Stars News & Notes: Richards’ absence by the numbers

Monday, March 16, 2009-12:04:am
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Here's a look at some numbers for the Stars since center Brad Richards went out of the lineup with a broken wrist last month.

The Stars are 5-7-1 since February 19, the first game the team played without Richards. They went 1-5-0 in the first six games, but they have turned things around recently and are 4-2-1 in their last seven games.

Here are some notes on the team's offensive output and a lot of it centers around the team's top line.

  • The Stars have scored 30 goals in the 13 games since Richards went out for an average of 2.31 per game.
  • Mike Ribeiro (6), Loui Eriksson (5) and Steve Ott (4) have combined to score 15 of those 30 goals.
  • Ribeiro, Eriksson and Ott have combined for 15 goals, 24 assists and a plus-12 rating in the 13 games, although they haven't been playing as a line the whole time.
  • Those three were put together as a line for the March 6 game in Anaheim. Since playing together on a line they have combined eight goals, ten assists and a plus-nine rating in five games. They've provided eight of the team's 12 goals during that stretch.  
  • Here's the individual breakdown of how the three have produced since being put together on March 6:
Player GP G A PTS +/-
Mike Ribeiro 5 3 4 7 3
Loui Eriksson 5 3 4 7 4
Steve Ott 5 2 2 4 2
Total 5 8 10 18 9

Power play scoring

Here are some power play stats since Richards went out:

  • The Stars are 7-64 (10.9 percent) on the power play since Richards went out of the lineup.
  • Ribeiro (2) and Eriksson (2) have scored four of the seven power play goals. Mike Modano, James Neal and Fabian Brunnstrom scored the other goals.
  • Ribeiro (4), Eriksson (3) and Mike Modano (3) have provided half of the team's 20 power play points during Richards' absence.
  • Here's a look at the team's power play scoring over the last 13 games:
Player PPG PPA PPPTS
Mike Ribeiro 2 2 4
Loui Eriksson 2 1 3
Mike Modano 1 2 3
Steve Ott 0 2 2
Darryl Sydor 0 2 2
Fabian Brunnstrom 1 0 1
James Neal 1 0 1
Chris Conner 0 1 1
Stephane Robidas 0 1 1
Trevor Daley 0 1 1
Marty Turco 0 1 1

Team scoring

Here's a look at the Stars individual scoring since Richards went out of the lineup.

Player GP G A PTS +/-
Mike Ribeiro 13 6 10 16 4
Loui Eriksson 13 5 7 12 3
Steve Ott 12 4 7 11 5
Mike Modano 12 1 5 6 -8
Fabian Brunnstrom 9 1 4 5 4
James Neal 13 4 0 4 -4
Brian Sutherby 13 1 3 4 -3
Jere Lehtinen 7 2 1 3 +1
Chris Conner 9 0 3 3 -7
Matt Niskanen 13 1 2 3 -2
Stephane Robidas 13 0 3 3 -2
Trevor Daley 13 0 3 3 -3
Nicklas Grossman 13 1 1 2 2
Darryl Sydor 13 0 2 2 -1
Raymond Sawada 5 1 0 1 0
Marty Turco 12 0 1 1 -
Brendan Morrison 7 1 0 1 2
Mark Parrish 7 0 1 1 -3
Steve Begin 9 1 0 1 -3
Mark Fistric 13 0 1 1 0
Krys Barch 13 1 0 1 2
Joel Lundqvist 7 0 0 0 -3
Landon Wilson 5 0 0 0 0
Toby Petersen 3 0 0 0 -1
Tobias Stephan 2 0 0 0 -