As you glance at the chart, here are some things that jump out at me:
- If you are at the Igloo for a game and you see Rooney or LaRue as opposed to Devorski, McCauley or Leggo, you could reasonably expect there to be about three more minor penalties to be called on your team. That's quite a bit.
- Anyone on this list that jumps seven or more spots would seem to be treating the home team differently than they do the road. Either that, or they did a bunch of games in a stadium where they home team takes a bunch of penalties. That's not terribly likely, because most refs don't visit a given arena more than two or three times in a season.
| Ref | Home PIM | Change |
| Chris Rooney | 16.93 | 3 |
| Dennis LaRue | 16.52 | - |
| Mike Hasenfratz | 15.93 | 5 |
| Dave Jackson | 15.9 | (1) |
| Craig Spada | 15.79 | - |
| Steve Kozari | 15.73 | (5) |
| Chris Lee | 15.56 | (1) |
| Brad Meier | 15.54 | (1) |
| Brad Watson | 15.42 | - |
| Don Koharski | 15.37 | 1 |
| Ian Walsh | 15.27 | 2 |
| Francois St. Laurent | 15.19 | 3 |
| Eric Furlatt | 15.15 | 5 |
| Mick McGeough | 14.99 | 3 |
| Brian Pochmara | 14.7 | (5) |
| Don Van Massenhoven | 14.55 | 3 |
| Bill McCreary | 14.34 | 9 |
| Tom Kowal | 14.3 | (6) |
| Rob Shick | 14.29 | 6 |
| Dan O'Rourke | 14.24 | (4) |
| Gord Dwyer | 14.15 | (7) |
| Stephane Auger | 13.86 | 1 |
| Rob Martell | 13.75 | 5 |
| Justin St. Pierre | 13.74 | (3) |
| Dan Marouelli | 13.66 | 4 |
| Dean Warren | 13.57 | 1 |
| Dean Morton | 13.44 | 6 |
| Dan O'Halloran | 13.42 | (6) |
| Kevin Pollock | 13.41 | (9) |
| Kelly Sutherland | 13.37 | (6) |
| Marc Joannette | 13.12 | (1) |
| Kerry Fraser | 13.07 | (1) |
| Tim Peel | 12.64 | 2 |
| Greg Kimmerly | 12.59 | (2) |
| Paul Devorski | 12.05 | (1) |
| Mike Leggo | 12.03 | 0 |
| Wes McCauley | 11.85 | 0 |
Here are the previous parts in the series:
Introduction
Part 1 - High PIM
Part 2 - Low PIM
Part 3 - Home / Road Intro
2 comments:
You would think the league would be analyzing such stats on the refs and evaluating whether, or not, they should even be on the ice.
Great analysis...nice site.
The Dark Ranger
www.thedarkranger.com
Dark Ranger -
Thanks for the kind words.
I'm sure the NHL does evaluate these things. They probably even keep track of who calls the penalty, but they don't publish it. I'm not sure how much they act on it, but one of the things I plan to look at down the road is the historical data - I have box scores going back to 2001-2002, so we can see how the numbers changed for each guy over time.
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