How do you read a player’s penalty minutes?

Not all penalties are equal. A hook 200 feet from the net late in a close game is a costly penalty; interference while killing a 2-on-1 can be an acceptable sacrifice. Tracking reveals patterns: always the same infraction, always the same situation, always in the third period.

For young players the trend is everything: going from 12 minutes a month to 4 means learning to play hard WITHOUT self-punishing, one of the most important developments there is. RinkLog logs each penalty with its length and folds it into season averages.