Fun stat of the day

Elvis, the Latvian rookie has now notched five shutouts over his last eight games, going undefeated in that stretch with a sparkling .967 save percentage and a 1.00 goals-against average.

 

The goals have been lonesome each night.

 

Jamie Benn just had his 6th career hat trick. David Pastrnak just had his 4th hat trick of the season.

 

Pastrnak 41

Matthews 40

OV 40

 

Is Irbe his goalie coach?

 

Jimmy Howard is 2-22-2 this season and hasn't won a start since Oct.29.

Wings fans teeing off on him.

 

Look who's back in the league, Nathan Gerbe (CBJ). At 5"4, he's by far the shortest player in the league.
He had a tussle last night with Claude Giroux (who stands at 5"11) and put him down.

Looks like the shortest player ever to win a fight.

 

Ok, I thought I had something wrong here, it was Sanheim he fought, not Giroux.

So Sanheim is 6'3, that's the largest size difference in an nhl fight all-time, almost a foot taller.

 

Here's the John Carlson watch on his way to reaching the century mark as a D-man.

83 pts in 65 games projected over a full 82 game season is 104 pts.

 

Kinda been lost in the shuffle this year. He has a case to be a Hart finalist.

 

Sure, he's flying under the radar.

The last defenseman to register over 100 pte in a season was Brian Leetch 28 years ago.

Ironically another US born player.

 

Pens are 2-8 in their last ten games with no OT results.

 

Amazing how similar the stats of Jack Hughes and Kaapo Kakko.

1st and 2nd overall in the 2019 entry draft.

Both with 21 pts.
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Kaapo 8 goals/ 13 assists -27

Huges 7 goals/ 14 assists -26

 

Jaromir Jagr has had a future/past teammate win the Cup every season since 1980 with the exception of 1986. future teammate Joey Mullen lost in the Final that year.

2020: Tyler Seguin vs. Johnny Boychuk/Braydon Coburn
2019: Brayden Schenn
2018: Alex Chiasson
2017: Matt Cullen
2016: Matt Cullen
2015: Kris Versteeg
2014: Willie Mitchell
2013: Dan Carcillo
2012: Willie Mitchell
2011: Mark Recchi
2010: Kris Versteeg
2009: Petr Sykora
2008: Andreas Lilja
2007: Shawn Thornton
2006: Mark Recchi
2005: N/A
2004: Pavel Kubina
2003: Jay Pandolfo
2002: Brendan Shanahan
2001: Chris Drury
2000: Scott Gomez
1999: Benoit Hogue
1998: Doug Brown
1997: Doug Brown
1996: Scott Young
1995: Tom Chorske
1994: Mark Messier
1993: JJ Daigneault
1992: Jagr
1991: Jagr
1990: Mark Messier
1989: Jiri Hrdina
1988: Mark Messier
1987: Mark Messier
1986: None (His teammate Joe Mullen was on the losing Calgary Flames)
1985: Mark Messier
1984: Mark Messier
1983: Bryan Trottier
1982: Bryan Trottier
1981: Bryan Trottier
1980: Bryan Trottier

 

Aaron Ekblad scored a GWG TWO TIMES in OT, no less, in ONE game!

Well, the first OT GWG was waived off after review (offsides).

Meanwhile, the Buffalo Sabres have had ZERO GWG’s of ANY sort in some time.

 

Here’s a nice gem thanks to the BuffaloHockeyBeat.com:

“Goalie Linus Ullmark’s ... .868 career shootout save percentage ranks first all-time among goalies who have participated in at least 10 shootouts.”

That’s an amazing stat: a positive statistic and a Buffalo Sabre in one sentence!