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Now that the NHL Season has reached the half-way point, it's time to look in on the silliness that is the Grit Chart, courtesy of Sportsnet. As I said when I first looked at their "metric":
The screencap above, courtesy of @bookofloob, shows the brand-spankin'-new-for-2013 grit metric (What is Grit?) used by Sportsnet to explain which NHL teams are the grittiest. Grit is comprised of four measurements (stats!): Penalty Minutes, Fights, Hits, and Blocked Shots*. I combined the four into a single metric, weighted equally, and ranked the NHL by Sportsnet's grit metric below:
| Team | Points/G | What is Grit? Rank |
| Toronto Maple Leafs | 1.10 | 1 |
| Philadelphia Flyers | 1.10 | 2 |
| Columbus Blue Jackets | 0.95 | 3 |
| Washington Capitals | 1.13 | 4 |
| Colorado Avalanche | 1.33 | 5 |
| Montréal Canadiens | 1.22 | 5 |
| Buffalo Sabres | 0.65 | 7 |
| St. Louis Blues | 1.51 | 8 |
| Boston Bruins | 1.35 | 9 |
| Ottawa Senators | 0.98 | 10 |
| New York Islanders | 0.80 | 11 |
| Winnipeg Jets | 1.02 | 11 |
| Pittsburgh Penguins | 1.40 | 13 |
| Los Angeles Kings | 1.32 | 13 |
| Edmonton Oilers | 0.74 | 15 |
| Calgary Flames | 0.85 | 16 |
| Nashville Predators | 1.00 | 17 |
| Vancouver Canucks | 1.29 | 18 |
| Dallas Stars | 1.21 | 19 |
| New York Rangers | 1.02 | 20 |
| Phoenix Coyotes | 1.26 | 21 |
| Anaheim Ducks | 1.50 | 22 |
| Florida Panthers | 0.88 | 23 |
| San Jose Sharks | 1.40 | 24 |
| Tampa Bay Lightning | 1.28 | 24 |
| Carolina Hurricanes | 0.98 | 26 |
| Minnesota Wild | 1.07 | 27 |
| Detroit Red Wings | 1.10 | 28 |
| Chicago Blackhawks | 1.50 | 29 |
| New Jersey Devils | 1.02 | 30 |
Except for the Blues, the best teams in the league 18th or worse in the grit standings.
The R^2 value of grit score to points is .13, low enough to be meaningless. The R^2 value of population to points is .15, meaning metropolitan population correlates to winning more closely than grit as defined by Sportsnet.