Scoring by top Juniors
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 4:58 pm
As promised, this is a similar analysis for the junior ('23) class. This is a much longer list, as I started with a list of kids I was familiar with that I knew played stronger schedules, included some others based on reputation (including a few who did not play strong schedules) and added a few others as I went through the exercise. No slight intended if I left anyone off the list (let me know a name and I'd be happy to add them).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing
I sorted the list by points per game vs top 10 teams and bolded the top 5 point per game totals in each category. The number next to a players name is their overall strength of schedule according to PageStat (as of 2/5).
Again, points aren't everything in evaluating a hockey player, and they certainly aren't everything in evaluating a person. Points are a particularly funny way to look at D, but also at centers - some forwards high on this list play center and in my opinion are not great defensively, and others are lower and fantastic defensively. But for better or worse a lot of attention is paid to points by people that follow the game, and if you're going to look at points, this was intended to make it easier to look at something more meaningful than simple totals.
I plan to do the same for the '24 class, too.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing
I sorted the list by points per game vs top 10 teams and bolded the top 5 point per game totals in each category. The number next to a players name is their overall strength of schedule according to PageStat (as of 2/5).
Again, points aren't everything in evaluating a hockey player, and they certainly aren't everything in evaluating a person. Points are a particularly funny way to look at D, but also at centers - some forwards high on this list play center and in my opinion are not great defensively, and others are lower and fantastic defensively. But for better or worse a lot of attention is paid to points by people that follow the game, and if you're going to look at points, this was intended to make it easier to look at something more meaningful than simple totals.
I plan to do the same for the '24 class, too.