We’re of the mindset that goals are a pretty vital thing to have in the game of hockey, so when we talk about stats like penalties drawn, it can be helpful at times to show their actual value by attaching a goal total to them. Inspired by a Travis Yost piece on TSN from January of 2015, let’s take a look at how many goals that both Flyers, and Phantoms’ skaters have added or lost through drawing and taking penalties. To do that, we’re going to find their added goal differential.
How we get there is to first take every penalty a player draws and multiply it by their team’s power play success rate.