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Teaser: Looking at how effective each New York Islanders D pair has been this year

Gimme a Hickey! - Bruce Bennett

Quick Teaser for a full post coming by Saturday: Below is the Corsi of each Islander D-Pair used for at least 30 minutes this year, as organized by Defensemen (Ness-Strait is at 27 minutes but I'm including it because both players have a small sample size):


Strait-Donovan (75:12): 44.0%
Strait-Carkner (32:47): 46.3%
Strait-Ness (27:20): 41.2%

Donovan-Hickey (93:35): 57.2%
Donovan-Strait (75:12): 44.0%
Donovan-Martinek (69:08) 53.0
Donovan-Carkner (31:13): 50.0%

Ness-Carkner (137:17): 52.1%
Ness-Hickey (30:45): 53.7%
Ness-Strait (27:20): 41.2%

de Haan-Hamonic:(107:40): 51.4%
de Haan-Hickey (41:29): 49.2%

Martinek-Donovan (69:08): 53.0%
Martinek-Hickey (62:25): 51.5%

Carkner-Ness (137:17): 52.1%
Carkner-Hickey (75:54): 52.2%
Carkner-Strait (32:47): 46.3%
Carkner-Donovan (31:13): 50.0%

Hickey-MacDonald (112:04): 36.8%
Hickey-Visnovsky (105:01): 52.6%
Hickey-Donovan (93:35): 57.2%
Hickey-Carkner (75:54): 52.2%
Hickey-Martinek (62:25): 51.5%
Hickey-de Haan (41:29): 49.2%
Hickey-Hamonic (40:27): 53.0%
Hickey-Ness (30:45): 53.7%

Hamonic-MacDonald(489:00): 45.0%
Hamonic-de Haan (107:40): 51.4%
Hamonic-Hickey (40:27): 53.0%

MacDonald-Hamonic(489:00): 45.0%
MacDonald-Hickey (112:04): 36.8%

Visnovsky-Hickey (105:01) 52.6%

These #s are from hockeyanalysis, and are thus missing data from the last two games (vs Ducks, vs Wings). I hope in my full post to have more complete data.

PS: You might notice one of these D-Men has played with an absurd amount of partners. I'm not sure anyone in the NHL has duplicated the feat this year - it's very odd.

Anyhow this is just a teaser and a data dump to further discussion while we don't have any games to go over. Boo Christmas.

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