As I'm sure most of you know, Kent Wilson has been tracking scoring chances for each and every Flames game so far this season.  I've put together a chart collecting the data for each of the first ten games the Flames have played and will continue to do so in ten game segments.  I promise the next one will be a bit more timely!  At any rate, I think scoring chances are another good tool for fans to use when evaluating the strength of their team and/or particular players.

For those who are unfamiliar with the scoring chance metric, a player is given a chance any time someone on the ice has a chance to score.  He is given a "chance for" if someone on his team has a chance to score and a "chance against" if the opposing team has a chance to score, just like +/-.  The graph is broken down into three game states, EV situations, PP situations (excluding 5v3) and SH situations (excluding 5v3).  At EV I've also included a "scoring chance percentage" which is the number of "chances for" divided by the the total number of chances for both teams when a given player is on the ice.  The players are all represented by their jersey numbers and initials.  Special thanks are due to Dennis King for starting the counting trend last season and Vic Ferrari for creating an application that makes the game-to-game tallying much easier.  Without further ado, I'll present the data here (my own analysis of the data can be found here):