WOWY December Update

THE NUMBERS

• Wideman [+8.1%],
  Russell [+9.7%], Brodie [+4.4%], Giordano [+3.9%]
• Byron’s been excellent this year. He makes his teammates better. He’s also been thrown around everywhere in the line-up, to the point where his most common teammates are all defensemen.
  

• Giordano [+6.6%], Glencross [+5.2%], Monahan [+3.0%],
  Hudler [-2.5%], Byron [+4.1%], Jones [+5.4%], Gaudreau [11.7%]
• Another player whose results are in no way shocking. Brodie makes just about everyone better, and in the case of Gaudreau a lot better. Hudler’s the only outlier here, and oddly, Brodie is the only negative regular differential for Hudler’s teammates, too. (See two spots down.)

• Brodie [+2.5%], Glencross [+6.5%], Monahan [+3.8%],
  Hudler [+2.6%], Byron [+2.9%], Jones [+0.4%], Gaudreau [+7.5%]
• I could copy Brodie’s description and put it here, except that Hudler’s numbers are positive with Giordano and negative with Brodie. Weird. A few larger differentials with Brodie than with Giordano, and it’s notable that seemingly Brodie helps Giordano more than Giordano helps Brodie.

• Gaudreau [+4.1%],
  Wideman [+4.7%], Russell [+2.5%], Brodie [-3.4%], Giordano [+1.5%],
  Granlund [+1.8%], Monahan [+3.2%]
• Hudler continues to be Mr. Reliable. Everyone is better with him except for Brodie. No insane differentials here, though.
  

• Glencross [+0.1%],
  Brodie [even], Giordano [+1.4%], Jones [+6.3%], Russell [-3.9%],
  Wideman [-0.2%], Hudler [+2.5%]
• Monahan was a guy who relied on line-mates last year (lots of negatives when we ran these figures), but he’s a difference-maker more often than not here. He’s come a long way since last season.
  

• Monahan [-0.4%],
  Brodie [+1.3%], Giordano [+3.1%], Jones [+5.1%], Russell [-0.1%],
  Wideman [-0.4%]
• Glencross is bouncing back fairly well. He gets tough assignments, but everyone is either basically even, or slightly improved by his presence.
  

• Hudler [+0.4%],
  Wideman [+1.1%], Russell [+3.4%], Granlund [+8.3%], Brodie [+7.1%],
  Giordano [+3.8%]
• A 21-year-old rookie who’d need to grow a bit to be considered tiny makes all of his regular line-mates better. This may be Gaudreau’s most impressive stat line.
  

• Wideman [+4.9%]
• Jooris bounces around a bit and originally didn’t get much ice time, and when he did he was sheltered. One data point is positive but doesn’t amount to much yet.
  

• Glencross [-2.8%],
  Monahan [-2.4%], Brodie [-2.1%], Giordano [-5.0%]
• Jones has struggled to stay healthy. He’s also gotten some tough assignments, as you can see based upon the four names above. Can’t help but wonder how those fellas would do with a different person on the right side in tough minutes situations.
  

• Wideman [+3.0%], Hudler [-3.3%], Byron [+3.2%],
  Gaudreau [+1.2%], Monahan [-8.4%], Glencross [-3.9%]
• Some good, some bad for Russell, which seems appropriate. Tough minutes players have larger negative differentials here with him.

• Russell [+1.2%], Hudler [-1.1%], Gaudreau [-2.4%],
  Byron [+0.7%], Monahan [-5.1%], Glencross [-5.0%], Jooris [+4.3%],
  Granlund [-2.5%]
• Mixed bag for Wideman. My guess is this is largely contingent on circumstances: Monahan and Glencross get the toughest minutes, Jooris the easiest.

• Engelland [+2.2%]
• Smid’s not great, but he improves Engelland by a pretty decent amoumt.
  

• Hudler [-6.4%],
  Gaudreau [+1.5%], Wideman [-3.1%]
• Granlund’s 21 and not a great possession player yet. He does improve Gaudreau’s numbers a bit, which is nice but ultimately he needs work.
  

• Bollig [-2.3%]
• Bouma doesn’t get a lot of even-strength time and his only regular line-mate is not great.

• Smid [-4.6%]
• Engelland drags Smid down.
  

• Bouma [-9.9%]
• Bollig the boat anchor. He hurts Bouma more than Bouma hurts him, to a frighteningly big degree.

SUM IT UP