the most average player in the nhl and now i interrupt your regularly scheduled news reading to bring you another message sponsored by the department of really mundane statistics i passed the final individual player stats posted here the other day through a filter to average out games goals assists points and penalty minutes for the mythical average nhl pro who played in the league this season why because it s monday and i didn t feel like writing any real code anyway after i wiped out the odd goalies in the list i came up with nhl average gp g a pts pim then i passed the list through a second time to come up with the players who had the smallest percentage difference in each of the categories marty mcinnis nyi gp g a pts pim igor kravchuk edm gp g a pts pim these two are close in games goals assists and points but are too far off in pim this leaves as the most average player in the nhl bobby carpenter was gp g a pts pim what an honor i also passed the list through with the goalies still included kravchuk and carpenter were still in the top three but rob dimaio came flying up from behind to take the title nhl average gp g a pts pim igor kravchuk edm gp g a pts pim bobby carpenter was gp g a pts pim rob dimaio tb gp g a pts pim it s all really kind of underwhelming when you think about it sg and now back to our regularly scheduled programming
