Where Are They Now? – November 15, 2009
We’re now a month and a half into the season. The gap has been closed in a couple categories in terms of the performance of the new players vs the ones that got away. Here is what the Rangers have “lost” in terms of production this season through November 15, 2009.
Only players currently playing in the NHL were included.
Not included: Zherdev (KHL), Kalinin (KHL), Naslund (retired), Fritsche (AHL)
Here is what the Rangers have “gained” from the new guys:
So what’s the ?S (change in stats)?
The Rangers have been playing poorly of late going just 4-7-1 since starting the season 7-1-0 with a seven game winning streak. The new additions to the Rangers this season are not without their faults. Besides Gaborik, Prospal, and Gilroy who are plus-6, plus-6, and plus-7 respectively, every other new member of the Rangers is in the minus. The new Rangers had a lead of plus-22 over the former Rangers at the last update just 6 games ago. Now that lead is down to just plus-1.
Scoring is also down. While the Rangers were scoring at a pace of 3-4 goals per game at the start of the season, they are now scoring at a pace of only 2-3 goals per game.
Interesting Stats:
- Nik Antropov has 16 points so far this season. All assists. Maybe he should shoot some more.
- Blair Betts’ loan goal of the season is a Power Play Goal.
- Nigel Dawes is outscoring Scott Gomez.
- Colton Orr’s stats are identical to Donald Brashear’s except that Orr has more PIMs and SOGs. Colton Orr makes $400K less per year than the Donald and the fans actually liked him.
- Del Zotto (4G, 11A) has already matched Marc Staal’s total output from last season (3G, 12A) just 20 games in and is exactly half way to matching Michal Rozsival’s output from last season (8G, 22A).
- Having Kotalik and Del Zotto at the points on the Power Play is a huge upgrade from Rozsival and Redden.
- So is having Goborik and Prospal instead of Gomez and Zherdev.
If anyone would like me to include any other players, please let me know and I will add them in for the November 30 update.
About the author: Eric is an engineering student from Long Island, NY. His all-time favorite Rangers are Mike Richter and Petr Prucha. Currently, his favorite players are Henrik Lundqvist, Ryan Callahan, and Marian Gaborik. Related posts:
