#penalties

A comparison of penalties taken at home games vs away games by team, measured in number of penalties taken as well as total number of PIMs. Theoretically if play and reffing are consistent across the league, you'd expect to see penalties being handed out proportionally to games played on the road/at home. Boston's skew makes sense because out of 20 games Boston has played, 13 were away and 7 were at home. Interestingly, Minnesota is now the team with the lowest PIMs as well as penalties overall.

If we look at these by penalty type, we can see that tripping, hooking, and roughing are the most commonly called penalties. Apologies for my labels I am terrible at formatting these things (and something got messed up upon export), but please hmu if you'd like to see the og data/charts that these are based on! Anyways, interesting things here: There are about 10 types of penalties that are the most common, with the rest being relatively rarely called. Of those, Boston/Toronto/Ottawa seem to be drawing the most.

And just to verify, I also graphed these by # of PIMs (because obviously some calls are two minutes, some four, some five, etc.). These show exactly what we'd expect, which is that the majority of the pens called are minors that equate to 2 minutes, so they mostly just scale. But it does show which teams are getting game misconducts/major penalties. I'm annoyed my labels aren't visible, but on the graph on the left (from left to right) the first Major - refers to Major - Check to the Head (48.2), the second is Major-Boarding, the 10-minute refers to 10-Minute Misconduct, and the last Major refers to Major-Charging.