These team-level statistics have an analogous player version, like 5-on-5 Corsi (for example, Detroit in 2007-08). The league leaders in Corsi since 2007-08 are Tomas Holmstrom (+21.0 per 60 minutes), Pavel Datsyuk (+20.3) (2007-08 Game Chart) and Henrik Zetterberg (+18.2) (2007-08 Game Chart); Alex Ovechkin (+16.9) is #4. (If we adjust individual Corsi relative to a player's teammates, Daniel Sedin is #1 in the league at +16.6.) You can find links to every player's game charts here.

Unlike team-level stats, individual stats are also driven by how a coach chooses to use a player. Here, the two most-important metrics are Offensive Zone Starts and Quality of Competition. It should be obvious that players who get sent out for a lot of offensive zone faceoffs are more likely to direct a shot on goal than surrender one, and Offensive Zone Start percentage captures this. The Vancouver Canucks have taken zone starts to an extreme during the 2011-12 season, with the Sedins and Alex Burrows starting in the offensive end more than 75% of the time, while the Malhotra-Wiese-Lapierre line starts in the defensive zone more than 80% of the time.

Measuring Quality of Competition is less straight-forward: we take the ice time-weighted average of a player's opponents' Corsi number relative to his teammates. The leaders over the last four seasons are a who's who of top defensive players: Nicklas Lidstrom, Willie Mitchell, Dave Bolland, Sammy Pahlsson, Rob Niedermayer, Brent Seabrook, Joel Ward, Jay Bouwmeester, Chris Phillips and Jan Hejda. A primer on the impact of Quality of Competition and Offensive Zone Starts can be found here.