Dissecting the Penguins’ roster for ‘empty-calorie scorers’

Photo by Rob Carr/Getty ImagesThe Penguins aren’t back in action until Friday night in Arizona against the Coyotes. So let’s play around with some stats and have a little fun on this extra day off, shall we?

Alan, one of our colleagues over at SB Nation’s Lightning site Raw Charge, wrote an interesting article that took an NHL player’s “empty-calorie scoring” level, a hockey cliché that depicts someone who scores a ton of points but doesn’t help their team win in other facets, and analyzed it using the newly-popular WAR (Wins Above Replacement) metric.

For those unfamiliar, WAR is a single stat that tries to measure how many more wins a player contributes than a “replacement level” player,…