Watching the Zebras
It’s monthly season update time again! With February in the books, there’s just one more full month of games left in the season, so the next update will be the full season numbers, with each team and referee broken out into individual posts like last year.
This update includes all games played through February 29th, 2024. First, the conference games only table:
And the table for all games:
And finally, the monthly video of all majors and misconducts called. The incident that prompted the misconduct call on Filip Forsmark (Merrimack) against UVM on 2/17 was not included in the broadcast.
It’s time for the monthly update on the 2023-24 season, this time for January. The month started off with a few non-conference games, but the conference schedule took over as the month went on. This includes all games played through January 30, 2024.
First up, the stats for all games:
And for in-conference games only:
And finally, the monthly video of all the majors and misconducts during the month. The Connecticut Ice tournament was not broadcast on ESPN+, so Nick Capone’s (UConn) elbowing major against Sacred Heart was not available, and Nick Caffarelli’s (UNH) unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against UVM was not included in the broadcast.
Here’s the monthly year-to-date statistics for December of the 2023-24 season. Due to the holiday break, there weren’t many games played during the month, but several of them had quite a few penalties.
First, the stats for all games:
And the stats for in-conference games only:
And finally, the video of all the major and misconduct penalties called during December by the Hockey East referees. Apologies for not having the video of the Ralf Bergmanis Hitting From Behind penalty against Union; the captured file was unreadable and the game expired off of ESPN+ before we realized it wasn’t usable.
Here’s the monthly year-to-date update for November of the 2023-24 season. First the statistics for all games:
And for only conference games:
And the monthly video of majors and misconducts – apologies for the two incidents without footage, the UND-BU file corrupted and the game was off ESPN+ before we were aware, and the incident that caused the QU bench Misconduct was not included in the broadcast.
The season-to-date statistics for Hockey East men’s referees. This includes all games played through October 28, 2023.
There were only nine conference games played during the month, so this post does not include the conference games only table, but next month’s update will.
A monthly video compilation of all the major and misconduct penalties called by men’s Hockey East referees.
Average Total is the average total number of penalties in a team’s games. Average Taken is the average number of penalties called against a team, and Average Drawn is the average number of penalties called against a team’s opponent.
Ratio is the ratio of penalties taken to penalties drawn. A value greater than one means more penalties are called against that team than their opponents, a value less than one means more penalties are called against the team’s opponents.
| Boston College | Massachusetts | Northeastern |
| Boston University | Massachusetts-Lowell | Providence |
| Connecticut | Merrimack | Vermont |
| Maine | New Hampshire |
The table is broken into two sections, one for in-conference games only, the other for all games (both in-conference and out-of-conference games).
Record is the record for this team in games officiated by the referee in the first column.
Avg. Taken is the average number of penalties called against this team in games officiated by the referee in the first column.
Avg. Drawn is the average number of penalties called against this team’s opponents in games officiated by the referee in the first column.
Games is the number of games the referee officiated.
Average Called is the average number of combined penalties in games the referee officiated.
Visitor More is the percentage of games where the visiting team was called for more penalties than the home team. An equal number of penalties called on both teams is not included.
Home Record is the record of home teams in games the referee officiated.
Major Penalties Called is the total number of major penalties called in games the referee officiated.
The team section is broken into two sections, one for in-conference games only, the other for all games (both in-conference and out-of-conference games).
Record is the record for a team in games officiated by this referee.
Avg. Taken is the average number of penalties called against this team in games officiated by this referee.
Avg. Drawn is the average number of penalties called against this team’s opponents in games officiated by this referee.
If this referee has not officiated any games involving a team, the record will be shown as 0-0-0, and the other columns as N/A.