The Penguins and Process. How Did We Stack Up?
Process.
As hockey fans, we hear a lot about it these days.
Sites like Natural Stat Trick are devoted to tracking every conceivable metric in an attempt to define whether a team’s process is successful. I marvel at the amount of detailed information available. It’s truly mind boggling. (I also wonder who sits and compiles all this data.)
Wind up on the sunny side of these metrics? Your process is considered good. If not?
It’s generally held that the Penguins’ process (if not our execution) is sound. So I decided to see where we ranked league-wise in a handful of 5v5 metrics, including Corsi, Shots for Percentage (SF%), Goals for Percentage (GF%) and Expected Goals for Percentage (xGF%), along with Shooting Percentage (SH%) and Save Percentage (SV%).
All data is courtesy of Natural Stat Trick. Fifty percent is break-even for shot-based stats.
Corsi
Corsi measures shot activity, basically how many shots a team attempts, including missed and blocked shots, versus how many it allows.
Consistent with coach Mike Sullivan’s attacking, puck-retrieval style, the Pens ranked 12th among 32 NHL teams with a Corsi of 51.31.