Speculation: Should penalties drawn be a recorded stat?

[thadd]

Listening into the after game radio show and hearing that Perron wasn't one of the three stars and that really annoyed me.

Drew three penalties and scored two points. If he hadn't drawn those penalties we wouldn't have gotten onto the PP and the momentum of the game would have been totally different.

Shouldn't this be a recorded stat?

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[Mc5RingsAndABeer]

Yep! It's essentially ~0.15 to 0.20 goals plus 2 minutes of virtually no offense from the other team.

It's absolutely huge for the team. I guess it would also be important to make sure that coincidental penalties aren't recorded as being drawn.

 

[ohheyhemsky]

It's a very important stat. It's like walking/stealing bases for baseball. It doesn't directly get you a point (unless he steals home), but it gets you much closer to it.

 

[Supermassive]

There would be a lot of noise associated with the stat.

And it would glorify divers like Dustin Brown.

Not really in favor of it being an official stat.

 

[syz]

It's definitely recorded somewhere, just not by the NHL.

I remember Hall and Skinner both led the league in their rookie year (until Hall got hurt.)

Not sure where you would find the stats now though.

 

[thadd]

There would be a lot of noise associated with the stat.

And it would glorify divers like Dustin Brown.

Not really in favor of it being an official stat.

I see where you're coming from, but there aren't a ton of guys exactly like Dustin Brown.

I wonder if arbitration judges give a damn about this stat. If they did then maybe goals and assists wouldn't be as important and maybe overnight PPG players aren't worth 7 million dollars.

If such a stat were recorded, Datsuk would probably be making 11M per year.

 

[Aceboogie]

Absolutely. Not only is that a prime opp for your team to set up and get shots. It kills two minutes of the game were the opponent is relatively unable to attack.

It would encourage diving tho

 

[thadd]

Absolutely. Not only is that a prime opp for your team to set up and get shots. It kills two minutes of the game were the opponent is relatively unable to attack.

It would encourage diving tho

Yup but

1: 4 on 4 hockey is entertaining.
2: League to hand out stiffer suspensions for diving.

 

[me2]

http://www.extraskater.com/players/standard?team=edm

http://www.behindthenet.ca/nhl_stat...+13+14+29+30+32+33+34+63+67+41+42+43+44+45+46

 

[AlowlyMcOilersfan]

http://www.extraskater.com/players/standard?team=edm

http://www.behindthenet.ca/nhl_stat...+13+14+29+30+32+33+34+63+67+41+42+43+44+45+46

ty for the links

 

[SeriousBusiness]

Perron seems to draw at least one penalty a game.

 

[Captain Catatomic]

it might encourage diving so i don't think they'd go for it.

 

[thadd]

So eberle has the best ratio, but Perron has drawn the most penalties. Interesting. Thanks a lot!

 

[thadd]

Perron seems to draw at least one penalty a game.

He's taken 16 and drawn 19, while Eberle has taken 3 and drawn 10.