Casual hockey fan here, mostly a Red Wings fan. I’ve been failing to find a stat that shows how many power play goals are scored for each player who gets a penalty. My thought is, if your team is scored against while you’re in the box, your team needs you and it was a costly penalty. Conversely, if your team is not scored against while you were in the box, they can play without you just fine, so go ahead and take a penalty.
Does this metric not exist? There’s stats for power play goals scored, of course, and each team’s penalty kill ratio, but I want to know whose team can most and least effectively kill the penalty per penalized player.
EDIT: I’m also curious about “retributive power play goals” For example, player A gets tripped by player B, and player A then scores on the power play.
I would think the gist of this could be inferred from looking at PK% with and without the player in question.
Hm, there are some players who are somewhat of a PK specialist, yeah? Would the players who aren’t often offered the privilege of regularly getting to play the PK skew the result? I’m mostly interested in the consequences of penalty-prone players.