Carolina Defense Rates Among League's Best
by Bob Wage on Apr 6, 2009 1:25 AM EDT
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Defense by committee. It's not the first time you have heard the term, especially when talking about the Carolina Hurricanes blueline. But this "committee" is starting to make a name for itself.
Recently, Scott Cullen, of TSN.com wrote an article rating each defensive unit in the league. As his basis, he uses a complicated formula which takes into consideration a plethora of information.
The TSN.ca Player Rankings are generated using a statistical formula that includes the following stats: goals per game, assists per game, plus-minus, power play goals, shorthanded goals, game-winning goals, shots on goal, blocked shots, hits, giveaways, takeaways, faceoff won-loss and penalty differential (drawn - taken).
The method used probably has it's faults, for instance Dennis Seidenberg is rated higher than Tim Gleason, although Seidenberg does have better offensive numbers and is one of the NHL leaders in blocked shots. Regardless, as long as the method is consistent, it should provide a valid comparison of the league's defenses.
According to Cullen's report, the Hurricanes blueliners are ranked sixth best in the NHL. Since the results are weighted toward the top four, I took the results one step further and added in each player's average salary, from that grouping. Guess which team is getting the most bang for the buck?
1. Boston
- Chara 7.5
- Wideman 3.9
- Ference 1.4
- Ward 2.5
- TOTAL 15.3 million
2. San Jose
- Dan Boyle 6.7
- Vlasic 1.1
- Ehrhoff 3.1
- Blake 5
- TOTAL 15.9 million
3. Detroit
- Lidstrom 7.4
- Rafalski 6
- Kronwall 3
- Stuart 3.7
- TOTAL 20.1 million
4. Chicago
- Keith 1.4
- Seabrook 3.5
- Campbell 7.1
- Barker 2.7
- TOTAL 14.7 million
5. Pittsburgh
- Gonchar 5
- Orpik 3.7
- Letang .8
- Scuderi .7
- TOTAL 10.2 million
6. Carolina
- Corvo 2.6
- Pitkanen 4
- Babchuk 1
- Seidenberg 1.2
- TOTAL 8.8 million
Credit must be given to the players for their outstanding performance, especially during the past two months. But Jim Rutherford is once again looking like one of the better executives in the league. We will take a closer look at that a bit later.
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Corvo is worth his salary cap number in truck-loads of gold!!!
Speaking of salary cap money- one of my friends pointed me toward this website about an hour ago. It is “set” for the ’Canes, but you can click on any team. I thought that it was pretty cool-
by PittsburghCaniac on Apr 6, 2009 1:40 AM EDT reply actions
It is a tad bit misleading with him using Seidenberg over Gleason (as Bubba mentioned). If you swap the two, the total changes to $10.35 million (slightly more than Pittsburgh). Thankfully, Pitkanen is under contract for 2 more seasons, Gleason for 3, and Corvo for 1, so if we can get Babchuk to re-sign we will bring back our top 4. I wouldn’t be surprised if Corvo is gone after next season, especially if someone like McBain is ready to step into his role.
agreed totally … McBain, Rodney, Borer, Carson … all four likely have a place in the NHL in the next year or so.
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