Leafs’ Scoring Chances through Nov. 27/10, by Individual

13 years ago

We’ve gone by the first quarter pole of the regular season, so I thought now would be a good time to see where the Maple Leafs stand as far as scoring chances go. To get the gist of how chances are counted, see my first post at LeafsNation. We’ll be looking over player statistics in each game state: Even-Strength, Power-Play, and Penalty-Kill. Two-man advantages are unaccounted for in the data.

To see last season’s results, click the following links:

1) 2009-10 Even Strength
2) 2009-10 Power-Play
3) 2009-10 Penalty-Kill

This season’s stats below…
Toronto Maple Leafs’ Individual Scoring Chance Statistics through Nov. 27/10 (data from games 1-17* & 19-22, with no data for game #18):

EVEN STRENGTH:

Forward	ES Min	CF	CA	CF/60	CA/60	DIF/60
M. GRABOVSKI	313.90	112	76	21.41	14.53	6.88
C. MACARTHUR	306.73	102	69	19.95	13.50	6.46
N. KADRI	94.42	29	21	18.43	13.35	5.08
N. KULEMIN	297.68	88	72	17.74	14.51	3.22
M. ZIGOMANIS	39.10	10	8	15.35	12.28	3.07
P. KESSEL	324.30	98	98	18.13	18.13	0
T. BOZAK	317.45	83	89	15.69	16.82	-1.13
K. VERSTEEG	312.53	83	95	15.93	18.24	-2.30
L. CAPUTI	77.78	19	22	14.66	16.97	-2.31
C. ARMSTRONG	93.20	20	26	12.88	16.74	-3.86
T. BRENT	221.05	38	58	10.31	15.74	-5.43
M. BROWN	164.85	24	42	8.74	15.29	-6.55
F. SJOSTROM	246.57	43	71	10.46	17.28	-6.81
J. MITCHELL	131.75	17	36	7.74	16.39	-8.65
C. ORR	109.55	14	30	7.67	16.43	-8.76
C. HANSON	11.70	0	3	0	15.38	-15.38
Defense	ES Min	CF	CA	CF/60	CA/60	DIF/60
K. HOLZER	36.33	9	5	14.86	8.26	6.61
F. BEAUCHEMIN	397.20	102	87	15.41	13.14	2.27
D. PHANEUF	179.77	51	45	17.02	15.02	2.00
T. KABERLE	383.37	109	107	17.06	16.75	0.31
L. SCHENN	397.37	109	107	16.46	16.16	0.30
C. GUNNARSSON	142.92	36	44	15.11	18.47	-3.36
M. KOMISAREK	300.67	61	85	12.17	16.96	-4.79
B. LEBDA	152.17	31	45	12.22	17.74	-5.52
K. AULIE	55.32	10	21	10.85	22.78	-11.93
Goalie	ES Min	CF	CA	CF/60	CA/60	DIF/60
J. GIGUERE	612.10	153	133	15.00	13.04	1.96
J. GUSTAVSSON	400.80	101	140	15.12	20.96	-5.84

No surprise at who the top 3 (regular) forwards are at this point in time. Anyone who’s followed the Leafs for a bit this season knows that the line of Grabovski-MacArthur-Kulemin have been carrying the mail. Together, those three were 65-40 in chances (61.9 %) which is a great ratio.

Versteeg has been disappointing so far, as he holds the worst CA/60 among forwards at 18.24. Phil Kessel hasn’t been much better at that aspect (18.13) but at least he has provided enough offense to break even. The "bottom sixers" are really getting dinged, in the case of Tim Brent and Fredrik Sjostrom, that is in large part due to the tough icetime they’ve been given by Ron Wilson. Colby Armstrong lined up mostly with those two before he got injured.

Does Colton Orr really need to be in the lineup every game?

Beauchemin has the best even strength CA/60 on the team at 13.14, even though he tends to be one of the favourite targets among those hunting for scapegoats. Komisarek has played tougher minutes this year and his chance numbers have taken a real hit as a result.

POWER-PLAY:

Forward	PP Min	CF	CA	CF/60	CA/60	DIF/60
N. KULEMIN	60.53	41	4	40.64	3.96	36.67
K. VERSTEEG	76.67	50	12	39.13	9.39	29.74
M. GRABOVSKI	67.32	42	5	37.44	4.46	32.98
P. KESSEL	87.28	50	10	34.37	6.87	27.50
C. MACARTHUR	65.17	37	5	34.07	6.50	29.46
T. BOZAK	71.45	36	7	30.23	5.88	24.35
L. CAPUTI	10.35	5	3	28.99	17.39	11.59
N. KADRI	16.92	7	6	24.83	21.28	3.55
M. ZIGOMANIS	0.52	0	0	0	0	0
C. ARMSTRONG	1.20	0	0	0	0	0
T. BRENT	0.72	0	0	0	0	0
F. SJOSTROM	0.90	0	0	0	0	0
M. BROWN	2.10	0	0	0	0	0
C. ORR	0.50	0	0	0	0	0
J. MITCHELL	5.32	0	2	0	22.57	-22.57
Defense	PP Min	CF	CA	CF/60	CA/60	DIF/60
T. KABERLE	101.22	64	12	37.94	7.11	30.82
L. SCHENN	26.85	16	3	35.75	6.70	29.05
D. PHANEUF	50.83	30	2	35.41	2.36	33.05
B. LEBDA	14.33	7	4	29.30	16.74	12.56
F. BEAUCHEMIN	55.35	18	5	19.51	5.42	14.09
C. GUNNARSSON	3.87	1	0	15.52	0	15.52
K. HOLZER	1.78	0	0	0	0	0
M. KOMISAREK	0.90	0	0	0	0	0
Goalie	PP Min	CF	CA	CF/60	CA/60	DIF/60
J. GUSTAVSSON	57.73	31	10	32.22	10.39	21.82
J. GIGUERE	84.03	44	6	31.41	4.28	27.13

PENALTY-KILL:

Forward	PK Min	CF	CA	CF/60	CA/60	DIF/60
N. KADRI	0.38	0	0	0	0	0
C. HANSON	2.93	0	0	0	0	0
C. ARMSTRONG	9.68	0	2	0	12.39	-12.39
N. KULEMIN	8.10	2	2	14.81	14.81	0
M. GRABOVSKI	11.27	3	3	15.98	15.98	0
M. ZIGOMANIS	16.18	0	8	0	29.66	-29.66
M. BROWN	34.22	1	17	1.75	29.81	-28.06
T. BOZAK	5.32	2	3	22.57	33.86	-11.29
K. VERSTEEG	15.80	0	9	0	34.18	-34.18
F. SJOSTROM	38.70	1	30	1.55	46.51	-44.96
T. BRENT	42.72	2	34	2.81	47.76	-44.95
J. MITCHELL	16.48	1	14	3.64	50.96	-47.32
P. KESSEL	3.58	2	4	33.49	66.98	-33.49
Defense	PK Min	CF	CA	CF/60	CA/60	DIF/60
K. HOLZER	1.18	0	0	0	0	0
D. PHANEUF	17.37	0	4	0	13.82	-13.82
B. LEBDA	2.87	0	1	0	20.93	-20.93
T. KABERLE	6.97	0	3	0	25.84	-25.84
F. BEAUCHEMIN	57.65	6	31	6.24	32.26	-26.02
L. SCHENN	48.72	3	34	3.69	41.87	-38.18
C. GUNNARSSON	29.08	0	21	0	43.32	-43.32
M. KOMISAREK	39.08	4	32	6.14	49.13	-42.99
K. AULIE	5.00	1	7	12.00	84.00	-72.00
Goalie	PK Min	CF	CA	CF/60	CA/60	DIF/60
J. GIGUERE	69.43	5	37	4.32	31.97	-27.65
J. GUSTAVSSON	34.47	2	29	3.48	50.48	-47.00

Mike Brown has far and away been the best of the regular PK forwards. Sjostrom isn’t enjoying the success he had last year, maybe playing with Tim Brent has something to do with it. Zigomanis was doing an excellent job before he got sent down, I thought, and the numbers back up my viewpoint, albeit within small sample size.

Poor Jonas Gustavsson, the Leafs seem to be making life a lot more difficult for him than Giguere so far.

* There’s been three games so far that I haven’t recorded data for, two of them were games against the NY Rangers and Florida Panthers. For those, I’ve lifted data from George Ays and Derek Zona, respectively.

Leafs’ Scoring Chances through Nov. 27/10, by Individual

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