Thursday, March 13, 2014

NHL 2014 Week 21 Player Rankings

The NHL season has completed its 21st week, the Olympics are over, the trade deadline has passed, and here are my bi-weekly player rankings. They are ranked according to goals, assists, points, +/-, PIMs, PPP, SHP, GWG, shots, hits, blocked shots, and faceoff wins; using modified Z-Scores. Statistics were collected up to and including Tuesday March 11.


rank Name Team SCORE
1 Sidney Crosby PIT 12.5
2 Ryan Getzlaf ANA 11.2
3 Corey Perry ANA 10.2
4 Joe Pavelski SAN 10.2
5 Alex Ovechkin WAS 10.0
6 Jamie Benn DAL 9.7
7 Jonathan Toews CHI 9.7
8 Chris Kunitz PIT 9.3
9 Claude Giroux PHI 9.3
10 Anze Kopitar LOS 9.3
11 Tyler Seguin DAL 8.9
12 Phil Kessel TOR 8.8
13 Patrick Sharp CHI 8.6
14 Patrice Bergeron BOS 8.6
15 David Krejci BOS 8.4
16 John Tavares NYI 8.2
17 Matt Duchene COL 8.2
18 Evgeni Malkin PIT 8.1
19 Patrick Kane CHI 7.9
20 Nicklas Backstrom WAS 7.8
21 David Backes STL 7.8
22 Patrick Marleau SAN 7.6
23 Joe Thornton SAN 7.6
24 Martin St. Louis NYR 7.5
25 Alexander Steen STL 7.4
26 Bryan Little WPG 7.3
27 Kyle Turris OTT 7.3
28 Ryan Kesler VAN 7.2
29 Marian Hossa CHI 7.2
30 Nathan MacKinnon COL 7.1
31 Jarome Iginla BOS 7.1
32 James van Riemsdyk TOR 7.0
33 Gabriel Landeskog COL 7.0
34 Milan Lucic BOS 6.9
35 Jaromir Jagr NJD 6.8
36 Jeff Carter LOS 6.7
37 Antoine Vermette PHO 6.7
38 Brandon Dubinsky COB 6.6
39 Erik Karlsson OTT 6.5
40 Kyle Okposo NYI 6.5
41 Tyler Johnson TAM 6.5
42 Logan Couture SAN 6.5
43 Ryan Johansen COB 6.4
44 Matt Niskanen PIT 6.4
45 Dustin Byfuglien WPG 6.3
46 Eric Staal CAR 6.3
47 Blake Wheeler WPG 6.3
48 Duncan Keith CHI 6.3
49 P.K. Subban MON 6.3
50 T.J. Oshie STL 6.2
51 Max Pacioretty MON 6.1
52 James Neal PIT 6.1
53 Paul Stastny COL 6.1
54 Tomas Plekanec MON 6.1
55 Ondrej Palat TAM 5.9
56 Andrew Ladd WPG 5.8
57 Henrik Zetterberg DET 5.8
58 Ryan O'Reilly COL 5.8
59 Taylor Hall EDM 5.7
60 Tommy Wingels SAN 5.7
61 Shea Weber NAS 5.7
62 Jaden Schwartz STL 5.7
63 Derek Stepan NYR 5.7
64 Martin Hanzal PHO 5.6
65 Brad Marchand BOS 5.6
66 Adam Henrique NJD 5.5
67 Zach Parise MIN 5.5
68 Jason Spezza OTT 5.5
69 Drew Doughty LOS 5.5
70 Clarke MacArthur OTT 5.4
71 Brent Seabrook CHI 5.4
72 Brandon Saad CHI 5.4
73 Alex Pietrangelo STL 5.4
74 Bobby Ryan OTT 5.4
75 Kevin Shattenkirk STL 5.4
76 Scott Hartnell PHI 5.4
77 Thomas Vanek MON 5.3
78 Wayne Simmonds PHI 5.3
79 Brad Richards NYR 5.3
80 Brent Burns SAN 5.2
81 Dion Phaneuf TOR 5.2
82 Radim Vrbata PHO 5.2
83 Jussi Jokinen PIT 5.1
84 Victor Hedman TAM 5.1
85 Ryan McDonagh NYR 5.1
86 Jordan Staal CAR 5.0
87 Oliver Ekman-Larsson PHO 5.0
88 Jordan Eberle EDM 5.0
89 Nazem Kadri TOR 5.0
90 Mats Zuccarello NYR 4.9
91 Nick Bonino ANA 4.9
92 Zdeno Chara BOS 4.9
93 Brayden Schenn PHI 4.8
94 Jakub Voracek PHI 4.8
95 Jason Pominville MIN 4.8
96 Daniel Sedin VAN 4.8
97 Valtteri Filppula TAM 4.7
98 Troy Brouwer WAS 4.7
99 David Perron EDM 4.7
100 Evander Kane WPG 4.6
101 Mike Fisher NAS 4.6
102 Reilly Smith BOS 4.6
103 Andrei Markov MON 4.5
104 Nick Foligno COB 4.5
105 Keith Yandle PHO 4.5
106 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins EDM 4.4
107 Andrej Sekera CAR 4.4
108 Jeff Skinner CAR 4.4
109 Frans Nielsen NYI 4.4
110 Mike Richards LOS 4.4
111 Derick Brassard NYR 4.3
112 Torey Krug BOS 4.3
113 Mark Giordano CGY 4.3
114 Andrew Cogliano ANA 4.3
115 Craig Smith NAS 4.3
116 David Legwand DET 4.3
117 Mike Ribeiro PHO 4.3
118 Andrew Shaw CHI 4.2
119 Sean Couturier PHI 4.2
120 Mikael Backlund CGY 4.2
121 Niklas Kronwall DET 4.1
122 Chris Kreider NYR 4.1
123 Alexander Semin CAR 4.1
124 Travis Zajac NJD 4.1
125 Brendan Gallagher MON 4.1
126 Johnny Boychuk BOS 4.1
127 Erik Johnson COL 4.0
128 Cam Fowler ANA 4.0
129 Rick Nash NYR 4.0
130 Tyler Bozak TOR 4.0
131 Mikko Koivu MIN 4.0
132 Henrik Sedin VAN 4.0
133 Vladimir Tarasenko STL 4.0
134 Jason Garrison VAN 3.9
135 Artem Anisimov COB 3.9
136 John Carlson WAS 3.9
137 Marek Zidlicky NJD 3.9
138 Ryan Suter MIN 3.9
139 Patrik Elias NJD 3.8
140 Olli Jokinen WPG 3.8
141 Joel Ward WAS 3.8
142 James Wisniewski COB 3.7
143 Alex Killorn TAM 3.7
144 Chris Higgins VAN 3.7
145 Johan Franzen DET 3.7
146 Dustin Penner WAS 3.7
147 Shane Doan PHO 3.7
148 Matt Moulson MIN 3.6
149 Justin Williams LOS 3.6
150 Jay Bouwmeester STL 3.6
151 Mark Scheifele WPG 3.6
152 Marc-Edouard Vlasic SAN 3.5
153 Joffrey Lupul TOR 3.5
154 Mason Raymond TOR 3.5
155 Cam Atkinson COB 3.5
156 Nino Niederreiter MIN 3.5
157 David Desharnais MON 3.5
158 Patrik Berglund STL 3.4
159 Cody Eakin DAL 3.3
160 Patric Hornqvist NAS 3.3
161 Alex Goligoski DAL 3.3
162 Andy Greene NJD 3.3
163 R.J. Umberger COB 3.2
164 Dustin Brown LOS 3.2
165 Matthew Carle TAM 3.1
166 Jason Chimera WAS 3.1
167 Kimmo Timonen PHI 3.1
168 Mike Green WAS 3.1
169 Zack Smith OTT 3.1
170 Jiri Hudler CGY 3.1
171 Derek Roy STL 3.1
172 Radko Gudas TAM 3.1
173 Kevin Bieksa VAN 3.1
174 Jason Demers SAN 3.0
175 Scottie Upshall FLA 3.0
176 Vladimir Sobotka STL 3.0
177 Antoine Roussel DAL 3.0
178 Jarret Stoll LOS 3.0
179 Ben Lovejoy ANA 3.0
180 Mikkel Boedker PHO 3.0
181 Pavel Datsyuk DET 3.0
182 Lars Eller MON 2.9
183 Daniel Alfredsson DET 2.9
184 Carl Soderberg BOS 2.9
185 Jack Johnson COB 2.9
186 Ryan Callahan TAM 2.9
187 Tyler Ennis BUF 2.9
188 Olli Maatta PIT 2.8
189 Niklas Hjalmarsson CHI 2.8
190 Ryan Garbutt DAL 2.8
191 Mathieu Perreault ANA 2.8
192 Mikael Granlund MIN 2.8
193 Michael Frolik WPG 2.8
194 Rich Peverley DAL 2.8
195 Chris Stewart BUF 2.8
196 Teddy Purcell TAM 2.8
197 Matt Cooke MIN 2.7
198 Marcel Goc PIT 2.7
199 Nick Bjugstad FLA 2.7
200 Christian Ehrhoff BUF 2.7
201 Valeri Nichushkin DAL 2.7
202 Brian Gionta MON 2.6
203 Cody Franson TOR 2.6
204 Slava Voynov LOS 2.6
205 Justin Abdelkader DET 2.6
206 Jamie McGinn COL 2.6
207 Mike Santorelli VAN 2.6
208 Jake Muzzin LOS 2.5
209 Benoit Pouliot NYR 2.5
210 Matt Read PHI 2.4
211 John Mitchell COL 2.4
212 Dwight King LOS 2.4
213 Nathan Gerbe CAR 2.4
214 Brad Boyes FLA 2.4
215 Tyson Barrie COL 2.4
216 Marcus Kruger CHI 2.3
217 Gustav Nyquist DET 2.3
218 Hampus Lindholm ANA 2.3
219 Dan Girardi NYR 2.3
220 Cody Hodgson BUF 2.3
221 Mikhail Grabovski WAS 2.3
222 Francois Beauchemin ANA 2.3
223 Brandon Sutter PIT 2.3
224 Devin Setoguchi WPG 2.3
225 Kyle Palmieri ANA 2.3
226 Brenden Dillon DAL 2.3
227 Boone Jenner COB 2.2
228 Jacob Trouba WPG 2.2
229 Andrew MacDonald PHI 2.2
230 Saku Koivu ANA 2.2
231 Brian Campbell FLA 2.2
232 Tomas Tatar DET 2.1
233 Roman Josi NAS 2.1
234 Brian Boyle NYR 2.1
235 Tyler Toffoli LOS 2.1
236 P.A. Parenteau COL 2.1
237 Mark Letestu COB 2.0
238 Mark Streit PHI 2.0
239 Dan Boyle SAN 2.0
240 Nick Leddy CHI 2.0
241 Justin Braun SAN 2.0
242 Steve Ott STL 1.9
243 Carl Gunnarsson TOR 1.9
244 Sean Bergenheim FLA 1.9
245 Eric Gelinas NJD 1.9
246 Nate Thompson TAM 1.9
247 Erik Cole DAL 1.9
248 Carl Hagelin NYR 1.9
249 Marcus Johansson WAS 1.8
250 Andre Benoit COL 1.8
251 Justin Faulk CAR 1.8
252 Kris Versteeg CHI 1.8
253 Steve Downie PHI 1.8
254 Drew Stafford BUF 1.8
255 Fedor Tyutin COB 1.8
256 Cal Clutterbuck NYI 1.8
257 Sean Monahan CGY 1.7
258 Michael Ryder NJD 1.7
259 Tomas Hertl SAN 1.7
260 Dan Hamhuis VAN 1.7
261 Marc Methot OTT 1.7
262 Max Talbot COL 1.7
263 Colin Wilson NAS 1.7
264 Eric Fehr WAS 1.7
265 Jiri Tlusty CAR 1.6
266 Barret Jackman STL 1.6
267 Boyd Gordon EDM 1.6
268 Lee Stempniak PIT 1.6
269 Mark Stuart WPG 1.6
270 Kyle Brodziak MIN 1.6
271 Daniel Winnik ANA 1.6
272 Michael Grabner NYI 1.5
273 Steven Stamkos TAM 1.5
274 Gregory Campbell BOS 1.5
275 Jan Hejda COL 1.5
276 Nick Spaling NAS 1.5
277 Dainius Zubrus NJD 1.5
278 Matt Stajan CGY 1.5
279 Sam Gagner EDM 1.5
280 Jake Gardiner TOR 1.4
281 Vincent Lecavalier PHI 1.4
282 Matt Martin NYI 1.4
283 Matt Cullen NAS 1.4
284 Tom Gilbert FLA 1.4
285 Kris Russell CGY 1.4
286 Ales Hemsky OTT 1.4
287 Aleksander Barkov FLA 1.3
288 Lauri Korpikoski PHO 1.3
289 Alex Chiasson DAL 1.3
290 Dougie Hamilton BOS 1.3
291 Mika Zibanejad OTT 1.3
292 Robyn Regehr LOS 1.3
293 Braydon Coburn PHI 1.2
294 Loui Eriksson BOS 1.2
295 Paul Gaustad NAS 1.2
296 Nikolai Kulemin TOR 1.2
297 Thomas Hickey NYI 1.2
298 Brad Richardson VAN 1.2
299 T.J. Brodie CGY 1.2
300 Marcus Foligno BUF 1.2
301 Derek MacKenzie COB 1.2
302 Zemgus Girgensons BUF 1.2
303 David Moss PHO 1.1
304 Matt Irwin SAN 1.1
305 Milan Michalek OTT 1.1
306 Brandon Bollig CHI 1.1
307 Tobias Enstrom WPG 1.1
308 Ryan Ellis NAS 1.1
309 Jared Spurgeon MIN 1.1
310 Matt Bartkowski BOS 1.1
311 Jordie Benn DAL 1.1
312 Rob Klinkhammer PHO 1.1
313 Josh Gorges MON 1.1
314 Christopher Tanev VAN 1.0
315 Andrew Desjardins SAN 1.0
316 Jared Cowen OTT 1.0
317 Michael Stone PHO 1.0
318 Jonathan Huberdeau FLA 1.0
319 Patrick Dwyer CAR 1.0
320 Derek Morris PHO 1.0
321 Alex Galchenyuk MON 1.0
322 Michael Raffl PHI 1.0
323 Dany Heatley MIN 1.0
324 Ray Whitney DAL 0.9
325 Riley Nash CAR 0.9
326 David Jones CGY 0.9
327 Tyler Myers BUF 0.9
328 Charlie Coyle MIN 0.9
329 Luke Schenn PHI 0.8
330 Danny DeKeyser DET 0.8
331 Matt Beleskey ANA 0.8
332 Bryan Allen ANA 0.8
333 Brenden Morrow STL 0.8
334 Tomas Fleischmann FLA 0.8
335 Roman Polak STL 0.8
336 Zach Bogosian WPG 0.8
337 Michael Cammalleri CGY 0.8
338 Nikita Nikitin COB 0.8
339 Tuomo Ruutu NJD 0.8
340 Brock Nelson NYI 0.8
341 Nicklas Grossmann PHI 0.8
342 Travis Hamonic NYI 0.8
343 Marco Scandella MIN 0.8
344 Johnny Oduya CHI 0.7
345 Pascal Dupuis PIT 0.7
346 Brooks Orpik PIT 0.7
347 Dominic Moore NYR 0.7
348 Chris Neil OTT 0.7
349 Ryan Murray COB 0.7
350 Brad Stuart SAN 0.7
351 Martin Erat PHO 0.7
352 Teemu Selanne ANA 0.6
353 Sergei Gonchar DAL 0.6
354 Colin Greening OTT 0.6
355 Karl Alzner WAS 0.6
356 Pat Maroon ANA 0.6
357 Vernon Fiddler DAL 0.6
358 Kris Letang PIT 0.6
359 Cory Conacher BUF 0.6
360 Seth Jones NAS 0.6
361 Shawn Horcoff DAL 0.6
362 Jay McClement TOR 0.5
363 Morgan Rielly TOR 0.5
364 Jonas Brodin MIN 0.5
365 Daniel Briere MON 0.5
366 Casey Cizikas NYI 0.5
367 Manny Malhotra CAR 0.5
368 Jannik Hansen VAN 0.5
369 Ryan Smyth EDM 0.5
370 Dennis Wideman CGY 0.5
371 Brooks Laich WAS 0.4
372 Matthew Nieto SAN 0.4
373 Justin Schultz EDM 0.4
374 Eric Brewer TAM 0.4
375 Brandon Prust MON 0.4
376 Josh Bailey NYI 0.4
377 Shawn Matthias VAN 0.4
378 Andrej Meszaros BOS 0.4
379 Nick Holden COL 0.3
380 Matt Calvert COB 0.3
381 Dmitry Kulikov FLA 0.3
382 Jeff Petry EDM 0.3
383 Zack Kassian VAN 0.3
384 Alec Martinez LOS 0.3
385 Andrew Ference EDM 0.3
386 Lance Bouma CGY 0.3
387 Tanner Glass PIT 0.3
388 John Moore NYR 0.3
389 Jesse Winchester FLA 0.2
390 Daniel Paille BOS 0.2
391 Joe Colborne CGY 0.2
392 Zbynek Michalek PHO 0.2
393 Chris Phillips OTT 0.2
394 Ben Smith CHI 0.2
395 Ryan Stanton VAN 0.2
396 Tyler Kennedy SAN 0.2
397 Patrick Wiercioch OTT 0.2
398 Mark Arcobello EDM 0.2
399 Trevor Daley DAL 0.2
400 Justin Fontaine MIN 0.1
401  Nikita Kucherov TAM 0.1
402 Kyle Quincey DET 0.1
403 Alexander Edler VAN 0.1
404 Maxim Lapierre STL 0.1
405 David Savard COB 0.1
406 Erik Gudbranson FLA 0.1
407 Eric Nystrom NAS 0.1
408 Matt Hendricks EDM 0.1
409 Ron Hainsey CAR 0.1
410 Chris Kelly BOS 0.0
411 Jay Harrison CAR 0.0
412 Willie Mitchell LOS 0.0
413 Tom Wilson WAS 0.0
414 Trevor Lewis LOS 0.0
415 Rene Bourque MON 0.0
416 Eric Gryba OTT 0.0
417 Drew Miller DET 0.0
418 Sami Vatanen ANA -0.1
419 Michael Del Zotto NAS -0.1
420 Darren Helm DET -0.1
421 David Clarkson TOR -0.1
422 Nail Yakupov EDM -0.1
423 Cody McLeod COL -0.1
424 Jonathan Ericsson DET -0.1
425 Sami Salo TAM -0.1
426 Brendan Smith DET -0.2
427 Kyle Clifford LOS -0.2
428 Ladislav Smid CGY -0.2
429 Paul Ranger TOR -0.2
430 Dennis Seidenberg BOS -0.2
431 Scott Hannan SAN -0.3
432 Blake Comeau COB -0.3
433 Deryk Engelland PIT -0.3
434 Damien Brunner NJD -0.3
435 Nate Guenin COL -0.3
436 Gabriel Bourque NAS -0.3
437 Michal Handzus CHI -0.3
438 Chris Butler CGY -0.3
439 Ian Cole STL -0.3
440 Ryan Malone TAM -0.4
441 Alexei Emelin MON -0.4
442 Jakob Silfverberg ANA -0.4
443 David Schlemko PHO -0.4
444 Joe Vitale PIT -0.4
445 Cory Sarich COL -0.4
446  Calvin de Haan NYI -0.4
447 J.T. Brown TAM -0.4
448 Chris Thorburn WPG -0.4
449 Joakim Andersson DET -0.4
450 Mark Barberio TAM -0.4
451 Tom Sestito VAN -0.5
452 Michael Bournival MON -0.5
453 Raphael Diaz NYR -0.5
454 Travis Moen MON -0.5
455 Tomas Kopecky FLA -0.5
456 David Booth VAN -0.5
457 Stephen Gionta NJD -0.5
458 Steve Oleksy WAS -0.5
459 Brian Flynn BUF -0.5
460 James Sheppard SAN -0.6
461 Ryane Clowe NJD -0.6
462 Mark Fistric ANA -0.6
463 T.J. Galiardi CGY -0.6
464 Anton Volchenkov NJD -0.6
465 Craig Adams PIT -0.6
466 Adam McQuaid BOS -0.7
467 Jamie McBain BUF -0.7
468 Erik Condra OTT -0.7
469 Matt Greene LOS -0.7
470 Viktor Stalberg NAS -0.7
471 Shawn Thornton BOS -0.7
472 Paul Martin PIT -0.7
473 Brandon Pirri FLA -0.7
474 Emerson Etem ANA -0.7
475 Anton Stralman NYR -0.7
476 Todd Bertuzzi DET -0.7
477 Kyle Chipchura PHO -0.8
478 Nathan Horton COB -0.8
479 B.J. Crombeen TAM -0.8
480 Patrick Bordeleau COL -0.8
481 Bryan Bickell CHI -0.8
482 Mark Fayne NJD -0.8
483 Dave Bolland TOR -0.8
484 Marc Staal NYR -0.8
485 Dan Carcillo NYR -0.8
486 Dale Weise MON -0.8
487 Steve Bernier NJD -0.8
488 Jordan Nolan LOS -0.9
489 Peter Holland TOR -0.9
490 Colin McDonald NYI -0.9
491 Ryan Murphy CAR -0.9
492 Ryan Reaves STL -0.9
493 Andrei Loktionov CAR -0.9
494 Corey Tropp COB -1.0
495 Brett Bellemore CAR -1.0
496 Matt D'Agostini BUF -1.0
497  Dylan Olsen FLA -1.0
498  Kevan Miller BOS -1.0
499 Kevin Klein NYR -1.0
500 Brian McGrattan CGY -1.1