I was looking at Trocheck's stats and realized he takes a lot of penalties, but they are usually offset by the number of penalties he draws.
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The totals include majors and misconducts (both for and against), but he doesn't have many of those and has probably drawn very close to the same number against. For his career he is a net 24 in penalties drawn vs taken, though he has taken 165 minors in 555 career games. That's an average of 1 minor every 3.36 games.
After seeing those numbers, I looked at Strome, who has a penchant for taking bad penalties.
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152 minors in 621 games, so he isn't penalized quite as often (though it's still pretty often), but he has a -78 differential between penalties drawn vs taken.
I'd love to see a breakdown of penalties by zone, because it seems like Strome has taken a large number in the offensive zone. Does Trocheck take most of his in the defensive zone? I'd also like to see a breakdown of the type of penalties for both players. A roughing penalty is usually a sign of aggressive play (or aggression after the whistle), and is often offset by a matching penalty. Hooking penalties are usually the result of lazy play or getting beat, and are very rarely offset. It would be helpful to see how many powerplays other teams were given as a result of those penalties.
Does anyone know if there's a place to see those kinds of breakdowns?