Included are Corsi REL QoC (quality of competition based on the Corsi metric), Corsi REL QoT (quality of teammates by Corsi), and QualCOMP (quality of competition by goal differential, and included for posterity). For those three statistics, I've displayed the ranking of each player on his team among forwards who played 30 games or more that season, instead of the direct figure for each stat. This gives better insight to how the player was used within context of the team. One caveat, however, is that due to limitations of the Behind-the-Net site (don't get me wrong, it's an absolutely terrific resource for non-mainstream NHL statistics), those numbers could be a little skewed because of trades during a given season.
Note that the number to the left of the slash is where the player ranked on the team, and the the number to the right is the number of forwards on the team. For example, in 2007-08, Kovalchuk ranked 1st on his team in QualCOMP, out of 13 forwards.
PDO is the team's on-ice shooting percentage plus team's save percentage while the player was on the ice. Player's who have very PDO numbers high above 1000 are considered "lucky", favoured by the percentages. Likewise, those with PDO numbers well below 1000 are "unlucky". In theory, the career number should move closer to 1000 over time.
Start OPct is simply the ratio of offensive zone faceoffs to defensive zone faceoffs expressed in percentage form. Player's with an OPct above 50 are on for more offensive zone draws than defensive zone faceoffs.
Ilya Kovalchuk
| Season | GP | 5v5 Pts/60 | Qual COMP | Corsi REL QoC | Corsi REL QoT | PDO | Start OPct |
| 07-08 | 79 | 2.72 | 1/13 | 8/13 | 12/13 | 1015 | 49.1 |
| 08-09 | 79 | 2.61 | 4/12 | 9/12 | 6/12 | 1010 | 45.0 |
| 09-10 | 75 | 2.89 | * | * | * | 1035 | 50.7 |
* - in 2009-10, Kovalchuk would've ranked about 3/15, 9/15, and 1/15 (not including Bergfors) in QualCOMP, REL QoC, and REL QoT, respectively, if he'd finished the year with the Atlanta Thrashers.
For some reason there's a real discrepancy between his QualCOMP and his Corsi REL QoC. I think it's fair to say he faced average-to-good opposition while playing with the best linemates available.
Ilya Kovalchuk is definitely the most consistent elite 5-on-5 scorer of all free agents.
Alexander Frolov
| Season | GP | 5v5 Pts/60 | Qual COMP | Corsi REL QoC | Corsi REL QoT | PDO | Start OPct |
| 07-08 | 71 | 2.76 | 12/15 | 7/15 | 2/15 | 1007 | 53.7 |
| 08-09 | 77 | 1.62 | 1/13 | 1/13 | 6/13 | 979 | 50.9 |
| 09-10 | 79 | 1.87 | 5/14 | 4/14 | 10/14 | 979 | 52.9 |
Frolov went from facing weak opponents with first-rate linemates in '08 (with Marc Crawford as coach) to being matched up against tougher competition with mediocre teammates (under Terry Murray) over the last two years. His ES production has suffered as a result.
Paul Kariya
| Season | GP | 5v5 Pts/60 | Qual COMP | Corsi REL QoC | Corsi REL QoT | PDO | Start OPct |
| 07-08 | 82 | 2.18 | 8/13 | 12/13 | 2/13 | 993 | 53.2 |
| 08-09 | 11 | 2.54 | * | * | * | 1050 | 48.9 |
| 09-10 | 75 | 1.81 | 6/14 | 6/14 | 3/14 | 989 | 49.5 |
An older stop-gap option, best for the short-term, that is if you really care to sign him.
* - Kariya played just 11 games in the 2008-09 season, so no QoC and QoT number rankings available.
Pavol Demitra
| Season | GP | 5v5 Pts/60 | Qual COMP | Corsi REL QoC | Corsi REL QoT | PDO | Start OPct |
| 07-08 | 68 | 2.34 | 7/14 | 9/14 | 9/14 | 1043 | 49.2 |
| 08-09 | 69 | 2.30 | 5/13 | 6/13 | 6/13 | 1018 | 54.3 |
| 09-10 | 27 | 1.21 | * | * | * | 1024 | 47.4 |
A similar type of option as Kariya.
* - Demitra only played 27 games last season.
Alexei Ponikarovsky
| Season | GP | 5v5 Pts/60 | Qual COMP | Corsi REL QoC | Corsi REL QoT | PDO | Start OPct |
| 07-08 | 66 | 1.91 | 5/14 | 10/14 | 2/14 | 986 | 55.5 |
| 08-09 | 79 | 2.84 | 4/10* | 7/10* | 3/10* | 996 | 53.7 |
| 09-10 | 75 | 2.27 | * | * | * | 995 | 54.7 |
Ponikarovsky had the most favourable Zone Starts out of all these players and consistently faced mediocre-weak opposition over the past three seasons. Put up good numbers doing it, though. His Pts/60 in '08-09 was one of the best rates in the NHL that year.
* - I happened to save Poni's numbers before he played a game with the Pittsburgh Penguins. If you subtract the two forwards acquired (Sjostrom and Lundmark) and add in Hagman, Stajan, Blake, Mayers, and Stempniak, you get a breakdown 11/16, 13/16, and 4/16 - weak competition with good teammates. This is basically about what he's worked with the past three seasons.
- In 2008-09, if you reduce minimum GP to 20, Poni went 5/13, 8/13, 3/13 (including Antropov: 6/14, 9/14, 4/14)
Maxim Afinogenov
| Season | GP | 5v5 Pts/60 | Qual COMP | Corsi REL QoC | Corsi REL QoT | PDO | Start OPct |
| 07-08 | 56 | 1.74 | 13/16* | 12/16* | 5/16* | 940 | 54.1 |
| 08-09 | 48 | 1.63 | 13/14 | 13/14 | 7/14 | 981 | 52.7 |
| 09-10 | 82 | 2.26 | 1/15 | 4/15 | 1/15 | 995 | 49.1 |
Faced tough competition last season but usually had the best linemates available (Kovalchuk and Antropov).
* - Among the 16 Buffalo Sabres forwards who played 30+ games in 2007-08 is Steve Bernier, who actually played the majority of his games with the San Jose Sharks before the Sabres acquired him through trade. If you exclude him, Afinogenov ranks 12/15, 11/15, and 5/15, respectively.
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