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Jun 14

Winnipeg Jets Prospects Evaluation 2011 to 2014

by Chris Billows in Jets Flight Control 0 comments tags: Jets Draft, Jets Improvement, Minor League Stats
In anticipation of the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, I have prepared two posts that evaluate the cumulative draft and develop progress of the Winnipeg Jets. Drafting is the single best way for a sports franchise to build success so its not surprising that Winnipeg Jets Management has made draft and develop its central strategy. This post (and the one that follows it) will break down how the Jets have done with their 2011, 2012, and 2013 draft picks up to the end of 2013-14 season (which is why this evaluation goes from 2011 to 2014). I have created a table that tracks each draft prospect taken by the Jets according to a very simple, transparent statistic called ProGames (ProGms). ProGames counts the number of NHL and AHL games that a drafted player accumulates for their new team. NHL games played count as 1.0 ProGms while AHL games played count as 0.5 ProGms, and these are accumulated across both Regular Season and Playoff Games. So a drafted player who plays 20 NHL and 10 AHL games for his new team will accumulate 25 ProGms for his team. While the goal of the draft is to have each draftee become an NHL […]

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May 27

Winnipeg Jets & Farm Team Collective Performance 2012-2014

by Chris Billows in Jets Flight Control 0 comments tags: Jets Farm Team, Jets Improvement, Minor League Stats
The professional hockey world shifted a bit when Atlanta Thrashers relocated to become the Winnipeg Jets. Not only did the NHL get affected, but so did the minor league affiliations which needed to be reestablished. Atlanta had affiliations with the Chicago Wolves of the AHL and the Gwinnett Glaidiators of the ECHL. Those were ended in the summer of 2011 when Winnipeg established a new affiliation hierarchy by forming a new team in St. John’s and establishing an agreement with a new ECHL team, the Colorado Eagles. The purpose of this post is to track how the three teams have risen and fallen along side each other to see if there is any pattern. It tracks the 2nd and 3rd seasons. You can see the first and second season comparison from 2011-13 here.   This was the second year of the operating agreement between the three franchises. The St-John’s IceCaps had a bust sophomore year. The Winnipeg Jets unfortunately carried on the mediocre tradition of the Thrashers while the Eagles had a disappointing regular season. There was not much to celebrate. In addition, unfortunately for NHL Hockey fans the 2012-13 season was almost halved due to the player lockout. The […]

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May 23

St-John’s IceCaps 2013-14 Farm Team Scoring

by Chris Billows in Jets Flight Control 0 comments tags: Jets Farm Team, Minor League Stats
The Winnipeg Jets established a new team with their existing AHL franchise in St-John’s, Newfoundland in 2011-12. The St-John’s IceCaps were a brand new team (even though the franchise moved from Winnipeg) since all of the players belonged to the Vancouver Canucks parent club. The team had a winning season, went far in the playoffs, and were loved by the Newfoundland and Labrador fans. With the St.John’s IceCaps being the primary farm team for the Winnipeg Jets, I thought it would be useful to review how the IceCaps did in their second season as a new team and track how many of those players contributed to the Winnipeg Jets in 2012-13.   # Name Pos GP Min GA SO GAA W L SOL SA SVS SAV% NHL GP NHL SA 1 Eddie Pasquale G 43 2452:57:00 114 4 2.79 15 23 4 1223 1109 0.907 * 2 Chris Carrozzi G 3 150:10:00 7 0 2.8 1 1 0 58 51 0.879 3 Mark Dekanich G 35 1913:47:00 95 2 2.98 16 14 1 909 814 0.895 * 4 Juho Olkinuora G 1 59:29:00 3 0 3.03 0 1 0 25 22 0.880 Empty Net 37:57:00 13 13 * indicates Rookie […]

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Feb 17

Winnipeg Jets 2013-14 Player Leaders and GM Analysis

by Chris Billows in Jets Flight Control 0 comments tags: Drafted Jets, GM Review, Jets Draft, Jets Goalie Stats, Jets Top Scorers
The new Winnipeg Jets 2.0 established themselves as a mediocre NHL team in 2011-12, finishing 4th in their division and missing the playoffs. Being built on the Atlanta Thrashers hockey team True North acquired a team that were just one or two steps above an expansion franchise. The 2013-14 team marks the third complete season since the Jets have returned to Winnipeg. As you will see, the team remains not much better than the old Thrashers franchise. What follows is an analysis of the 2013-14 team and how Jets Management has been successful in building the team, with a particular focus on GM Kevin Chevaldayoff and the transactions he implemented. Each player who played in 2013-14 is identified by how they were acquired by the Atlanta Thrashers/Winnipeg Jets which can be via a Trade deal, a Draft pick, a Free Agent signing, or a Waiver pickup. Below this table I analyze the team’s composition and the turnover of players who stay with the organization for the 2014-15 season.   Player Pos GP G A P +/- PIM PP SH GW OT Shots Route NS CD 1 Blake Wheeler R 82 28 41 69 4 63 8 0 4 2 225 […]

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Dec 21

Winnipeg Jets & Farm Team Collective Performance 2011-2013

by Chris Billows in Jets Flight Control 0 comments tags: Jets Farm Team, Jets Improvement, Minor League Stats
The professional hockey world shifted a bit when Atlanta Thrashers relocated to become the Winnipeg Jets. Not only did the NHL get affected, but so did the minor league affiliations which needed to be reestablished. Atlanta had affiliations with the Chicago Wolves of the AHL and the Gwinnett Glaidiators of the ECHL. Those were ended in the summer of 2011 when Winnipeg established a new affiliation hierarchy by forming a new team in St. John’s and establishing an agreement with a new ECHL team, the Colorado Eagles. The purpose of this post is to track how the three teams have risen and fallen along side each other to see if there is any pattern.   2011-12 Regular Season Team G W L OTL P Win % GF GA Division Finish Season Change    Colorado Eagles (ECHL) 72 38 28 6 82 52.78% 250 252 2nd, Mountain -7.83 pp * ↓   St-Johns IceCaps (AHL) 76 43 25 8 94 56.58% 240 216 1st, Atlantic — **   Winnipeg Jets (NHL) 82 37 35 10 84 45.12% 225 246 4th, Southeast +3.66 pp *** ↑ * same team from CHL, but considered to be an expansion franchise for the ECHL. For […]

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Nov 21

Winnipeg Jets & Atlanta Thrasher Franchise Player Leaders 1999-2013

by Chris Billows in Jets Flight Control 0 comments tags: Atlanta Thrashers Relocation, Jets Goalie Stats
The Jets are entering into their third season in Winnipeg after the franchise spending eleven seasons in Atlanta as the Thrashers. So it is not surprising to see that the Franchise Leaders for Skaters and Goalies are made up of mostly former Atlanta players. Below are Franchise leaders from 1999 to 2013 according to points, games, plus/minus, penalty minutes, wins, save percentage, and shut outs. Scater Franchise Leaders by Points Player  Cur. Pos  From  To  GP G  A  P +/-  PIM  PP  SH  GW  GT  OT  Shots  1 Ilya Kovalchuk R 2001-2002 2009-2010 594 328 287 615 -84 429 115 3 40 1 9 2,178 2 Vyacheslav Kozlov L 2002-2003 2009-2010 537 145 271 416 -38 312 51 1 20 0 4 1,211 3 Marian Hossa CHI R 2005-2006 2007-2008 222 108 140 248 21 146 39 12 16 0 3 910 4 Bryan Little WPG C 2007-2008 2012-2013 404 99 128 227 -5 125 27 2 15 0 2 817 5 Tobias Enstrom WPG D 2007-2008 2012-2013 402 36 183 219 -8 224 17 1 4 0 0 528 6 Marc Savard BOS C 2002-2003 2005-2006 184 63 133 196 -12 262 26 2 11 1 5 472 7 […]
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