It seems that there is no published statistics that show the primary goal of a hockey team and the individual's contribution to it.
It is implied that if Iginla or Crosby score 50+ goals or put up 100 pts they will contribute to a team winning.
For most players whose primary hockey function is not to score goals but to prevent them or hold the other team even so that the elite players on your team can score enough goals to win it is harder to quantify their contribution.
I started this excercise as I think last year's Flame team was better than the 26th place showing due to injuries to key players. Glencross, Wideman, Giordano, Cammalleri all missed significant games and playing time.
How doe the team perform when they are in the line up as opposed to when they are not in the lineup.
I took the Flames players that played between 6 and 68 games and tabulated their personal win %. Sort of like goalies and baseball pitchers.
The Flames as a team had a winning % of .47 ... the 8th place team had a winning % of .55
The players highlighted in red are no longer Flames and just for comparison purposes I added the new Flames and Highlighted them in Green
