Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Stats, stats and yes, more stats

Every Tuesday morning, on deadline day for The Clarion, I take an hour or so to update that Klipper stats box you see on page two of the sports section. I go through the game summaries, the scoring leaders, the special teams stats, goaltending, league standings, etc. Every now and then I come across something interesting, but I usually don't have any more time to go through the stats than that hour on Tuesday morning.

So to start your Tuesday afternoon, here are all the Klipper stats you can handle and then some.

Record: 12-11-2-0, 26 points (3rd in Sherwood, 6th overall)
Goals For: 104 (5th), Goals Against: 100 (10th), Goal Differential: +4 (6th)
Home: 7-3-2, Away: 5-8
In overtime: 1 OT win, 1 SO win, 2 OT losses
Shootout: 1-0, one goal on two attempts (Taylor Duzan on Nov. 9), .500 (1st)
Scoring first: 6-4
Record vs. Sherwood: 7-7, Record vs. Bauer: 5-4-2


Power play: 23.6% (4th) Home: 23% Away: 24.5%
Penalty kill: 75.6% (10th) Home: 75.9% Away: 75.3%
Shorthanded goals for: 5 (T-2nd)
Shorthanded goals against: 0 (1st)


Penalty minutes: 796 (1st, 125 more than Flin Flon)
Major penalties: 32 (1st, 10 more than Nipawin)
Opponent PIM: 670 (1st, 11 more than La Ronge)

Goals per game
Overall: 4.16 for, 4.00 against
1st: 34 for, 31 against
2nd: 28 for, 41 against
3rd: 40 for, 26 against

Shots per game
Overall: 954 for, 834 against (average 38.16-33.36)
1st: 311 for, 269 against (average 12.4-10.8)
2nd: 306 for, 296 against (average 12.2-11.8)
3rd: 323 for, 265 against (average 12.9-10.6)

Leading after 20 7-3
Trailing after 20 2-4
Tied after 20 3-4-2
Leading after 40 7-0
Trailing after 40 3-9-1
Tied after 40 2-2-1
Outshoot opponent 10-3-2
Outshot by opponent 2-8 

Top scorers
Johnny Calkins 25-8-26-34 (10th)
Taylor Duzan 25-21-8-29 (13th)
Braeden Adamyk 25-25-15-14-29 (14th)
Scorers in top 15: Three (T-1st with La Ronge, Estevan)

Taylor Duzan is tied for the SJHL lead in goals with 21 (Ryan Andersen).
Johnny Calkins is third in assists with 26 (behind Justin Buzzeo, Doug Lindensmith).
Taylor Duzan is tied for second in shorthanded goals with three (behind Robbie Ciolfi).
Taylor Duzan is tied for second in first goals with four (behind Jesse Mireau).
Lance Tabin is second in penalty minutes with 93 (behind Jesse Mychan).
Riley Down and Justin Gerwing are tied for the SJHL lead in major penalties with five each.
Taylor Duzan has the second-longest goal streak this year at seven games, scoring nine goals from Sept. 19 to Oct. 9 (behind Ryan Andersen). Duzan is currently riding another five-game goal streak, with nine goals over that stretch. It is the longest active goal streak in the SJHL.
Sanfred King is tied for the third-longest assist streak this year at seven games, picking up 11 helpers from Sept. 23 to Oct. 16 (behind Brody Luhning, Doug Lindensmith).
John Sonntag is 11th in scoring among defencemen with 15 points.

Taylor Duzan has the only four-goal game in the SJHL this season (Nov. 9 vs. Melville) and his six points that night are tied with Justin Buzzeo and Dylan Smith for the most in a game.
David Haaf has the most penalty minutes in one game with 47 (Sept. 19 vs. La Ronge).
Johnny Calkins has the most PP assists in one game with four (Oct. 2 vs. Battlefords). Sean Flanagan is second with three the same night.
The Klippers are tied with Humboldt for most goals in a game with 11 (Oct. 3 vs. Weyburn).

Two games are tied for most total goals in a SJHL game this season and the Klippers were involved in both of them, a 9-6 loss to La Ronge Sept. 19 and a 8-7 OT loss to Melville Nov. 11.
The Klippers were also involved in both of the games with the most penalty minutes: Sept. 19 in La Ronge (180) and Oct. 16 in Flin Flon (153).
The Klippers are tied for most PP goals in a game with five (Oct. 2 vs. Battlefords).
The Klippers occupy the top three spots in single-game shots in the third period: 22 on Oct. 15 vs. Flin Flon, 22 on Nov. 3 vs. Battlefords, and 21 on Oct. 23 vs. Nipawin.

Johnny Calkins leads the Klippers in power play goals with four.
David Haaf leads the Klippers in PIM per game (4.17), followed by Riley Down (3.93), Lance Tabin (3.88), Justin Gerwing (2.89) and Johnny Calkins (2.76).

Goalie stats
A comparison of stats for the five goalies who have played for the Klippers this season: Alex Peck, Dustin Nickel, Justin McDonald, Scott Hellyer and Patrick Johnson. Aside from Johnson's one game, they are ugly.

Record: Hellyer 5-1, Johnson 1-0, Peck 4-4, Nickel 1-3, McDonald 1-4
GAA: Johnson 1.37, Hellyer 3.58, Peck 4.12, Nickel 4.52, McDonald 4.67
Save percentage: Johnson .958, Hellyer .898, Peck .878, McDonald .854, Nickel .845
Minutes: Peck 481, Hellyer 469, McDonald 244, Nickel 226, Johnson 88.


The Klippers have an average height of 5'11.5, including 5'11 for forwards, 6'0 for defencemen and 6'0 for goalies.
The Klippers have an average weight of 182.2 pounds, including 182.4 for forwards, 183 for defencemen and 179 for goalies.
Some day I'd like to go through all the rosters and see who has the biggest and smallest teams.

The Klippers have 16 players from Saskatchewan, three from Manitoba, three from Alberta, and one each from British Columbia (Lund), Quebec (Peck) and California (Rogers).

The Klippers' average attendance of 517 ranks 11th in the SJHL, just behind Melville and ahead of Notre Dame. Yorkton ranks number one with an average of 896.

5 comments:

  1. Notre Dame always has exactly 500 fans. Not accurate out of Notre Dame. Yorkton should have the highest....still terrible for a city of 18,000 people.

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  2. Yeah, you're right about ND and their attendance numbers. I went to Game 1 of the Klippers' series in Wilcox last year and there were no more than 100 in the stands (that's being very generous) and they had 635 on the game sheet.

    I'm sure they aren't the only team to fudge the numbers a bit though. Any way you slice it, Kindersley's attendance this year is a concern.

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  3. Some ideas to help attendance:
    1) give out free children tickets at the schools in Kindersley and surrounding area. If the kids come, so will the parents and grandparents.
    2) have the players go into the schools and play floor hockey and noon or read to the younger students.
    3) have some fun promotions for each game. Advertising the "pink" jersey night is a great idea. Have more of those evenings.
    4) Love what Western Pizza is doing with the free pizzas every home game. Would other businesses get on board with those promotions? Let people who are not coming to the games, know about these promotions.

    I'm sure many other people have ideas out there. Let's brainstorm some more!

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  4. Actually, I talked to one of the coaches today and he said they're going to try going into the schools to drum up more attendance.

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