demonic
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- Mar 10, 2005
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After hearing Rutherford mention that he'd like the team to be faster, I've been thinking about what "speed" actually means in hockey. It's a complicated metric and notoriously hard to quantify, but I wanted to take a crack at it and try to measure how fast the Canucks currently are, and where they could improve. I'm breaking it down into 5 attributes: Top Speed, Acceleration, Agility, Puck Skills, and Reaction. The first three are pretty self explanatory, but the other two are a little bit more arbitrary. Puck Skills covers stick handling at full speed, puck protection, ability to catch passes, etc. Reaction is more like mental speed, the ability to read the ice and make quick decisions, respond to changes, etc. I'm going to use a scale of 1-10 for each of these, with each number representing a percentile of active players (1 is bottom 0-10 percent, 10 is top 90-100 percent). So assuming 20 players times 32 teams, that means each percentile includes 64 players, and the median for each attribute is 5.5.
Here are my rough initial rankings for the Canucks roster, which puts them at 5.33 which would be slightly below league average. That is in line with my "eye test" intuition, but I'm sure not everyone will agree with how I break it down, so feedback is definitely appreciated.
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Here are my rough initial rankings for the Canucks roster, which puts them at 5.33 which would be slightly below league average. That is in line with my "eye test" intuition, but I'm sure not everyone will agree with how I break it down, so feedback is definitely appreciated.
Name | Top Speed | Acceleration | Agility | Puck Skills | Reaction | Total |
Quinn Hughes | 8 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9.2 |
Elias Pettersson | 9 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
Conor Garland | 7 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8.8 |
Nils Hoglander | 7 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 8 |
JT Miller | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7.6 |
Tyler Motte | 9 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 7.2 |
Bo Horvat | 8 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6.8 |
Oliver Ekman-Larrson | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6.4 |
Vasili Podkolzin | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5.8 |
Tyler Myers | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5.6 |
Brock Boeser | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 5.2 |
Brandon Sutter | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4.8 |
Jason Dickinson | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4.6 |
Matthew Highmore | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4.4 |
Tanner Pearson | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3.4 |
Juho Lammikko | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Tucker Poolman | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2.2 |
Travis Hamonic | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Alex Chaisson | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1.6 |
Luke Schenn | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Average | 5.7 | 5.55 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.33 |