Give It Away, Give It Away, Give It Away Now...

by Dirk Hoag on Oct 31, 2006 9:44 AM EST

Time for some silly stats today - let's look at the leaders from the NHL 2005-6 Regular Season in terms of Giveaways. Who coughed up the puck more often than a cat with bronchitis? Let's have the envelopes, please...

**Top 10 in Total Giveaways (The Roberto Duran Trophy)**
Ilya KOVALCHUK, ATL	127
Ales HEMSKY, EDM	123
Chris PRONGER, EDM	110
Jaromir JAGR, NYR	109
Sergei ZUBOV, DAL	103
Joe THORNTON, S.J	102
Brian RAFALSKI, N.J	97
Marc SAVARD, ATL	94
Mike MODANO, DAL	93
Jason SPEZZA, OTT	93

**Top 5 in 3rd Period & OT Giveaways (The Bill Buckner Award)**
Ales HEMSKY, EDM	42
Ilya KOVALCHUK, ATL	39
Bryan McCabe, TOR	36
Patrick Marleau, S.J	36
Marc SAVARD, ATL	35
Chris PRONGER, EDM	35

As a further refinement, I could add in Time On Ice to try and get a handle on who's logging more giveaways per minute of ice time. And in light of the finding last week that Giveaways actual seem to be correlated with positive results, the impression I get is more that Giveaways are indicative of having the puck more often, and trying to do more with it. As a result, some giveaways occur, but positive offensive plays occur as well, if not more often.

Later today I'll post similar numbers for Takeaways...

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Might be interesting to show the give/takeaway stat with a correlation to TOI. All of the leaders are, of course, bigger minutes guys, but it'd be interesting to see if there are some guys lower on the depth charts coughing up the puck more times before per 60 minutes.

by BDH on Oct 31, 2006 1:17 PM EST reply actions