Penguins Update: Secondary Scoring Woes by the Numbers

There’s been a ton of attention drawn to the Penguins’ secondary scoring issues of late. I thought I’d dig into the numbers to see just how offensively challenged our guys have been.

Picking a starting point was a little tricky…and arbitrary. Our depth scoring began to tail off as early as late December. In the case of Evan Rodrigues, his steep production decline coincided almost perfectly with Evgeni Malkin’s return on January 11.

In the end, I chose to track our secondary scoring from the start of Teddy Blueger’s stint on IR on January 25. His absence…and the subsequent line shuffling…really seemed to accelerate our bottom-nine scoring woes.

As I wrote in a recent post, a picture’s worth a…