Here's the latest little post idea I've been thinking about.  I've been wanting to jump into a little bit more detail on some some key statistics so I thought every week or so I would pick a different stat and have a look at the leaders, surprises and disappointments.

Today I'm looking at one of our favourite stats around here.  Time On Ice.  The more a player plays the more likely he is to score... makes sense doesn't it.

All of the stats are up to and included the games played on 08/11/10.

If you need more detail click here to download the complete file with all NHL players.

THE LEADERS

Defensemen

Duncan Keith - 17 gms with 1+11=12 and 29:06 / gm
Zdeno Chara - 11 gms with 2+3=5 and 27:26 / gm
Dan Boyle - 12 gms with 1+8=9 and 26:06 / gm
Tobias Enstrom - 14 gms with 2+9=11 and 26:00 / gm
Ryan Whitney - 12 gms with 0+10=10 and 25:57 / gm

Wow, did not expect to see Tobias Enstrom up so high.

Forwards

Alex Ovechkin - 14 gms with 8+10=18 and 22:05 / gm
Sidney Crosby - 15 gms with 9+10=19 and 21:54 / gm
Eric Staal - 14 gms with 6+5=11 and 21:45 / gm
Jonathan Toews - 17 gms with 5+9=14 and 21:22 / gm
Ilya Kovalchuk - 14 gms with 3+5=8 and 21:21 / gm

Blake Comeau just missed the cut... yeah you read that right.

Power Play Time

Evgeni Malkin - 14 gms with 4+6=10 and 6:53 / gm
Sidney Crosby - 15 gms with 9+10=19 and 6:27 / gm
James Wisniewski - 12 gms with 2+10=12 and 6:12 / gm
Alex Goligoski - 15 gms with 3+6=9 and 6:01 / gm
Alexander Steen - 12 gms with 3+6=9 and 5:55 / gm
Brad Richards - 13 gms with 6+12=18 and 5:47 / gm
Dan Boyle - 12 gms with 1+8=9 and 5:44 / gm
Tobias Enstrom - 14 gms with 2+9=11 and 5:34 / gm
Chris Kunitz - 15 gms with 3+4=7 and 5:30 / gm
Alexander Ovechkin - 14 gms with 8+10=18 and 5:30 / gm
Doug Weight - 14 gms with 2+7=9 and 5:21 / gm

We are NOT recommending you go and pick up Doug Weight.  We are recommending you go and pick up anybody else on this list.

Short Handed Time

Blair Betts - 15 gms with 3+3=6 and 4:40 / gm
Todd Marchant - 15 gms with 0+1=1 and 4:29 / gm
Kimmo Timonen - 15 gms with 1+6=7 and 4:28 / gm
Willie Mitchell - 13 gms with 1+4=5 and 4:24 / gm
Rostislav Klesla - 13 gms with 0+3=3 and 4:22 / gm
Dan Hamhuis - 5 gms with 0+1=1 and 4:20 / gm
Dan Girardi - 14 gms with 1+5=6 and 4:16 / gm
Darroll Powe - 15 gms with 2+3=5 and 4:10 / gm
Derek Morris - 11 gms with 1+2=3 and 4:06 / gm
Marc Methot - 13 gms with 0+7=7 and 4:02 / gm

Looking at that list you'll quickly realize how different fantasy and real hockey is.

THE SURPRISES - players getting more PT than we expected
Brandon Dubinsky - 14 gms with 10+4=14 and 21:05 / gm
Blake Comeau - 14 gms with 3+6=9 and 21:02 / gm
Cam Fowler - 9 gms with 1+2=3 and 20:54 / gm
Matt Taormina - 15 gms with 3+2=5 and 20:49 / gm
Ryan Callahan - 13 gms with 4+9=13 and 20:40 / gm
Alex Pietrangelo - 12 gms with 0+6=6 and 19:35 / gm
Jordan Eberle - 12 gms with 4+4=8 and 18:45 / gm
Andrew Ladd - 14 gms with 4+9=13 and 18:41 / gm
Clarke MacArthur - 13 gms with 7+4=11 and 17:32 / gm
Jeff Skinner - 14 gms with 5+7=12 and 16:44 / gm

Some of these are good surprises and some of them are bad ones.

THE DISAPPOINTMENTS - players getting less PT than we hoped/expected

Nikita Filatov - 13 gms with 0+2=2 and 11:41 / gm
Kyle Turris - 10 gms with 3+2=5 and 12:31 / gm
Scottie Upshall - 14 gms with 3+1=4 and 12:41 / gm
Mike Comrie - 14 gms with 0+5=5 and 12:45 / gm
Nikolay Zherdev - 13 gms with 4+0=4 and 12:55 / gm
Tyler Seguin - 11 gms with 3+2=5 and 13:09 / gm
Cody Franson - 13 gms with 3+4=7 and 15:47 / gm
Wojtek Wolski - 12 gms with 1+6=7 and 15:49 / gm
Jakub Voracek - 13 gms with 1+6=7 and 15:50 / gm
Derick Brassard - 13 gms with 5+4=9 and 16:01 / gm
Dustin Penner - 12 gms with 4+2=6 and 16:31 / gm

Three Jackets make the list.  Who are they putting out there?

If you have a look at the file and want to add and surprises/disappointments feel free to stick them in the comments.

Also any suggestion on what next week's Stat O' The Week should be?