Career Stats: Christians vs Coffman

[Dan Wishengrad]

Here's a statistical comparison of the four-year PNCLL careers of two of our top graduating Seniors:

Mike Christians, SFU
2004: 60g, 8a, 4.86ppg
2005: 47g, 18a, 4.33ppg
2006: 58g, 15a, 5.62ppg
2007: 32g, 14a, 4.18ppg

Julian Coffman, UO
2004: 39g, 10a, 2.72ppg
2005: 36g, 8a, 2.93ppg
2006: 54g, 22a, 4.00ppg
2007: 60g, 22a, 4.82ppg

PNCLL Career Stats
Mike Christians: 197g, 55a, 252 total pts
Julian Coffman: 189g, 62a, 251 total pts

Not only did both guys have impressive careers, but their numbers wound up almost identical, with ONE total point separating them.

Comments?

[Timbalaned]

I am just happy Julian realized his junior and senior year that assists count for points too...

[Dan Wishengrad]

Did either ever miss a game due to injury? If so, I don't remember it. Two "iron-men" for their respective teams.

[Dan Wishengrad]

I'll guess that Ricky Clark's 258 goals -- probably 250 or more of which were shot left-handed -- and 50 assists for 338 total pts (courtesy SFU website archives) is the most points ever amasssed by a PNCLL player. But then record-keeping in the '90s was awful sketchy. Rick Kladis racked up 269 total points in his four years at Gonzaga, which might be #2 behind Clark. SFU's top 10 included, after, Clark: Athen Yuen, Jeff Cathrea, Aaron Lochead, Steve Kojima, Peter Morgan and Curtis Hodgson. I remember that CJ Calvert sure scored a lot of points for Whitman during his career, too.

Who else would be on the Top-10 list for total goals and assists during a PNCLL career?

[Dr. Jason Stockton]

Didn't Julian play middie as a freshman? . .and then Christians played most of his senior year at midfield. . . so each essentially had 3 years at attack, and one at midfield. Lots of similarities. . .

[teslax14]

Yes Julian did play middie his freshman year

[Laxfan87]

I'll guess that Ricky Clark's 258 goals -- probably 250 or more of which were shot left-handed -- and 50 assists for 338 total pts (courtesy SFU website archives) is the most points ever amasssed by a PNCLL player. But then record-keeping in the '90s was awful sketchy. Rick Kladis racked up 269 total points in his four years at Gonzaga, which might be #2 behind Clark. SFU's top 10 included, after, Clark: Athen Yuen, Jeff Cathrea, Aaron Lochead, Steve Kojima, Peter Morgan and Curtis Hodgson. I remember that CJ Calvert sure scored a lot of points for Whitman during his career, too.

Who else would be on the Top-10 list for total goals and assists during a PNCLL career?

I think goals are generally pretty accurate, the stat that is debatable is assists, since people have different perceptions as to what constitutes an assist. But looking at some of the archival stats and scores, I don't think SFU in 90's would have any need for inflation of their totals.

I decided to take a look since you mentioned it, Morgan and Hodgson are 6th/7th all time for SFU, but their PPG is 2nd/4th. Morgan clocked in at a 5.47/PPG

[Dr. Jason Stockton]

In the B division, I would guess that Ben Sadler of Whitman is the all-time leading scorer in the PNCLL. . .even though technically he played in the A division for 1 or 2 of those years. . .He amassed 206 points over his career, including 80 points during his senior season.

[Jar Dangerous]

Coffman stats for the PNCLL playoffs and National Championships have not yet been posted. I believe he slightly edges Christians on career points for that reason. Are those points going to be calculated into his career totals.

[Laxfan87]

Coffman stats for the PNCLL playoffs and National Championships have not yet been posted. I believe he slightly edges Christians on career points for that reason. Are those points going to be calculated into his career totals.

does it matter if they are?(if they aren't already) The comparison already contains a PPG, that pretty much takes into account the games they've played. The point of the thread is that 2 fellow Senior Graduates had great paralleling careers, as well as a look into the PNCLL Stat history.

[WoNdErBoY88]

... As far as the B division goes look out for Tchuk

[Hi-Line Lax]

and Townsend Hall

[Steno]

Whitehead looks like he's on his way to stardom.

[Dr. Jason Stockton]

Whitehead looks like he's on his way to stardom.

Jamison is a scoring machine. . .but his eligibility is gone, so he won't touch some of these 4-year starters. . .like Sadler, Hall and Tkachuk. If there was a points per season contest, he'd certainly be towards the top of that list.

[litlax5]

We definitely missed Jamison for the last 5 games of this year as well. He might have hit 100 this year alone. There are some very talented scorers in this league and im sure there are more to come.