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Vancouver Canucks Player Season Evaluation: Dan Hamhuis

By David Joun

Feb 28, 2016; Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN; Vancouver Canucks defenseman Dan Hamhuis (2) awaits the start of play against the San Jose Sharks during the second period at Rogers Arena. The San Jose Sharks won 4-1. Mandatory Credit: Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 28, 2016; Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN; Vancouver Canucks defenseman Dan Hamhuis (2) awaits the start of play against the San Jose Sharks during the second period at Rogers Arena. The San Jose Sharks won 4-1. Mandatory Credit: Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports /
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Dan Hamhuis: The Advanced Analytics

What do the numbers guys tell us about Hamhuis?

Impact on Primary Linemates

A player’s impact on linemates is shown through WOWY (With Or Without You), courtesy of Stats.HockeyAnalysis.com. WOWY can show what kind of impact a player has on his teammate by comparing the teammate’s performance with or without the player in consideration.

Matt Bartkowski    | TOI       | GF/60 | GA/60 | Goals For % | Corsi For %
With Hamhuis        | 313:19 | 2.30     | 2.49      | 48.0%           | 50.1%
Without Hamhuis | 999:53 | 1.62     | 2.76      | 37.0%            | 44.6%

Hamhuis brought stability to Bartkowski’s game. All advanced stats categories shot up for Bartkowski when playing with Hamhuis. While this will not happen ever again in Canucks history (to have the two playing on the same pairing), Hamhuis did his job while paired with an offensively-inclined Bartkowski.

Notice that although Hamhuis improved Bartkowski’s Goals Against per 60 by just 0.17, the Goals For per 60 increased tremendously, by 0.68. This means that the presence of Hamhuis on the ice helped Bartkowski lead the offense. It could also be that Hamhuis was driving the offense himself, but that does not seem to be the case. Hamhuis was just a 1.67 Goals For per 60 when away from Bartkowski.

Hamhuis had four assists when playing with Bartkowski.

Yannick Weber       | TOI         | GF/60 | GA/60 | Goals For % | Corsi For %
With Hamhuis         | 282:49 | 1.91     | 2.55     | 42.9%           | 49.7%
Without Hamhuis  | 397:45  | 1.51     | 2.41     | 38.5%           | 47.3%

When playing to Yannick Weber’s side, Hamhuis produced some odd numbers. He had no points while playing with Weber and he somehow made the pairing more defensively vulnerable. This was not the case with Bartkowski.

Weber benefitted from Hamhuis’s presence in all other categories, however. Although Weber ended the year with no goals to show for as a pending UFA, Hamhuis did his share of helping Weber.

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I suppose that the incremental rise in the Goals Against per 60 category can be explained this way. While Hamhuis is not the worst of skaters, Bartkowski was able to bail him out a few times when the 33-year-old got caught trying to stand the opposition’s blueline. Bartkowski, as poorly as he may be received among some of us, does have good wheels. Weber, however, does not.

Hamhuis led the blueline in the Corsi For department. His +2.5 percent Relative Corsi For led all Canuck defenseman this past season and is fourth on the team after the Sedins and Jake Virtanen. He is undeniably a positive for this team at a 50.2 percent Corsi For.

Next: The Verdict: What's for Next Season?

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