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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Regular-season ES effectiveness

The following is a list what happens when individual Red Wings are on the ice in even-strength situations, both total goals for and against and average goals for and against per 60 minutes.

FORWARDS (ranked by GF/60)
Name GF-GA GF/60-GA/60
McCarty
2-0, 5.22-0.00
Ritola
1-1, 5.19-5.19
Datsyuk
83-38, 4.00-1.83
Zetterberg
71-37, 3.71-1.93
Cleary
45-25, 3.46-1.92
Holmstrom
40-26, 3.10-2.01
Samuelsson
45-22, 2.75-1.34
Team Average
2.65-1.78
Hudler
37-24, 2.62-1.70
Abdelkader
1-1, 2.61-2.61
Filppula
44-27, 2.43-1.49
Franzen
34-23, 2.15-1.46
Hartigan
5-7, 1.86-2.60
Kopecky
21-19, 1.80-1.63
Maltby
16-24, 1.60-2.40
Draper
21-25, 1.53-1.82
Downey
6-6, 1.41-.141
Helm
1-3, 1.27-3.81
Drake
9-22, 0.96-2.34

DEFENSEMEN (ranked by GA/60)
Name GF-GA GF/60-GA/60
Chelios
31-23, 2.12-1.58
Kronwall
55-28, 3.19-1.63
Stuart
10-4, 4.15-1.66
Lidstrom
81-38, 3.55-1.66
Rafalski
66-37, 3.01-1.69
Lebda
34-34, 1.77-1.77
Team Average
2.65-1.78

Meech
6-11, 1.04-1.90
Lilja
42-46, 2.10-2.30
Quincey
0-3, 0.00-2.81
Ericsson
2-5, 1.14-2.85

NOTES: Brad Stuart had a great nine games with the Wings. There's not much difference defensively between six of the seven Red Wings' defensemen with Lilja's performance lagging. Of course, Lidstrom and Rafalski's performance is coming against the top lines. Offensively, Kronwall, Lidstrom, Rafalski and Stuart are the Wings' top performers on the blue line.
Up front, it's amazing that Datsyuk led the team in being on the ice for 83 goals for. Topping defensemen like Lidstrom and Rafalski, who get more ice time, is remarkable. I'm sure a lot of you chuckled seeing McCarty at the top of the list. He was on the ice for just 23 even-strength minutes this season. Looking at these number's Cleary's return to form might be the key to a successful second scoring line. And for as many good feeling as there are about Franzen right now -- and I love the guy -- not many fans would guess that the team scored more at even strength with Samuelsson or Hudler on the ice than Franzen.

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