As you've noticed in the past couple weeks, we're getting more and more interested in advanced hockey stats. We're not entirely sure why, since we've only dipped toes into other more widely accepted advanced stats in baseball and basketball. Maybe it's the hipster in us; we only want to like something if we're in on the ground floor.
In any event, Own The Puck put together a great tool and posted it Thursday. Basically, it compares the 390 forwards starting in 2012-13 and running through now (so about 2 1/2 seasons) who have played at least 500 minutes of 5-on-5 action in the NHL, taking a look at two main areas: puck possession and production.
Possession is where we get into the real advanced stats — one called "usage adjusted Corsi percentage." If you want a long explanation of what it is, this is a good primer. The short version, as explained to us by @BobaFenwick on Twitter, is that UAC% "measures how much a player drives possession based on deployment, linemates, and competition." It's kind of like WAR in baseball. You're attempting to strip out all other factors to determine, in a vacuum, how well a player drives puck possession, obviously a valuable asset in hockey.
Production is easier to measure: Own the Puck takes a look at goals, assists, points and scoring chances, all per 60 minutes played.
The particularly nice thing about the new tool is that it creates bar graphs for each metric, showing where each player ranks among the 390 forwards in each category and separating them out in to 1st-through-4th liners in each category in terms of production.
Of particular interest are four Wild forwards: Jason Zucker, Thomas Vanek, Jason Pominville and Zach Parise. Here is what stood out to us in each case (we can't link to the individual bar graphs because it's a drop-down menu, but we'll show Zucker's to illustrate):

*Zucker: His numbers are all over the map. In terms of UAC%, which again is essentially driving puck possession when all other factors are stripped away, Zucker is barely a third-liner and ranks in the bottom third of forwards.
Goals scored? Zucker is elite. As in, fifth-best out of all 390 forwards in terms of 5-on-5 goals scored per 60 minutes. Assists? He's 12th-worst among the forwards. Scoring chances? He's top 30.