As you may have read, the Let’s Go Birds blog has shut down for the time being. Unfortunately, this left Jon Whiting, one of the contributors there, with no place to post his stats. If you appreciate these kinds of posts, be sure to comment or let us know on Twitter.

All stats were provided by Jon. Any commentary added is the view of the author of the post.

First group of numbers will be Scott Eansor’s ice time. The first number in each row will be the time his shift started, the second number will be the time his shift ended and the third number will be the total ice time for that shift. (Note that these are game clock times, not time elapsed in each period.)

20:00 19:24 0:36
17:00 16:15 0:45
14:11 13:30 0:41
12:07 11:38 0:29 PK
8:47 7:50 0:57
6:12 6:07 0:05 PK (Everett PP goal scored)
5:21 4:25 0:56
1:54 1:36 0:18
0:50 0:00 0:50

Total 5:37

20:00 19:15 0:45
17:48 17:00 0:48
14:53 13:51 1:02
13:06 12:30 0:36 PK
10:19 9:40 0:39
8:16 7:26 0:50
6:53 6:22 0:31 PK (Everett PP goal scored)
4:59 4:26 0:33
2:48 2:18 0:30

Total 6:14

20:00 19:03 0:57
17:08 16:33 0:35
14:20 13:35 0:45 PK
11:23 10:35 0:48
8:00 7:05 0:55
3:22 2:47 0:35
1:30 0:03 1:27

Total 6:02

Game totals

PK 2:26
PP 0:00
EV 15:27
Total 17:53

One thing you can see if you look at the times here and the online gamesheet is that Eansor was out for the start of 6 out of the 7 power plays that Everett had. The 7th one? That penalty was on Eansor. Clearly Eansor is Konowalchuk’s guy on the penalty kill, to both take the faceoff and start it off well. Unfortunately, he was on the ice for both of Everett’s power play goals.

Next group of numbers will be face-off totals. First set will be team face-off stats by period and then the second set will be individual player stats at the dot.

Faceoffs
1st – Seattle was 7-11 (7 wins, 11 losses)
2nd – Seattle was 13-15 (13 wins, 15 losses)
3rd – Seattle was 10-8 (10 wins, 8 losses)
Overall – Seattle was 30-33 (30 wins, 33 losses)

Players

Eansor
1st – 5-5
2nd – 4-4
3rd – 4-3
Overall – 13-12

True
1st – 2-3
2nd – 6-6
3rd – 3-2
Overall – 11-11

Baltram
1st – 0-2
2nd – 0-2
3rd – 1-0
Overall – 1-4

Neuls
1st – 0-1
2nd – 3-3
3rd – 1-2
Overall – 4-6

Hickman
1st – 0-0
2nd – 0-0
3rd – 1-1
Overall – 1-1

I would guess, just looking at then numbers, that the TBird centers did a good job of not getting tossed out as Hickman was the only non-center who took a face-off and he only took one of them. If they were getting thrown out of the circle more often, you’d see more wingers with face-off numbers.

Around 50% is not a bad percentage to be at for face-offs. Ideally you would win more than you lose but where you win them is just as, if not more important than, how often you win. Consider that at least 6 of Eansor’s face-offs would have come in his own end because it was the start of an Everett power play. If he wins half of those, that’s 3 penalty kills that start off with Seattle in control of the puck and able to kill a little time. (One can reasonably assume he lost the face-off on the Everett goal that they scored :05 into the power play.)

Neuls winning 40% is also a pretty good number. With Everett being the home team and having last change, the Neuls line most likely faced either the #1 or #2 scoring lines. By winning 4 draws, he was able to keep control of the puck away from the more potent offensive groupings and may have limited scoring chances that way.

We hope you enjoyed this look at some deeper numbers and thank Jon for tracking them and allowing us to post them.