Black Box: Week 1

12 years ago

Every Monday we’ll be posting a weekly statistical update on how the Flames have fared with each of their individual players on the ice. This first week will be rather tame not only because they’ve played just a single game, but because two of the major statistical sites on which we rely aren’t set up with 2011-12 data yet. Consider this a trial run, and a good way to see what it will look when it’s all put together.

OZQoC Charts (explanation)

For the past four years one of famed statistician Gabriel Desjardins’ many contributions has been the variety of statistics he either introduced or popularized over at Behind the Net, including the Offensive Zone Starts and Quality of Competition data required for our OZQoC Charts. Unfortunately the site isn’t set up for the 2011-12 season yet, so we’ll have to wait a little while before we have an objective presentation of how each of the Calgary Flames are being used this season.

Even-Strength Scoring (explanation)

If there’s another statistician whose contributions rival Desjardins, it’s Vic Ferrari over at TimeOnIce.com. Since extracting Corsi (shot-based) data is truly painful without the assistance of his handy utilities, we’ll wait a short while until he’s got the site up and running for the 2011-12 season. Until then we’ve got Kent’s scoring chance data, and the rest from NHL’s official stats feed. All chances for and against below are per 60 minutes of ice.

Player          ESP/60 CEF CEA CE% SCF SCA  SC%  GF  GA   G%
Scott Hannan     5.1   N/A N/A N/A  25  10 71.4% 5.1 0.0 100%
Mark Giordano    4.2   N/A N/A N/A  21  13 62.5% 4.2 4.2  50%
Lee Stempniak    0.0   N/A N/A N/A  33  20 62.5% 6.5 0.0 100%
Niklas Hagman    4.7   N/A N/A N/A  14   9 60.0% 4.7 0.0 100%
Olli Jokinen     4.0   N/A N/A N/A  24  16 60.0% 4.0 0.0 100%
Roman Horak      5.2   N/A N/A N/A  10  10 50.0% 5.2 0.0 100%
Rene Bourque     5.0   N/A N/A N/A  10  10 50.0% 5.0 0.0 100%
Alex Tanguay     4.0   N/A N/A N/A  20  24 45.5% 4.0 8.1  33%
Chris Butler     0.0   N/A N/A N/A  18  22 45.5% 0.0 0.0   0%
Jay Bouwmeester  0.0   N/A N/A N/A  16  19 45.5% 0.0 0.0   0%
Jarome Iginla    0.0   N/A N/A N/A  17  21 45.5% 0.0 7.0   0%
Curtis Glencross 4.9   N/A N/A N/A  19  29 40.0% 4.9 9.7  33%
Tim Jackman      0.0   N/A N/A N/A  18  36 33.3% 0.0 9.1   0%
David Moss       0.0   N/A N/A N/A   6  29 16.7% 0.0 0.0   0%
Anton Babchuk    0.0   N/A N/A N/A   4  23 14.3% 3.8 0.0 100%
Cory Sarich      0.0   N/A N/A N/A   0  21  0.0% 0.0 0.0   0%
Matt Stajan      0.0   N/A N/A N/A   0  17  0.0% 0.0 8.5   0%
Tom Kostopoulos  0.0   N/A N/A N/A   0   8  0.0% 0.0 8.4   0%

Special teams (explanation)

Once again we’ll postpone the inclusion of Corsi-based data until Ferrari has his site set up for this season, and just look at time on ice this season. First the power play.

Player              TOI/GP PTS/60 CE/60
Alex Tanguay         4.7    0.0    N/A
Mark Giordano        3.9    0.0    N/A
Olli Jokinen         3.1    0.0    N/A
Rene Bourque         3.1    0.0    N/A
Jarome Iginla        2.9    0.0    N/A
Niklas Hagman        2.7    0.0    N/A
Lee Stempniak        2.5    0.0    N/A
Anton Babchuk        2.1    0.0    N/A
David Moss           2.0    0.0    N/A
Jay Bouwmeester      1.7    0.0    N/A
Curtis Glencross     1.4    0.0    N/A

Alex Tanguay was the key man, working the point on the power play along with Mark Giordano. Up front the Flames iced Olli Jokinen between Rene Bourque and Jaroma Iginla on the primary unit. Now the penalty killing.

Player           TOI/GP CE/60
Mark Giordano     4.6    N/A
Scott Hannan      4.6    N/A
Jay Bouwmeester   4.5    N/A
Matt Stajan       3.6    N/A
Chris Butler      3.5    N/A
Tom Kostopoulos   3.1    N/A
Curtis Glencross  3.0    N/A
Rene Bourque      2.3    N/A
David Moss        2.1    N/A
Lee Stempniak     1.8    N/A

Sutter trusted everyone except Cory Sarich and Anton Bachuk on defense, and mostly used Matt Stajan and Tom Kostopoulos as forwards. Using fourth-liners on your penalty kill has the advantage of freeing up your other players to play more minutes at even-strength and with the man advantage.

Goaltending (explanation)

Despite stopping 92.3% of shots at even strength, Miikka Kiprusoff was still dinged with a non-Quality Start since he let in two power play goals.

Goalie           GS QS  QS%  ESSV%
Miikka Kiprusoff  1  0  0.0%  .923

That’s it for this week. With the exception of the missing data, that’s what the weekly updates will look like. What else would you like to see?

Black Box: Week 1

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