Drawing penalties is a skill, and so is staying out of the box: both carry over strongly from one season to the next. This is every skater since 2010-11: penalties drawn and taken, per 60 minutes, and what the difference is worth in goals.
Counts are minor and major penalties from the play-by-play, regular season only. Fighting majors, misconducts and bench minors are left out: a fight gives each fighter one penalty taken and one drawn, which cancels but would swamp the rates of players who fight. Drawn means the other team was penalised for a foul on this player.
Net goals prices the difference at each season’s measured value of a penalty (0.162 to 0.198 goals, the same price as the Penalties column on Players). It is measured against a league-average skater with the same ice time: the league as a whole nets slightly negative, because bench minors and penalties with no recorded drawer count as taken but never as drawn. Goals/82 is net goals per 82 games played.
Regressed rates pull small samples toward the league mean. Penalty rates carry over strongly from one season to the next (r = 0.69 for drawn per 60, 0.68 for taken, 0.58 for the difference; 7,060 season pairs of 500+ minutes). That implies a prior worth about 7.6 hours of ice time, so a full season mostly speaks for itself and a 20-game call-up does not. The table is sorted by regressed net per 60 against the league.
At the team level, penalty environments are about discipline, not officiating: see the research index.
One dot per skater with 1,000+ minutes in the current view, regressed rates. Above the diagonal, a player draws more penalties than they take. Search a name to highlight a player.