Rangers By The Numbers Analytics - Game #24 Preview: Rangers vs. Lightning

Lightning vs Rangers coverage

Time	Monday, 7:00 EST	TV	NHLN/MSG/SUN
Season Series	0-2	Last Meeting	Bolts 4-3, 11/26/14
The Enemy	Raw Charge	Scoring Leaders	R. Nash 16-9-25 S. Stamkos 15-13-28

Rangers	CATEGORY	Lightning
11-8-4	SEASON RECORD	16-6-2
26 (3rd Metro)	Points	34 (1st Atlantic)
1.13 (17th NHL)	Standing Points Per Game	1.42 (T-2nd NHL)
Won 2	Streak	Won 3
2.91 (9th)	Goals For Per 60 (GF60)	3.50 (1st)
2.61 (15th)	Goals Against Per 60 (GA60)	2.58 (14th)
16.9 (20th)	Power Play %	24.4 (3rd)
80.0 (16th)	Penalty Kill %	79.8 (18th)
10.4 (16th)	PIM / GP	9.2 (5th)
30.4 (11th)	Shots For / GP	29.8 (19th)
29.4 (15th)	Shots Against / GP	27.8 (7th)
50.2 (16th)	5v5 Shots For %	55.2 (3rd)

49.9 (17th)	SCORE ADJUSTED CORSI	53.7 (5th)
50.0 (20th)	Raw 5v5 Corsi	52.9 (6th)
50.37 (17th)	Within 1 5v5 Corsi	53.3 (5th)
49.1 (20th)	Score Adjusted Fenwick	54.6 (4th)
106.19 (10th)	5v5 Corsi Pace / 60 (ranked low to high)	103.19 (3rd)
2.69 (4th)	5v5 Goals For / 60	2.92 (1st)
2.20 (15th)	5v5 Goals Against / 60	2.07 (11th)
49.84 (17th)	5v5 OZS %	55.65 (4th)
9.23 (5th)	5v5 Shooting %	9.52 (1st)
92.4 (16th)	5v5 Save %	91.7 (20th)
D. Boyle +7.06 M. Hunwick +4.42	5v5 Corsi Rel % Leaders (min 100 min)	N. Kucherov +7.63 O. Palat +6.91
D. Girardi -7.76 J. Fast -6.07	5v5 Corsi Rel % Anchors (min 100 min)	B. Boyle -10.02% J. Brown -8.09%
R. Nash 3.59 M. St. Louis 2.49	5v5 Points / 60 Leaders (min 100 min)	N. Kucherov 3.42 A. Killorn 3.26

Expected Lines

Rangers

Forwards:

Martin St. Louis - Derek Stepan - Chris Kreider

Mats Zuccarello - Derick Brassard - Rick Nash

Carl Hagelin - Kevin Hayes - Lee Stempniak

J.T. Miller - Dominic Moore - Jesper Fast

Defensemen:

Marc Staal - Dan Girardi

Ryan McDonagh - John Moore

Matt Hunwick - Kevin Klein

Goalie: Henrik Lundqvist

Healthy scratch: Anthony Duclair

Injured: Dan Boyle (flu), Tanner Glass (mumps)

Lightning

Forwards:

Alex Killorn - Steven Stamkos - Ryan Callahan

Ondrej Palat - Tyler Johnson - Nikita Kucherov

Jonathan Drouin - Valtteri Filppula - Brett Connolly

Brenden Morrow - Brian Boyle - Cedric Paquette

Defensemen:

Anton Stralman - Victor Hedman

Jason Garrison - Andrej Sustr

Radko Gudas - Matthew Carle

Goalie: Ben Bishop

Healthy scratches: J.T. Brown, Mark Barberio, Vladislav Namestnikov

Injured: None

Hextally Even Strength Shooting Rates By Zone (Relative To League Average):

Credit: War-On-Ice.com

5v5 Usage:

Rangers Forwards

Rangers Defense

Lightning Forwards

Lightning Defense

Credit: War-On-Ice.com

Goalies:

Ben Bishop is 7-0 with a .953 SV% career against the Rangers.

Adjusted Save Percentage and Low/Medium/High Probability Shot Zones explained HERE.

Credit: War-On-Ice.com

Your Tanner Glass Moment of Zen:

Tanner Glass has posted a 0% Corsi 15 times in his career. Here's some context: pic.twitter.com/KelCkjXnNd

— Tanner Glass Facts (@T_Glass_Facts) December 1, 2014

Stats compiled from: nhl.com, puckon.net, war-on-ice.com, and stats.hockeyanalysis.com

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