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We’re entering the final week of the regular season, which means the weekly snapshot for 2015-16 is nearing a close. Taking a look back, even just at the titles, the tone tells the story. The Caps have had an amazing regular season that, as it has begun to wind down, has caused some guarded concern. Give a scroll down the titles and let your heart soar as you relive the winningest regular season in franchise history.
Peter started the snapshot in the Fall of 2013. At the time, I was swamped in my last year of work for grad school, an internship, and a job. The snapshot was one way of the main ways that I kept up with the team. But it didn’t just help me keep up with the team. His insights and approach furthered my understanding of things like shot attempts, puck luck, and so on. I wasn’t yet writing for RMNB at that time and, as a reader of the site, I looked forward to reading it every single Sunday.
Long story short, it was a bit of a trip for me, two years later, to be writing the snapshots on a regular basis. We all know that Peter’s tone, thought process, and way with words are unique and insightful in a way that would be impossible to replace. So, thanks for continuing to stop by the snapshot, despite the change in writer. The comments, suggestions, insights, and complaints are what made it worth it, even when it felt like a grind to get through writing it some Sunday mornings.
Okay, enough reflection and feelings, let’s talk about hockey and numbers.
Player | GP | TOI | SA% | rel SA% | GF% | PDO |
Winnik | 16 | 158.5 | 55.8 | 3.0 | 87.5 | 108.0 |
Williams | 78 | 1017.6 | 54.3 | 3.5 | 55.5 | 100.2 |
Ovechkin | 76 | 1154.3 | 53.8 | 2.8 | 61.2 | 101.9 |
Kuznetsov | 78 | 1090.7 | 53.4 | 2.2 | 58.5 | 101.4 |
Backstrom | 73 | 1044.3 | 52.6 | 1.5 | 64.1 | 102.9 |
Latta | 41 | 334.7 | 52.5 | 1.7 | 52.6 | 100.4 |
Burakovsky | 75 | 885.3 | 52.4 | 0.5 | 51.3 | 99.9 |
Galiev | 23 | 190.1 | 52.3 | 0.5 | 60.0 | 102.4 |
Oshie | 76 | 1046.1 | 52.0 | 0.2 | 61.4 | 102.1 |
Beagle | 54 | 632.0 | 50.7 | -1.6 | 55.9 | 101.1 |
Richards | 35 | 339.3 | 50.6 | -1.3 | 53.3 | 100.7 |
Johansson | 70 | 898.8 | 50.4 | -1.6 | 56.7 | 101.2 |
Chimera | 78 | 874.7 | 48.8 | -4.0 | 50.0 | 100.0 |
Wilson | 78 | 866.9 | 47.3 | -5.8 | 53.1 | 101.5 |
Player | GP | TOI | SA% | rel SA% | GF% | PDO |
Orlov | 78 | 1173.7 | 54.4 | 3.6 | 58.2 | 101.8 |
Orpik | 38 | 651.8 | 52.2 | -0.6 | 53.2 | 99.8 |
Niskanen | 78 | 1402.7 | 51.9 | 0.0 | 56.2 | 100.9 |
Schmidt | 69 | 1114.7 | 51.5 | 0.4 | 56.2 | 101.1 |
Carlson | 53 | 908.6 | 51.0 | -1.5 | 54.8 | 100.4 |
Alzner | 78 | 1347.6 | 50.5 | -2.2 | 55.3 | 101.0 |
Chorney | 54 | 647.6 | 50.3 | -2.0 | 57.1 | 103.0 |
According to WOI, Orpik was +20 in 5v5 shot attempts tonight, his 3rd highest game total since 2005 (+24 vs BUF 3/7/15 +21 vs MTL 11/25/9)
— Pat Holden (@pfholden) April 3, 2016
Via WOI, after his monster possession game tonight, Orpik is now second among Caps D in score-adjusted Corsi at 52.2% (4th in rel Corsi)
— Pat Holden (@pfholden) April 3, 2016
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