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Does a club that out-shoots its opponents also out-score them? Who creates chances and gives few back? Put any two team measures on the axes; better is always up and to the right.
2026-27 seasonour ratings are for 2026-27
PP xGF against PP%32 clubs
Colorado Avalanche have the best combined rank: 3rd in power play % (44.4%) and 9th in power-play expected goals per game (0.72). 6 of 32 clubs are better than the middle on both. The two barely move together (r = -0.05).
Both measures, rankedordered by the average of the two ranks
| # | Team | PP% | PP xGF |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44.4%#3 | 0.72#9 | |
| 2 | 42.9%#4 | 0.72#8 | |
| 3 | 33.3%#8 | 0.74#5 | |
| 4 | 50.0%#2 | 0.71#13 | |
| 5 | 25.0%#14 | 0.77#1 | |
| 6 | 18.8%#17 | 0.75#3 | |
| 7 | 7.7%#20 | 0.76#2 | |
| 8 | 71.4%#1 | 0.69#22 | |
| 9 | 33.3%#9 | 0.70#14 | |
| 10 | 33.3%#7 | 0.70#19 | |
| 11 | 0.0%#25 | 0.75#4 | |
| 12 | 28.6%#11 | 0.69#21 | |
| 13 | 25.0%#15 | 0.70#17 | |
| 14 | 0.0%#21 | 0.71#12 | |
| 15 | 0.0%#26 | 0.73#7 | |
| 16 | 40.0%#5 | 0.65#29 | |
| 17 | 18.2%#18 | 0.70#16 | |
| 18 | 28.6%#10 | 0.69#25 | |
| 19 | 28.6%#12 | 0.69#23 | |
| 20 | 33.3%#6 | 0.63#31 | |
| 21 | 0.0%#32 | 0.73#6 | |
| 22 | 0.0%#28 | 0.71#11 | |
| 23 | 0.0%#29 | 0.72#10 | |
| 24 | 28.6%#13 | 0.67#28 | |
| 25 | 0.0%#23 | 0.70#18 | |
| 26 | 0.0%#27 | 0.70#15 | |
| 27 | 20.0%#16 | 0.68#27 | |
| 28 | 14.3%#19 | 0.69#24 | |
| 29 | 0.0%#22 | 0.68#26 | |
| 30 | 0.0%#30 | 0.69#20 | |
| 31 | 0.0%#24 | 0.63#32 | |
| 32 | 0.0%#31 | 0.63#30 |
What the two axes are
Power play %. Power-play goals per power-play opportunity. It says nothing about how many power plays a club draws.
Power-play expected goals per game. Expected goals on the power play per game. It rewards drawing penalties as well as a dangerous power play.
A lower-is-better measure is drawn with its axis flipped, so the best clubs are always up and to the right. The dashed lines are the league median; r is how closely the two measures move together across the 32 clubs. Methodology →
