I was procrastinating this afternoon, avoiding some work, and decided to delve through some silly stats, with a focus on penalties. This is very much so far this season, though it wouldn't be terribly difficult for me to go back through past seasons... hmmmmmmmm....
- Winnipeg has the most 10-min majors (9 game misconducts and 1 not-game misconduct, for roughing) while 13 teams have none.
- Only high-sticking, cross-checking, and boarding have resulted in at least one major and one minor, though there have been just 10 majors among them:
- Kerby Rychel, William Nylander, Nikolaj Ehlers, and Vladimir Tarasenko for cross-checking
- Anthony Beauvillier, Jonathan Dahlén, Roni Hirvonen, and Alexis Lafrenière for high-sticking
- Brett Howden, Janis Jérôme Moser, and Jérémy Roy for boarding
- Anaheim leads with 39 5-min majors (37 fights, 1 attempt to injure, 1 spearing), while Montreal is last with just seven! (6 fights, 1 spearing). However, New Jersey and Detroit have given up the most 5min powerplays (five each), while Columbus, Winnipeg, Nashville, and the Islanders have yet to give up one.
- There have been just eight not-game misconducts total, with New Jersey the only team with more than one, each coming alongside a minor penalty for...
- high-sticking (New Jersey's Cale Makar and Jakob Pelletier, Carolina's Bobby Brink)
- tripping (Calgary's James Winkler)
- roughing (Winnipeg's Wojtek Wolski)
- slashing (Buffalo's David Pastrnak)
- boarding (Anaheim's Drew Shore)
- elbowing (Vancouver's Evgeni Svechnikov)
- Chicago and Tampa Bay are the most violent teams, with 4 attempt to injure penalties each, while eight teams have none.
- Speaking of Carolina, they take the most minors by far with 279 (second is Washington's 223), while St. Louis takes the fewest (104). Unsurprisingly the two are also first and last in non-coincidental minors (250 and 76).
- The Hurricanes also lead several individual categories, including most high-sticking penalties (34), joint-most tripping penalties (42, tied with Vancouver and Calgary), elbowing (20, five up on second), and especially hooking (63, Dallas is second with 52).
- The other top teams include Calgary for boarding (22) and tied-first for diving (with Columbus and Ottawa, though it's only 5), New Jersey for slashing (29) and holding the stick (17), and Winnipeg for roughing - however, 80% of those are coincidental, so they're actually tied 9th for non-coincidental roughing minors, with Minnesota leading that category (18), as well as the most cross-checking penalties (22).
- Among individuals, Evgeni Svechniko and Jason Cotton are the only players with multiple 10-min misconducts while Aleksander Barkov and Victor Hedman are the only players giving up multiple 5-min powerplays (both for attempt to injure).
- Alexander Burmistrov leads for 2-min minors, whether you include coincidental minors (57) or not (53), and thus has given up the most powerplay time (111 minutes, not counting early release due to powerplay goals).
- There's not much terribly interesting among the individual penalties, other than the fact that Ian McCoshen is kinda rough guy. He's taken 12 roughing penalties (next most has just 8), 10 of which were coincidental, though he weirdly hasn't been in a single fight yet.
