2009-10 Power-Play Scoring Chances, by Individual

Throughout the 2009-10 season, I have tracked scoring chances for the Leafs in all but 9 games. Luckily, I have data for 3 of those games that I missed, supplied by bloggers who've tracked chances for other teams. Over the past week or so, I've been going over my data and doing some double-checking whenever I get some spare time, so some corrections were made.

In this post, we will look at the 2009-10 total scoring chance statistics for all Leaf players who played at least 1 second on the PP during the games covered, excluding two man advantage situations. A post containing penalty-killing data, and one on even-strength stats will soon follow, as well as one looking at high quality scoring chances.

The Leafs ranked last in both PP Scoring Percentage and Penalty-Killing Percentage, so we can approximately see both ends of the spectrum as far as how many chances NHL Power-Play's generate on average. Toronto averaged 30.7 chances per 60 minutes of power-play time, while the opposition averaged 43.0 chances per hour against the Leafs' PK. I was going to include penalty-kill data in this post but for some reason the tables were fudging up on me so I'm going to have work on fixing that up.

What I considered a scoring chance: a shot taken from within what I dubbed the "prime scoring area" - draw a line starting from the faceoff dots inside each circle and angle it inward toward the net. Most goals are scored within that region and the average shot attempt from inside those lines have a better probability of going into the net than a shot from almost anywhere outside that region (Gabriel Desjardins of Behind-the-Net posted this diagram awhile ago that demonstrates this). A shot from outside could also be considered a scoring chance, depending on certain conditions (traffic in front of the goal, if the goalie was well screened, rebound shots, etc.). I won't count a long-bomb shot if it doesn't hit the net, regardless of screens and whatnot, and I think that's one of the reasons why the Leafs horrifically stale PP suffered so much this season, too much reliance on low-percentage shots from the point, often missing the net entirely if they get through. Not to mention the turnovers that result...

I am just digesting these stats myself so I have no special insight to offer... without any further comment, here's the stats for each player while on the PP:

Power-Play:

Player	GP	TOI	ChF	ChA	PP CF/60	SH CA/60	DIF /60
N. Kadri	1	1.65	2	0	72.73	0	+72.63
M. Komisarek	30	8.62	5	0	34.82	0	+34.82
V. Stalberg	36	57.65	35	3	36.43	3.12	+33.30
L. Caputi	17	34.40	21	2	36.63	3.49	+33.14
L. Stempniak*	58	155.58	92	12	35.48	4.63	+30.85
J. Mayers*	41	4.07	2	0	29.51	0	+29.51
T. Bozak	35	119.02	64	6	32.26	3.02	+29.24
P. Kessel	68	243.93	134	17	32.96	4.18	+28.78
T. Kaberle	76	322.32	175	22	32.58	4.10	+28.48
J. Finger	35	12.88	7	1	32.60	4.66	+27.94
M. Grabovski	53	124.65	68	10	32.73	4.81	+27.92
M. Stajan*	51	133.17	68	7	30.64	3.15	+27.48
C. Gunnarsson	41	74.42	36	2	29.03	1.61	+27.41
A. Ponikarovsky*	57	150.55	71	7	28.30	2.79	+25.51
F. Beauchemin	76	217.20	109	17	30.11	4.70	+25.41
N. Kulemin	73	108.65	56	11	30.92	6.07	+24.85
I. White*	52	102.65	47	7	27.48	4.09	+23.39
N. Hagman*	51	103.10	47	7	27.35	4.07	+23.28
R. Wallin	54	7.82	3	0	23.03	0.00	+23.03
J. Mitchell	54	78.33	35	5	26.81	3.83	+22.98
J. Blake*	52	94.72	42	6	26.61	3.80	+22.80
L. Schenn	73	18.43	9	2	29.29	6.51	+22.78
J. Lundmark	14	11.38	5	1	26.35	5.27	+21.08
D. Phaneuf	24	99.02	42	10	25.45	6.06	+19.39
C. Orr	76	6.98	2	0	17.18	0	+17.18
C. Hanson	29	35.40	16	6	27.12	10.17	+16.95
W. Primeau	56	8.25	2	0	14.55	0	+14.55
G. Exelby	49	1.60	0	0	0	0	0
F. Sjostrom	18	3.98	0	0	0	0	0
J. Rosehill	12	0.65	0	0	0	0	0
B. Irwin	2	0.10	0	0	0	0	0
J. Tlusty*	2	2.77	0	0	0	0	0
Player	GP	TOI	ChF	ChA	PP CF/60	SH CA/60	DIF /60
V. Toskala*	23	118.20	68	8	34.52	4.06	+30.46
J. MacDonald*	6	31.67	20	5	37.89	9.47	+28.42
J-S. Giguere	13	98.47	50	6	30.47	3.66	+26.81
J. Gustavsson	40	216.77	100	13	27.68	3.60	+24.08
All Goalies	76	465.10	238	32	30.70	4.13	+26.57

Players with asterisks (*) beside their name were traded.

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