I remember a decade or so ago I used to have fun looking at the catchall NHL statistics that were available. Back then we had Goals vs Threshold (GvT) created by Tom Awad and Hockey Analysis Rating (HART) created by David Johnson, but both of those no longer exist. We also had Hockey-Reference’s Point Shares (PS), which do still exist, but use an outdated model that uses plus/minus to determine defensive performance. However, the modern trend is to use Goals Above Replacement (GAR) or its derivatives and Game Score (GS). So today I wanted to look at the various GAR and GS models for the current Pittsburgh Penguins roster. So today we are going to look at GAR from three sites: Evolving-Hockey, HockeyStats, and HockeyAlchemy as well as looking at GS from HockeyStatCards and for old times sake PS from Hockey-Reference. I was also going to include the MoneyPuck GS stat, but theirs doesn’t have an offense/defense breakdown so it doesn’t translate well into graphs.
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