Florida Panthers Ups & Downs: Week 20

Ups & Downs is a feature that looks at the individual performances of your Florida Panthers over the past week.

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2011-12 Florida Panthers
30-20-12 (72 points), 1st in Southeast Division, 3rd in Eastern Conference
Goals For: 158 (24th of 30), Goals Against: 172 (14th of 30)

Biggest Gain: Stephen Weiss

Weiss was amazing this week, scoring five points (3G/2A), the shootout game winner against Carolina, and a weekly shooting percentage of 37.5. Want more Weiss awesomeness? He leads the Panthers in On-Ice Team Shooting Percentage (Team shooting percentage while a player was on the ice) at 10.49 and On-Ice Goals For per 60 Minutes at 3.07.

Biggest Loss: Tomas Kopecky

Kopecky scored only one point, an assist against Minnesota (second point this month), and shot only eight shots. Kopecky hasn't scored a goal since January 18th against Colorado and before that December 22nd against Ottawa. Despite this, he's still is eight in team scoring, ahead of Sean Bergenheim and Mikael Samuelsson.

Goaltenders	Trend	Notes
Scott Clemmensen		Played one game, allowing two goals against Montreal.
Jose Theodore		After winning one game before this week, Theodore has won his last two games, having two *Quality Starts against Minnesota and Carolina. While he does have a .920 weekly save percentage, he also went 2-5 in shootouts.
Defensemen
Brian Campbell		Campbell scored three points (1G/2A) this week. He played a career high 32:51 minutes of ice time against Minnesota and is second in Panther defensemen *Relative Corsi (fourth overall)
Keaton Ellerby		Ellerby got himself two assists in his last two games. The Panthers are 4-0-0 when Ellerby scores.
Jason Garrison		Garrison made his return to the lineup and scored two points, including an unassisted goal against Toronto that was the game winner. The Panthers are on a five game winning streak with Garrison in the lineup.
Erik Gudbranson		Gudbranson had a career high seven hits against Minnesota. With the return of Jason Garrison, Gudbranson average ice time dropped to an average of 14 minutes, helping him earn a plus-two for the week.
Ed Jovanovski		Jovanovski played in all four games, but saw his ice time decrease in each game (he played 11 minutes against Toronto).
Dmitry Kulikov		Injury note Injured Reserve as of Jan 22, 2012, (knee) had surgery on Jan. 23 and is out until March.
Mike Weaver		The #WeaverWagon went plus-two and leads the team in Secondary Assists per 60 Minutes at 0.60.
Forwards
Krys Barch		Barch had his Panther high 4 hits against Montreal (and yet only Gudbranson fought) and in a surprise to no one, leads the Panthers in Individual Penalties Taken per 60 Minutes at 2.8.
Sean Bergenheim		Bergenheim scored five points (2G/3A) drawling one goal closer to tying his career high. Bergenheim is second in Individual Penalties Taken per 60 Minutes at 1.6 and first in Individual Penalties Drawn per 60 Minutes at 1.9. Also went 0-1 in the shootout.
Matt Bradley		Injury note Injured Reserve as of Feb 20, 2012, (concussion) has been out since Feb. 19 and his return is unknown.
Tomas Fleischmann		Fleischmann scored his 20th goal against Carolina and is just three away from tying his career high. After a disappointing January (only one point), Fleischmann has 11 points (4G/7A) in February.
Marcel Goc		With Kris Versteeg out, Goc came up big with a goal in his return to the ice.
Tomas Kopecky		See "Biggest loss"; missed Tuesday game vs Toronto, now day-to-day
John Madden		Madden returned to the ice against Toronto playing 13 minutes, going minus-one.
Shawn Matthias		Matthias scored one point, an assist against Carolina.
Mikael Samuelsson		Another great week for Samuelsson, who scored four points (1G/3A) and tied his season high hits with three against Carolina. Also gets bonus points for scoring in the shootout against Carolina.
Mike Santorelli		Santorelli only points were in Toronto, where he scored two goals and blocked two shots for the fifth time this season.
Jack Skille		Skille scored one point (an assist on Mike Santorelli's first goal) and had a season high seven hits against Minnesota.
Jerred Smithson		Zero points and a plus-one for Smithson in three games with the Panthers.
Marco Sturm		Injury note Injured Reserve as of Feb 3, 2012, (knee) had surgery on Feb. 6 and is with the team in Canada. He could return this week.
Scottie Upshall		Injury note Injured Reserve as of Feb 1, 2012, (sports hernia) had surgery on Feb. 2 and is expected to be out until the end of March at least.
Kris Versteeg		Injury note Day-to-Day as of Feb 28, 2012, (lower body) left the game on Feb. 26 against Montreal and will be out until next week at the earliest.
Stephen Weiss		See "Biggest gain"
Wojtek Wolski		After falling out of favor with the Rangers, Wolski appears to be a man on a mission. In three games with the Panthers, he has two points (G/A).

*Quality Start: A measure of whether a goaltender "gave his team a chance to win". In order to record a quality start, a goalie must have a save percentage over .912 or a save percentage between .885 and .912 while allowing less than three goals. The reason Quality Starts are so important is that teams win 77.5% of the games in which their goalie records a Quality Start.

*Corsi: A statistic originally invented by Jim Corsi, who was the goaltender coach for the Buffalo Sabres. Corsi is essentially a plus-minus statistic that measures shot attempts. A player receives a plus for any shot attempt (on net, missed, or blocked) that his team directs at the opponent's net, and a minus for any shot attempt against his own net. A proxy for possession.

*Relative Corsi: A player's Corsi value in comparison to his teammates. Relative Corsi is expressed as the player's Corsi minus the team Corsi rate. A positive value indicates a player who is better than the team average and a negative number is a player who is worse than the team average.