Friday, June 25, 2010

Bob McKenzie's Draft Rankings - A Final Look

I love the NHL draft. This may seem to be a bit of a dis-connect being a Leaf fan and all. The Leafs are not exactly a franchise known for keeping their picks, using their picks wisely, or developing the kids they do manage to grab. This is a team, after all, that once used all of their first round picks to draft three Belleville Bulls.

Each year, in the days leading up to the draft, TSN's Bob McKenzie puts together a master list of the order in which thinks players will be drafted. It's not a ranking per se - like Central Scouting or Red Line Report puts together - rather it's McKenzie's insight into what the final draft order may be, based on discussions with NHL scouts, managers, and other executives.

The following table looks at the actual draft order and how it compared with the master list assembled by McKenzie. As much as expressions like "off the board" were thrown around during the draft coverage, one look at this chart shows that McKenzie was actually very close. Sure, nobody would have seen Hishon going at 17 or Visentin at 27, but otherwise McKenzie was pretty close.

The first column is the actual draft order, followed by the drafting team, McKeznie's projected ranking and finally a differential between the projected draft ranking and where the player was actually taken.

Actual Player Picked

Team

McKenzie’s Index

Differential

1. TAYLOR HALL

Edmonton

1

-

2. TYLER SEGUIN

Boston

2

-

3. ERIK GUDBRANSON

Florida

3

-

4. RYAN JOHANSEN

Columbus

6

+2

5. NINO NIEDERREITER

NYI

7

+2

6. BRETT CONNOLLY

Tampa Bay

8

+2

7. JEFF SKINNER

Carolina

10

+3

8. ALEXANDER BURMISTROV

Atlanta

12

+4

9. MIKAEL GRANLUND

Minnesota

13

+4

10. DYLAN MCILRATH

NYR

15

+5

11. JACK CAMPBELL

Dallas

9

-2

12. CAM FOWLER

Anaheim

5

-7

13. BRANDON GORMLEY

Phoenix

4

-9

14. JADEN SCHWARTZ

St. Louis

29

+15

15. DEREK FORBORT

Los Angeles

11

-4

16. VLADIMIR TARASENKO

St. Louis

16

-

17. JOEY HISHON

Colorado

51

+34

18. AUSTIN WATSON

Nashville

14

-4

19. NICK BJUGSTAD

Florida

19

-

20. BEAU BENNETT

Pittsburgh

18

-2

21. RILEY SHEAHAN

Detroit

21

-

22. JARRED TINORDI

Montreal

23

+1

23. MARK PYSYK

Buffalo

20

-3

24. KEVIN HAYES

Chicago

49

+25

25. QUINTIN HOWDEN

Florida

26

+1

26. EVGENY KUZNETSOV

Washington

24

-2

27. MARK VISENTIN

Phoenix

60

+33

28. CHARLIE COYLE

San Jose

32

+4

29. EMERSON ETEM

Anaheim

17-12

30. BROCK NELSON

NYI34

+4



Monday, June 21, 2010

Kaberle and the Cat

Long serving Toronto Maple Leaf Tomas Kaberle's no-trade clause has an interesting wrinkle - it includes a short window each summer where the Leafs can trade him without his approval. This window opens on July 1 and runs to mid-August [or earlier/ later depending on the source]. It's very likely that Kaberle will be moved when his trade window opens, consider:

  • What little organizational depth the Leafs have is on the blue line;
  • In order to compete, the team needs to add quality forwards;
  • Kaberle's age profile doesn't quite fit with the Leafs (hoped for) window of opportunity; and
  • Kaberle seems to be the only asset of value on the roster that's even somewhat expendable.
I've been trying to think of an equivalent deal from the Leafs' past and I'm coming up short.

The Leafs have turned over their roster many times in the three decades that I've been following them but it's not often that such a long-serving player, drafted by the club, is so transparently put in position of waiting on a trade.

In terms of parallels, the only situation I can think of is Felix "the cat" Potvin.

Potvin and Kaberle's CVs cover some similar ground...

The Cat was drafted by the Blue and White and played eight seasons in Toronto after winning the starter's job over Hall of Fame goalie Grant Fuhr.

In his eight seasons as a Leaf, Potvin was a member of the NHL all-rookie team in 1993 and a finalist in the 1993 Calder voting. He made the NHL All Star team twice, led the NHL in goals-against in 1996-97 and had the best goals-against average in 1992-93. In his first full year as a Leaf, he backstopped the Leafs all the way to the Conference Finals.

Kaberle made the club as a surprise rookie and in his 10 seasons as a Leaf was a four time all-star. In his first full year as a Leaf, the team went all the way to the Conference Finals.

In 1998, the signing of UFA goalie Curtis Joseph created a log-jam in nets, making Felix expendable. After just five starts, Potvin left the Leafs in frustration and was AWOL for five weeks before being traded.

The signings of Mike Komisarek and Francois Beauchemin, along with the emergence of Luke Schenn, created a log-jam on the Leafs' blue line, making one Leafs' D expendable. The odd man out appears to be Kaberle.

Potvin, it was claimed, was never the same after a cheap goal that came late in a game against the St. Louis Blues who were leading the league at the time. An Al MacInnis slap shot from out near centre ice beat Potvin over his glove, the Leafs lost the game and Potvin lost his mojo.

Kaberle, it has often been claimed, was never the same after a cheap hit by New Jersey Devil Cam Janssen.

In the end, Potvin went to the Islanders for former top draft pick Bryan Berard. The Islanders felt that Berard's offense would never make up for the defensive deficiencies in his game. The Leafs were looking to add more youth to their system and thought their coach, former defencemen Pat Quinn, was perfectly situated to help Berard develop into a top flight defenceman. Tragically, Berard's career was derailed by an errant high stick.

If, and when, Kaberle is moved in the next few weeks, in keeping with his similarities to Potvin, I wouldn't be surprised if the return to the Leafs is once again a flawed young prospect with lots of upside.

I do hope that a Kaberle trade has a happier ending than the Potvin deal for both the Leafs and whomever it is that they acquire.



Saturday, June 19, 2010

Ball Hockey for Second Harvest

Richard Loat, of the very cleverly named Canucks Hockey Blog, is doing a cross-Canada road trip this summer and he's planning on playing a little ball hockey against local fans and bloggers to raise donations and contributions for local food banks.

A Toronto Ball hockey game is scheduled for 3PM on Thursday, July 1st (Canada Day) at Withrow Park.

Richard is looking for players for the Toronto game. If you would like to play, please get in touch with Richard via email. You'll need to bring a stick and some canned goods to the rink on July 1 (I'd also suggest a cup, hockey gloves and other assorted protective gear...)

Details for the Five Hole for Food tour

Where: Withrow Park (South of Danforth between Carlaw and Logan. By TTC: Pape or Chester Subway)

When: Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Time: 3:00 PM EST

Food Bank Beneficiary: Second Harvest

Special Guests: Duke the Dog is going to be out for the Toronto Marlies. (If it's over 90F we can bet on how long the poor guy in the costume lasts before requiring medical assistance).

Monday, June 14, 2010

The Phaneuf Era

Darryl Sittler, Rick Vaive, Wendel Clark, Doug Gilmour, Mats Sundin and Dion Phaneuf.

One of these things is not like the other.

On Monday, June 14th Dion Phaneuf was announced as the newest captain of my beloved Toronto Maple Leafs. To mark the occasion, Phaneuf read from prepared remarks with all the earnestness and awkwardness of a grade four student's first speech arts class.

I think Phaneuf is a serviceable hockey player. Coach Ron Wilson and GM Brian Burke are rather enamoured with him and their opinion counts for a whole lot more than mine. But I do have two concerns with Phaneuf wearing the C.

  1. A one-time Norris trophy nominee, Phaneuf needs to re-establish his game as one of the premiere d-men in the NHL. Is the added responsibility and pressure of being captain going to help or hinder him?
  2. Does he have the softer, off-ice skills to be the face of the Leaf franchise?
Restoring his game

Phaneuf's point totals have declined year over year for two straight seasons and his goals have been in decline for three straight. He's gone from a Norris nominated defenceman to being traded to the Leafs for an assorted pile of meh.

Given the voraciousness and non-stop coverage of the Toronto media market, is piling yet more expectations on Phaneuf's shoulders the best way for him to get his so-called game back?

Phaneuf responded to the media and overall attention of playing in hockey-mad Toronto by scoring 2 goals in 26 games, that's despite playing over 26 minutes a night.

To my eyes, he didn't appear to thrive on the new pressure and attention of playing in TO, but it's not like I have game film of his last few years in Calgary. (It should also be noted that he shot an abysmal 2.3% in Toronto and will likely regress to his norm of about 6% next year. No doubt, many will ascribe his renewed goal scoring production to the bright shiny C that has been freshly affixed to the front of his jersey. Don't believe it).

Phaneuf desperately needs to get his A-game back. I'm not sure giving him more pressure, more spotlight and more expectations is the best way for to help make that happen.

Handling the spotlight

My second concern with Phaneuf as captain is somewhat related, but rather than getting his own game back on track in this hockey mad market, I wonder if he has the stuff to be the so-called player face of the franchise.

If his speech at the newser is anything to go by, this is not a man that will impress in the scrums, shield his fellow players when they need it or distract the media hordes when things on the ice aren't going well. He may steal the pucks to draw media attention away from a loss, but I have the feeling he'd do it in warm-up.

Maybe it's just me, but I prefer my leaders to be a bit more cerebreal or for them to burn with a passion for hockey. When I looked in Wendel Clark's or Doug Gimour's eyes, I got the feeling they'd do anything to win. When I look in Dion's eyes, I get the feling he's having trouble sounding out a multi-syllabic compound word.

I don't suppose it matters much. The Leafs won't get better until the get more talent and several great players have worn the C in Toronto while the team crashed and burned.

One look around the NHL at the list of captains doesn't leave much to be impressed, or alternately, worried about.

How many Leaf Captains?

The Globe and Mail said Phaneuf is the 17th captain of the Leafs; the CBC said he's the 18th...here's the wiki list:
  1. Bert Corbeau, 1927
  2. Hap Day, 1927–37
  3. Charlie Conacher, 1937–38
  4. Red Horner, 1938–40
  5. Syl Apps, 1940–43
  6. Bob Davidson, 1943–45
  7. Ted Kennedy, 1948–55
  8. Sid Smith, 1955–56
  9. Jimmy Thomson, 1956–57
    Ted Kennedy, 1957
  10. George Armstrong, 1957–69
  11. Dave Keon, 1969–75
  12. Darryl Sittler, 1975–79
  13. Rick Vaive, 1982–86
  14. Rob Ramage, 1989–91
  15. Wendel Clark, 1991–94
  16. Doug Gilmour, 1994–97
  17. Mats Sundin, 1997–2008
  18. Dion Phaneuf, 2010
I do wonder what the correct total is?

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Leafs Aren't Toronto's Only Embarrassment

The catalyst for starting this blog over four years ago was an asinine article by Theresa Tedesco in the National Post. I was fed up with what passed for sports journalism in Toronto and took to blogger.com to vent.


For years there was easy content to be had in questioning the work of what Cox Bloc so aptly came to call the mittenstringers.

A few years ago, I stopped writing about these half-wit media articles. As I noted with the Cox Bloc boys over at Zambonic Youth: 1,000 blogging monkeys at 1,000 laptops in 1,000 basements couldn't staunch the flow of crap and nonsense that passes for sports journalism in this town.

But I simply can't resist the latest entry from the Toronto Star's Municipal Affairs columnist Royson James.

This is seriously craptacular work. I don't know that I could come up with such a steaming pile but I can certainly question it. So let us begin....
Toronto deserves more from the Toronto Maple Leafs. The hockey club owes us.
Agreed on the first part, not so sure that I'm following on the second...maybe in as much as the Toronto Star owes the citizenry some informed insight and quality writing.
The once-proud franchise in the centre of the hockey universe has long been the butt of jokes. Now, it is the answer to trivia questions on sports futility.
Wait, so it was ok for the Leafs to be the butt of jokes, but it's not ok for the same team to co-hold the record for the longest Stanley Cup playoff drought along with Los Angeles and St. Louis? That's an interesting line in the sand...
Meanwhile, in remarkable endeavours radiating beyond this hockey graveyard, Torontonians are thriving, reaching for the stars.
Did anyone else read that with Casey Kasem's voice in their head? Ok, guess it was just me...
K’Naan waves the city’s flag across the globe as his catchy anthem for Africa’s World Cup dominates the airwaves. And the industry’s top rapper, Drake, hails from the T-Dot.
Fuck I hate that waving flags song, my daughter butchers it daily. She sings it like it's a camp song for the hearing impaired.

Is this what we hold up as a success today? A tone-deaf song that sends shivers down the spines of parents everywhere?

As for the rest of James' thoughts, isn't it really just a re-hash of the well known "Rick Moranis Principle." A predictable cycle that's marked by the Leafs hitting bottom just as a Toronto born entertainer hits their peak?

When the Leafs went without a cup from 1951 to '61, I'm pretty sure the Toronto Telegram filled their pages with notes on Christopher Plummer's success and the decline of the Leafs.

But back to Mr. James...
It’s almost TIFF time, when the world’s film pilgrims trek to our screening houses, as if this were Cannes or something.

Two guys, the late David Pecaut and Tony Gagliano, had a dream to stage an annual festival of the arts and creativity that attracts the world’s best. Luminato has delivered as promised.

Canada’s banking prowess has been on display during the global economic collapse, earning praise and envy from world leaders. Toronto is its nexus.

Even our oft-criticized Mayor David Miller has been stellar on the world stage. He’s the elected chairman of C-40 global cities, 40 large cities from Addis Ababa through London, New York, Sydney and Warsaw that are committed to fighting climate change.

And since last Thursday, the Toronto City Summit Alliance has been staging an ambitious effort, Toronto Homecoming, to lure back the city’s great scientists and bright minds and world-class talent to work in the Toronto of their birth or affection.
Great. Someone should commission Dolores Claman to write a big bouncy anthem about all of this Toronto wonderfulness.
There is just one major boil on the city’s attractive buttocks. The Leafs.
Ouch. My favourite team reduced to an open sore.

But seriously, those NBA Raptors sure have certainly stepped up. I've lost track of how many NBA Titles they've amassed. What's that? Oh, ok - I've lost track of how long their consecutive playoff appearance streak is. Wait. Um, oh yeah, I forgot how much Hedo Turkoglu has down to promote the city of Toronto.

And those Jays! 17 years without a playoff appearance. They're doing the city proud! Just look at them, one second place finish in nearly a dozen years playing to crowds of 11,000.

No boil there. No siree.

Just the hockey.
The beloved hockey team, playing in the media capital of a hockey-crazed nation, is a blot on Toronto’s image.
A blot? Well, it could be if you really think a municipality's image is based on the performance of its local sports teams.

Oh, I see by the next paragraph that Mr. James certain does...
Now, wherever sports fans talk about losers, civic futility, championship droughts and sporting misery of global proportions, Toronto’s name is on the short list — up there with the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL, the Chicago Cubs and the NBA’s Sacramento Kings.
Can Royson James not even get the list right? If you're going to dump on my team, at least do your homework.

The list of crap municipalities and crap teams goes like this...San Diego hasn't won a pro-sports title since 1963; Cleveland since '64 and Buffalo since '65. Seattle last won with the Sonics in '79, and they lost that team in a heart wrenching manner.

Nobody talks about the Sacremento Kings, it's the Clippers who are mocked.

Does James not have access to wiki?

And, wait, didn't Chicago winning the Stanley Cup set this whole thing off? James says as much in his next paragraph...
The Chicago Black Hawks won the Stanley Cup this week, after 49 years of failure. Leafs fans are now hockey’s longest suffering, winless since 1967. For a country weaned on hockey this is unbearable.
Despite the logical disconnect in all of this, it should be noted that Leaf fans do indeed find this unbearable, but I have the feeling the majority of the country is quite fine with this.

Actually, I think "thrilled" is the word the rest of Canada prefers to use when referring to the Leafs lack of success.

Or "happy beyond belief."

But maybe Royson James doesn't need to know about that...
A generation of Torontonians — several, really — know nothing of Leaf glory, except from banners hanging from the roof of Maple Leaf Gardens and, now, the Air Canada Centre. What could it have been like to win three in a row in the 1940s, and again in the 1960s?
Hey, what if the media made a better effort to tell Torontonians and Leaf fans about 1967? Maybe that would help those lost generations?

You know, work "1967" in to a few more columns so people would be more aware of past glories. All of the media should be required to do it as some sort of civic duty.

But back to James' column:
The Blue Jays were fabulous. We told our children to cherish the back-to-back titles in 1991 and 1992 because it might never happen again. They scoffed. The folly of youth. Now they are young adults wondering if they’ll ever see a hockey parade up Bay St.
Wait, the Jays get another pass here? And Jays fans are wondering about a Leafs parade? Do editors get the weekend off at the Star?
Actually, the city’s descent into the hockey abyss is even more damaging and debilitating than fans realize — the annual ritual of futility numbing the senses to the depth of the loss.
For Leaf fans, there is no numbness, only greater expectation.

This city will explode like a post-season molotov cocktail hitting a Montreal cop car when the Leafs get their next playoff win. (and then Leaf fans will be mocked for celebrating early, for magnifying the commonplace into the celebratory. It's a can't lose proposition for the media machine).
Consider, since the likes of Frank Mahovolich and Red Kelly and Ted Kennedy, hockey’s best players have not worn the blue and white. Canada’s Team — the grand and glorious Maple Leafs — has failed to sign a single one of the game’s greatest players during all those championship-empty years.

Wayne Gretzky may consider this his NHL home city, but Leaf team owners managed to scuttle any chance The Great One would skate for the home side. Bobby Orr, Mark Messier, Pavel Bure, Teemu Selanne, Mario Lemieux, Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin and the most spectacular talents shone elsewhere. Leaf fans settled for Darryl Sittler, Mats Sundin and Doug Gilmour.
Ok, there's this thing called the draft. NHL teams procure the rights to players for a set period of time and then...wait, Teemu Selanne and Pavel Bure? Seriously?!? You're going for a list of the greatest players that have been in the NHL since 1967 and you're going to put those two on the list ahead of Hasek, Roy, Trottier, Leetch (who played for Toronto), Clarke, Sakic, Bourque, Robinson. Really? Canuck please.
The New York Yankees routinely sign baseball’s biggest names and brightest stars. They pursue the best. They are the Yankees. That’s what they do.

Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment has no such pretentions. Their preoccupation, it seems, is to bring smiles to the faces of the teachers’ pension fund.
Yeah, screw the NHL's salary cap!

The Leafs should be above the rules of the game and just buy the best players at every position. The Yankess do it, why can't Toronto? Different league, different sport, different CBA, different rules, but it certainly worked for the Leafs and Rangers back before the lock-out.

Is it just me or is this article a deadly combination of badly researched, horribly written, and just plain awful. It's like the Howard the Duck of sports columns....and yet there's more:
The Chicago Black Hawks’ roster is replete with Ontario lads who would no doubt revel in playing for their province’s capital city. Leafs fans must demand they come home.
Screw the CBA and binding contracts! Bring back the C-Form! If you're born in Ontario you play for the Leafs. Leaf fans must demand that your place of birth dictates where you play...and all those Canadians that have found success in Hollywood or any foreign market, you need to get your asses back home - Hiccups, Little Mosque on the Prairie and The Bridge need you.
All around us Toronto is competing and succeeding against the world’s best. Only hockey embarrasses. Forty-three years of losing. Enough is enough. Bring home the cup!
Only hockey embarrasses.

Not the Raptors, not the Jays, not the Argos, not Mel Lastman's run-in with WHO, not Corey Haim, the $1B G20 summit or the $2M fake lake at the MTCC.

Not the MFP scandal, Adam Giambrone's great couch adventures, the mountains of dead animals at Toronto's Humane Society, or Dr. Anthony Galea's work with the NFL.

Not Nazim Gillani, not the polluted beaches where Torontonians can't swim, and certainly not Toronto Police fighting a visting soccer club from Chile.

Only the Leafs (and James' latest article). Speaking of which...
Maybe one of the tens of mayoral candidates can unveil a platform to deliver a Stanley Cup parade in Toronto during the next term of city council. Forget transit. Ending our image as losers is an election winner. Guaranteed.
Should any Mayoral candidates want to take this up as a platform, I'm sure they can get some great advice from their municipal colleagues in Vancouver. It certainly has done the Canucks franchise wonders, their drought is only a non-embarrassing 39 years.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Stanley Cup Droughts

Why does someone, in the midst of your worst suffering, decide the time has come to drive home, disguised in the form of character analysis, all the contempt they have been harboring for you all these years? What in your suffering makes their superiority so fulsome, so capacious, makes the expression of it so enjoyable?
Philip Roth, American Pastoral

A strange thing happened when the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup. Amidst the celebrations by the victors and grief for the losers, a number of hockey people turned their sites on Toronto.

Yup, Toronto.

The culmination of an interesting regular season and a tremendously compelling playoff, during one of the most remarkable moments in professional sports, is apparently not the appropriate time to celebrate the victors or recognize the fight of the Flyers. No, it's the time to talk about the Leafs. More specifically, it should go without saying, it's time to point out the Leafs' failings.

You see, with the Blackhawks victory, the Leafs now have the longest current Stanley Cup drought in the NHL - an astonishing 43 years. The drought is an accomplishment the Leafs share with the Los Angeles Kings and the St. Louis Blues. Except neither the Blues nor the Kings resonate quite the same way with hockey fans or the hockey commentariat, so you won't hear much about those two other teams. No, you'll only hear about the Leafs.

You also likely won't hear about how it's not even the longest drought. The New York Rangers went 54 years without a Cup Win, but that doesn't quite fit with the need for a negative Leafs narrative, so it will be skipped.

On the bright side, all droughts eventually end.

At some point the Leafs will win the Cup. It might be in 2015 or it might be in 2050, but when the Leafs finally do raise that magnificent silver cup, I hope that the sporting press and twitterati wait a day or two before pointing out the failings of another franchise. It would be nice if the focus remained where it should: on the winners and the team they defeated.

Personally, I'm thrilled the Hawks won the Cup. Chicago is one of my favourite American cities and the Hawks were clearly the better team. It should be one helluva parade on Friday, I hope the fans revel in it.

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Tomas Kaberle and the Process of Elimination

According to TSN, at least two teams have expressed an interest in acquiring Toronto Maple Leaf Tomas Kaberle and upwards of five teams may be in the hunt.

In discussing the potential return, Leafs GM Brian Burke told the
Toronto Star, "We need to add a winger that can score, preferably with some size. And we need some secondary toughness. So those would be the areas we would try to address."

Given Burke's track record on following through on his proclamations (QV. his quest for Tavares, threatening to waive vets, promoting accountability while giving Toskala start after start) odds are the Leafs will move Kaberle for a defenceman and checking centre.

But let's give Burke the benefit of the doubt on this one and agree that the organization is looking for a winger that can score.

Sounds good, but who's out there?

In the spirit of my recent post on behavioural economics,
Amos Tversky has written about a decision making strategy called "elimination by aspects" or EBA. The idea here is that in order to make an informed decision, decision-makers establish an overall goal and then narrow the range of choices by aspects (e.g. scoring, age profile, cost to acquire). Any alternatives that do not match the selected aspect are eliminated.


Essentially, EBA is making a decision by eliminations.

So how many scoring wingers are there for Burke to chose from?

In 2009-2011, there were a total of 178 forwards that scored at a 0.51 pts/game rate...let's start to narrow down the pool:
  • 7 played less than 20 games (171)
  • 67 are centres (104)
  • 1 is a Leaf (103)
  • 16 score at 1.0 pts per game or higher and will cost more than Kaberle and what the Leafs have in the cupboard (87)
  • 12 are Unrestricted free agents (75)
  • 16 have no-trade or no-movement clauses (59)
  • 9 are 31 or older, which doesn't fit with the age profile that Burke often talks about (50)
  • 3 fit Burke's profile, but are simply not going to happen: Vanek, Cammaleri, Tavares (47)
Obviously, these 47 players aren't the absolute list. Players with No-Trade and No-Movement clauses get traded all the time (well, maybe not from the Leafs). Burke may also be ok with acquiring an older player, or the Leafs may move Kaberle as part of a package to get a player with a higher points-per-game ratio. There are also players on here who, for many reasons - price to performance ratio (Bobby Ryan, I'm looking at you), their relative value to their club, etc. - are going to be difficult, if not impossible, to pry away from their team. There may also be prospects the Leafs have in mind that didn't play enough games, or put up enough points per game in limited experience and slipped under my radar.

With that caveat out of the way, here's my list of 47 scoring wingers, one of whom just might be wearing the blue and white in the next few weeks. The list has been sorted by team.

PLAYERTEAMPOSGPGAPTS+/-PPG
1Bobby RyanANAR813529649 0.79
2Jussi JokinenCARL8130356530.8
3RJ UmbergerCBJL82233255-160.67
4Kristian HuseliusCBJL74234063-40.85
5Jakub VoracekCBJR81163450-70.62
6Rene BourqueCGYL7327315870.79
7Troy BrouwerCHIL7822184090.51
8Kris VersteegCHIL7920244480.56
9Patrick SharpCHIL82254166240.8
10T.J. GaliardiCOLL7015243960.56
11Brandon YipCOLR321181950.59
12David JonesCOLR231061610.7
13Chris StewartCOLR7728366440.83
14Wojtek WolskiPHXL80234265210.81
15James NealDAL

L

78

27

28

55

-5

0.71

16

Loui Eriksson

DAL

L

82

29

42

71

-4

0.87

17

Dustin Penner

EDM

R

82

32

31

63

6

0.77

18

DavidBooth

FLA

L

28

8

8

16

-3

0.57

19

DustinBrown

LAK

L

82

24

32

56

-6

0.68

20

Wayne SimmondsLAKR162440220.51

21

JustinWilliams

LAK

R

49

10

19

29

3

0.59

22

Antti Miettinen

MIN

R

79

20

22

42

-2

0.53

23Guillaume LatendresseMINL78271340-30.51
24Benoit PouliotMTL

L

53

17

11

28

8

0.53

25

Andrei Kostitsyn

MTL

L

59

15

18

33

1

0.56

26

Brian Gionta

MTL

R

61

28

18

46

3

0.75

27

DavidClarkson

NJD

R

46

11

13

24

3

0.52

28

Niclas Bergfors

NJD

R

81

21

23

44

-10

0.54

29

Patric Hornqvist

NSH

R

80

30

21

51

18

0.64

30

Matt Moulson

NYI

L

82

30

18

48

-1

0.59

31

Blake Comeau

NYI

R

61

17

18

35

-2

0.57

32

Kyle Okposo

NYI

R

80

19

33

52

-22

0.65

33

Milan Michalek

OTT

L

66

22

12

34

-12

0.52

34

ClaudeGiroux

PHI

R

82

16

31

47

-9

0.57

35

Radim Vrbata

PHX

R

82

24

19

43

6

0.52

36

Scottie Upshall

PHX

R

49

18

14

32

5

0.65

37

Ryane Clowe

SJS

L

82

19

38

57

0

0.7

38

Devin Setoguchi

SJS

R

70

20

16

36

0

0.51

39

David Perron

STL

L

82

20

27

47

-10

0.57

40

Brad Boyes

STL

R

82

14

28

42

1

0.51

41

David Backes

STL

R

79

17

31

48

-4

0.61

42

Steve Downie

TBL

R

79

22

24

46

14

0.58

43

MasonRaymond

VAN

L

8225

28

53

0

0.65
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