Categories: PenguinPoop

Penguins Projections

Now that our Penguins have arrived smack-dab at the midpoint of the season, I thought it might be fun to project what our individual production might look like for a full 82-game slate.

For the most part, there’s nothing scientific or complicated to my method. I simply multiplied current output by two.

However, there were some exceptions. In the cases of Justin Brazeau, Evgeni Malkin and Rickard Rakell, who all missed significant time due to injury, I projected their current rate of production over a full 41-game second half.

I did the same for comparative newcomer Jack St. Ivany.

For recent acquisitions Yegor Chinakhov and Brett Kulak, I projected their output since they joined the Pens. An admittedly small sample size for the former.

On the flip side, I assumed Matt Dumba, Joona Koppanen, Ryan Graves, Harrison Brunicke and Boko Imama would not play for us in the second half, so I left their numbers as is. Obviously the same for the guys we traded.

Goalies? I didn’t try to project them because…well…they’re goalies.

Player	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM
Crosby	82	48	46	94	0	60
Malkin	67	21	54	75	13	52
Rust	78	32	40	72	-6	32
Karlsson	82	6	56	62	-2	28
Mantha	82	28	30	58	16	30
Brazeau	68	30	20	50	8	10
Rakell	62	18	27	45	0	6
Novak	82	16	26	42	0	28
Letang	82	6	36	42	2	40
Kindel	76	16	20	36	-22	20
Shea	82	4	28	32	30	36
Chinakhov	44	15	15	30	0	0
Wotherspoon	82	4	26	30	2	60
Dewar	82	14	14	28	-4	16
Acciari	56	8	10	18	4	34
Lizotte	64	8	10	18	8	20
St. Ivany	50	0	17	17	9	18
Hayes, K.	42	6	4	10	-8	8
Koivunen	54	4	6	10	-10	16
Kulak	51	0	10	10	0	31
Hallander	26	2	6	8	16	4
McGroarty	32	4	2	6	-10	0
Dumba	11	1	2	3	-5	11
Heinen	13	1	1	2	1	8
Jones	14	0	2	2	2	0
Brunicke	9	1	0	1	-4	6
Graves	17	1	0	1	-4	8
Koppanen	10	0	1	1	-2	2
Tomasino	9	0	1	1	-2	0
Broz	2	0	0	0	-2	0
Clifton	30	0	0	0	-6	20
Imama	2	0	0	0	0	5
Pickering	8	0	0	0	-6	4
Poulin	2	0	0	0	-2	0