First Quarter Penguins Grades

Our Pittsburgh Penguins are now at the end of their first quarter, so it is time to offer up my grades for players and coaching staff.

Forwards and Defensemen

Since this is only a quarter point and there isn’t a whole lot of time for me to look in too much detail, I am limiting my grading schemes. As anyone who has read anything I have written when it comes to grading, I strive to be as objective as possible. For the Forwards and defenseman, I chose to look at their Primary Points (Pnts’) per 60 minutes 5-on-5, where Pnts’ is defined as the sum of their Goals (G) and their Primary Assists (A’), the Team Goals For (TGF) per 60 minutes 5-on-5 for which they were in the ice, and the Team Goals Against (TGA) per 60 minutes 5-on-5 for which they were on the ice.

I limited my grading to those players who played a minimum of the league average of ice time (TOI) – 1 Standard Deviation from the mean. For Forwards the cut off was 103 minutes, for Defensemen the lower limit of TOI was 109.

Then I treated those data as if they were a test score, I divided the individual stat by the average stat, multiplied it by 75% (letter grade C) and recorded the grades (converted to letter grades).

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