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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
13/14: 163 Pts (Gio, Brodie, Russell, Wideman, Butler, Smid, O’Brien)
14/15: 195 Pts (Wideman, Gio, Brodie, Russell, Engelland, Diaz, Smid)
15/16: 203 Pts (Gio, Brodie, Hamilton, Wideman, Russell, Engelland, Jokipakka, Nakladal)
16/17: 176 Pts (Hamilton, Gio, Brodie, Wideman, Engelland, Stone, Jokipakka, Kulak)
17/18: 146 Pts (Hamilton, Gio, Brodie, Hamonic, Stone, Kulak, Bartkowski)
In so far as how we can improve it, three things immediately come to mind: have the D join the offense more; make better personnel choices on the PP; and have more team success in general. But I would like to hear your thoughts.
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IMO a big part of the reason why the defensemen scoring is down is because we didn't have two good scoring lines. As the teams scores more goals, as our GF goes up our defensemen are typically going to get more points as a result.
13/14: 163 Pts
209 GF 15.7% PP
14/15: 195 Pts
241 GF 18.8% PP
15/16: 203 Pts
231 GF 17% PP
16/17: 176 Pts
226 GF 20.2% PP
17/18: 146 Pts
218 GF 16% PP
So there is some correlation between GF and Points by Defensemen. Doesn't explain it all. Not a strong correlation between PP% and Points by Defensemen but it has to have an effect as well.
Seems clear that the defensemen got a slightly higher percentage of points under Hartley than Gulutzan. Obviously Hartley's stretch pass, quick break offense may have contributed.
Part of the weak year last year in terms of points from the backend can be explained by the fact that GG didn't play two defensemen on the points for half the year on the 1st unit PP. Only Brodie had the opportunity to get points for half the year with the 1st unit and personally I'm not even sure Brodie should be on the PP at all, I don't think thats a strength of his. Were Hamilton and Giordano to have been on the 1st unit PP all year surely their points would've been higher.
Will points by defensemen change with Peters? Hard to say. But if Treliving gets a bit more offensive depth and Peters has more success than GG as a result the GF will go up and the PP% will go up and so should the Points by Defensemen as they are all somewhat related.
Overall I think the biggest thing last year was that we only had 1.5 scoring lines. So for over half the game we were a black hole offensively. If the roster can be set up so that we have 2.5 scoring lines we'll be in a much, much better position to be scoring.