Debut Edition of Scoring Impact, with Matt Young

Matt Young, Host of "Scoring Impact"

In an age of fancy stats that are helping redefine the game of hockey, a new form of fancy stat was released by TSN in Canada on Tuesday.  The name of the stat is scoring impact and it's not nearly as complicated as Corsi, Fenwick and the rest of them. 

Scoring impact is simply put, giving two points to the player who scores the goal rather than just the simple one point.  The design is to make it worth more than the assist, simply because you can get two assists on a goal but only one guy can put the biscuit in the basket for the goal. 

The goal is the harder feat to accomplish and it is indeed goals that are accounted for on the scoreboard, so why wouldn't the goal be worth more than an assist.  This would allow us to truly measure the more impactful players in the game. 

If we look at the CCHL scoring leaders, Springfield's Ryan Getzlaf is out ahead by six points in the overall scoring lead; but he only has seven goals on the year.  Would he still be the CCHL scoring leader if we measured things in terms of scoring impact?  Let's take a look. 

REAL CCHL SCORING LEADERS:

Team Player Goals Assists Points
SPR        Getzlaf 7 33 40
CGY       Crosby 16 18 34
WIS        Draisaitl 10 24 34
SPR        Arvidsson 18 14 32
SAN Zetterberg 10 21 31
SPR         Saad 14 14 28
HAM Laine 14 14 28
CGY Pavelski 8 20 28
FOR Reinhart 7 21 28
CGY Panarin 13 14 27

CCHL SCORING IMPACT LEADERS:
Team Player Goals Assists Points Scoring Impact
CGY Crosby 16 18 34 50
SPR         Arvidsson 18 14 32 50
SPR        Getzlaf 7 33 40 47
WIS        Draisaitl 10 24 34 44
SPR         Saad 14 14 28 42
HAM Laine 14 14 28 42
SAN Zetterberg 10 21 31 41
CGY Panarin 13 14 27 40
CGY Pavelski 8 20 28 36
FOR Reinhart 7 21 28 35

What can we conclude from this?  We can conclude that while Arvidsson and Crosby may not have as many points, their contributions may indeed be greater to their team than the actual scoring leader Ryan Getzlaf. 

Of course, we're not going to change the scoring race and point system anytime soon but it's interesting to see how the scoring leaders change when you analyze it by the fancy stat scoring leaders. 

From time to time we'll review this stat as the season goes on to see just who is making the most significant impact. 

Thanks for reading the inaugural edition of scoring impact.