The View From Wisconsin

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Monday, April 09, 2007

2007 NHL Goals Created All-Stars

2007 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE GOALS CREATED ALL-STAR TEAMS

For those of you who are late to the conversation: I've discussed the Goals Created Formula elsewhere on this blog and on my home page. So instead of going into all the particulars, we'll just dive in.

First of all: the league PIM constant this season was 2099 PPG, divided by 34,619 PIM, giving a total of .06063145.

FIRST TEAM ALL-STARS
Center: Joe Thornton, San Jose (135.3 GC, 103.0 HART)
Left Wing: Thomas Vanek, Buffalo (124.6 GC, 81.6 HART)
Right Wing: Dany Heatley, Ottawa (131.5 GC, 112.1 HART)
Defense: Nicklas Lidstrom, Detroit (99.2 GC, 106.6 HART)
Defense: Chris Pronger, Anaheim (81.8 GC, 90.8 HART)
Goaltender: Vesa Toskala, San Jose (3.0 GC, 52.5 HART)

SECOND TEAM ALL-STARS
Center: Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh (126.4 GC, 102.8 HART)
Left Wing: Daniel Sedin, Vancouver (100.8 GC, 73.7 HART)
Right Wing: Daniel Alfredsson, Ottawa (126.5 GC, 100.6 HART)
Defense: Tom Preissing, Ottawa (76.9 GC, 42.0 HART)
Defense: Kimmo Timonen, Nashville (72.5 GC, 63.3 HART)
Goaltender: Marty Turco, Dallas (2.91 GC, 81.3 HART)

ROOKIE ALL-STARS
Center: Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh (82.1 GC, 70.6 HART)
Left Wing: Wojtek Wolski, Colorado (51.2 GC, 31.2 HART)
Right Wing: Alexander Radulov, Nashville (54.4 GC, 24.6 HART)
Defense: Matthew Carle San Jose (49.2 GC, 37.4 HART)
Defense: Marc-Edouard Vlasic, San Jose (37.9 GC, 31.6 HART)
Goaltender: Jaroslav Halak, Montreal (0.88 GC, 21.5 HART)

NO-STARS (WORST GC)
Center: Ryan Hollweg, NY Rangers (-15.9 GC, 1.2 HART)
Left Wing: Josh Gratton, Phoenix (-18.4 GC, 2.1 HART)
Right Wing: Enver Lisin, Phoenix (-17.0 GC, -6.8 HART)
Defense: Derian Hatcher, Philadelphia (-20.1 GC, -5.3 HART)
Defense: Matt Greene, Edmonton (-18.6 GC, -1.0 HART)
Goaltender: Martin Biron, Philaelphia (-1.52 GC, 36.5 HART)

HARTLESS AWARDS (Worst at position, min 10 GP/500 Min. in Net)
Center: Petr Nedved, Edmonton (-4.6 HART)
Left Wing: Jean-Francois Jacque, Edmonton (-2.1 HART)
Right Wing: Enver Lisin, Phoenix (-6.8 HART; HARTLESS Award winner)
Defense: Jay McKee, Saint Louis (-5.30 HART) and Derian Hatcher, Philadelphia (-5.26 HART)
Goaltender: Barry Brust, Los Angeles (5.3 VZNA, 3.7 HART)

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