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Statistically Speaking: Winnipeg Jets End of the Year Power Rankings

We are happy to introduce a new column from Tim Hiebert (Follow Tim on twitter @JetsStatsGuy). Tim is a “numbers guy” who enjoys analyzing the Winnipeg Jets using rankings and statistics.

In his first column for Illegal Curve, Tim takes a look back and gives you his end of the year power rankings for the players.

		Key Stats
	Player	GP	G	A	PTS	(+/-)	PIM	Shots	SH%	TOI/G	Hits	Blocks	Analysis	Status
1	Andrew Ladd	48	18	28	46	10	22	121	14.9	19:40	98	26	Career year from the captain who lead the team in scoring and learned how to not take a dumb penalty.	Signed for 3 more years
2	Blake Wheeler	48	19	22	41	-3	28	129	14.7	18:48	90	39	Lead team in goals and did not have a negative +/- in last 10 games. (+9 during streak, -3 for the year)	Restricted Free Agent
3	Evander Kane	48	17	16	33	-3	80	190	8.9	20:27	147	22	Played hurt and still found a way to score 17 goals. Lead all forwards in average TOI.	Signed for 5 more years
4	Zach Bogosian	33	5	9	14	-5	29	85	5.9	23:07	79	50	Stats aren’t amazing but his all around play is. Still only 22 years old. Needs to stay healthy.	Restricted Free Agent
5	Ondrej Pavelec	44	21-20-3, 0 SO, 0.905 SV%, 2.80 GAA										Came around after slow start but played too many games and was too inconsistent.	Signed for 4 more years
6	Bryan Little	48	7	25	32	8	4	84	8.3	19:47	32	19	Solid but unspectacular season. A possible Lady Byng Finalist one day?	Restricted Free Agent
7	Dustin Byfuglien	43	8	20	28	-1	34	142	5.6	24:24	80	47	A unique player with tremendous offensive ability that once again had too many defensive mistakes.	Signed for 3 more years
8	Tobias Enstrom	22	4	11	15	-8	8	21	19	22:31	8	9	Point per game player before getting hurt the first time. Did not miss a game first three years in league.	Signed for 5 more years
9	Grant Clitsome	44	4	12	16	10	18	56	7.1	18:50	82	54	Got stronger as the season went on. Finished tied with Ladd for the team lead in +/- at +10.	Unrestricted Free Agent
10	Alexander Burmistrov	44	4	6	10	0	14	55	7.3	15:38	106	16	Had some ups and downs but was an excellent penalty killer and saw his ice time increase down the stretch.	Restricted Free Agent
11	Zach Redmond	8	1	3	4	0	12	13	7.7	19:34	12	8	Solid play when given the chance and of course made a miraculous recovery from his injury.	Restricted Free Agent
12	Mark Stuart	42	2	2	4	5	53	40	5	16:42	111	81	Does everything you could want from a 5/6 defencemen. Managed a +5 while only having 4 points.	Signed for 1 more year
13	Nik Antropov	40	6	12	18	6	16	56	10.7	15:57	76	27	Uninspiring season from one of the few veterans on the team. May have played last game as a Jet.	Unrestricted Free Agent
14	Jim Slater	26	1	1	2	-3	19	22	4.5	10:27	41	12	Faceoff specialist had hard time getting big minutes when healthy. Only managed 2 points in 26 games.	Signed for 2 more years
15	Kyle Wellwood	39	6	9	15	0	2	37	16.2	12:58	10	10	Ice time and offense went way down from previous season. Averaged on hit every 10 games.	Unrestricted Free Agent
16	James Wright	38	2	3	5	-5	31	32	6.3	11:35	43	17	Waiver wire pickup showed some nice potential with his high energy. Great penalty killer.	Signed for 1 more year
17	Al Montoya	7	3-1-0, 1 SO, 0.899 SV%, 2.91 GAA										Didn’t get much time to shine but was very good in his starts. Had Jets only shutout.	Unrestricted Free Agent
18	Eric Tangradi	36	1	3	4	-4	22	44	2.3	10:18	81	21	Hitting machine showed some nice chemisty on line with Santorelli and Burmistrov at end of year.	Restricted Free Agent
19	Aaron Gagnon	10	3	0	3	2	2	11	27.3	8:09	7	4	Limited role on 4th line in 10 games but did manage to score 3 goals on only 11 shots.	Unrestricted Free Agent
20	Ron Hainsey	47	0	13	13	-8	10	52	0	22:51	36	123	2nd straight season without a goal for a player with a lot of TOI. Mistakes were often glaring.	Unrestricted Free Agent
21	Olli Jokinen	45	7	7	14	-19	14	85	8.2	17:07	91	27	Big free agent signing was a giant flop. Team worst -19 +/- and was terrible on the point on the power play.	Signed for 1 more year
22	Paul Postma	34	4	5	9	-5	6	32	12	15:01	17	27	Showed some nice offensive ability scoring 4 goals but is still lacking on defense which prevents more TOI.	Restricted Free Agent
23	Mike Santorelli	10	0	1	1	-5	0	14	0	13:43	5	0	Scored a big shoot out goal but that was about it in his cup of coffee with the team late in the season.	Unrestricted Free Agent
24	Antii Miettinen	22	3	2	5	-3	2	26	11.5	12:38	29	7	A season to forget as injuries derailed him from the start and was involved in the Redmond accident.	Unrestricted Free Agent
25	Derek Meech	16	0	1	1	0	2	5	0	14:41	24	12	Steady, boring season as he stepped in after injuries to Enstrom and Bogosian.	Unrestricted Free Agent
26	Chris Thorburn	42	2	2	4	-5	70	13	15.4	6:19	65	19	Averaged just over 6 minutes per game but did his role and even managed to score a couple times.	Signed for 1 more year
27	Anthony Peluso	5	0	2	2	1	14	4	0	4:59	7	0	Actually gave the team a spark when he played. Hard to dress him and Thorburn in the same game.	Restricted Free Agent
28	Patrice Cormier	10	0	0	0	-3	7	4	0	3:53	15	2	Hard to do anything with 4 minutes of ice time per game. Fairly invisible.	Restricted Free Agent
29	Mark Scheifele	4	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	11:31	4	0	Was given a very small opportunity at the start of the season before having a great season for the Barrie Colts.	Signed for 3 years
30	Jacob Trouba	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Signed late in the season after his time at Michigan ended but did not see any game action.	Signed for 3 years
31	Arturs Kulda	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	Signed mid-season for depth but never saw game action.	Restricted Free Agent

Anything you notice? Any numbers stand out?

Share your ideas about this article or a possible future column about statistics and your Winnipeg Jets with Tim aka @JetsStatsGuy on twitter.

David Minuk

Working hard on a daily basis to provide the latest Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose news for our readers and listeners. I also appear on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show every Saturday on our YouTube channel as well as the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after every single Jets game. And I occasionally jump in the play-by-play booth at Canada Life to provide colour analysis during Manitoba Moose games.