, the rest of the players performed similarly to the year before. It is why I want to be careful to overstate the jump in PP scoring we saw. This shows us that goals/60 went up by 0.23 from 2021-22 to 2022-23, but if we remove the most prodigious PP team from each season, that falls to 0.1. Consider what power play scoring looks like if we remove the highest-scoring team from each of the last two seasons (Edmonton in 2022-23, Colorado in 2021-22): Season With such an outlier power play, we have to look at how that affected our stats. ![]() In other words, Edmonton's power play was a monster outlier, even in a higher-scoring environment. Edmonton's 88 goals are the most on the power play for any team since 2009 (Detroit, 89) and there hasn't been another team to reach just 75 PP goals since the 2009-10 Capitals. There was an equal gap between their goal total and that of second-place Ottawa to that between Ottawa and 16 th-place Calgary. This past season saw the Oilers score 88 power-play goals, or 19 more goals than the next-closest team. There are varied reasons for that – power-play opportunities and conversion percentage both went up – but the Edmonton Oilers need to be mentioned. That represents a 9.5% jump in power play goals in one year, and 17% since 2018-19. Power play scoring rose across the league with 149 more PP goals in 2022-23 than in 2021-22. As usual, data will be from our Frozen Tools or Natural Stat Trick, unless otherwise indicated. If there are changes on the blue line, there are changes up front, and it's important to go through them. The second spent time on particular targets to consider outside of the top tier of producers. The first looking at production and shot rates on the power play from defencemen, the distribution of points among the league's PP defencemen, and what it all means for fantasy. The last couple Ramblings averted their gaze to the power play. Go visit our Ramblings section to peruse the list. Last week's Ramblings covered how stats like blocked shots, hits, and penalty minutes have fluctuated in recent seasons, how many players reach different peripheral thresholds, and some players to target for various reasons. This week, we've continued our look at peripheral stats in fantasy hockey, focusing on how they've changed in parallel to the game itself over the years. He really seemed to create good chemistry in Vegas's top-6 mix. I will have a bit more on Howden in an upcoming Ramblings but for cap leaguers, this is still just fine in multi-cat formats. 2023-24 Fantasy Hockey Guide Dobber’s 18th Annual GuideĪAV is $1.9 million. ![]()
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