Petr Sykora finished the season with more goals (21) than did Jaromir Jagr (19). Even if you take into account the games Jagr missed due to injury, I still doubt anyone would have predicted that.
Also, Clarkson finishes the season with 30 goals, which is extremely hard to believe even though I watched every one of them...
James Neal set a new career high in Goals (40), Assists (41) and Points (81)
Pascal Dupuis set a new career high in Goals (25), Assists (34) and Points (59), as well as having the league's longest point streak at 17 games
Chris Kunitz set a new career high in Goals (26) and Points (61)
Jordan Staal set a new career high in Assists (25) and Points (50)
Evgeni Malkin set a new career high in Goals (50)
Kris Letang set a new career high in Goals (10)
Matt Cooke set a new career high in Goals (19)
Marc-Andre Fleury set a new career high in save percentage and wins
WOW!
That's a sign that everything's clicking and everything's going right. But it also means that some people are overperforming and will likely have less points next season.
Pascal Dupuis was 11th in the league in even strength points. Link to top 30 below. Check out the players he is ahead of. Hossa, Kane, Parise, Kovalchuk, Giroux, H. Sedin,
IDK if this is still true but for the better part of the season, the Oilers had a winning record against playoff teams. They also were like 5-0 at one point against teams that were first in the league. Chicago, Washington, and Vancouver were 3 teams we beat while they were perched at 1st
41 year old Teemu Selänne was the best scorer in Anaheim beating Corey Perry by 6 points.
Selänne played every game this year. Selänne also was again the best Finnish scorer this year, beating Filppula with 1 point.
Crosby had 29 assists in 22 games, Ovechkin had 27 assists in 78 games.
Yeah, I know, Anaheim/Finnish players/Ovechkin sucked this year but still pretty impressive stats for Teemu and Sid.
They're tied. Both have 66 points.
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Yeah, I know, Anaheim/Finnish players/Ovechkin sucked this year but still pretty impressive stats for Teemu and Sid.
Over last 4 years, only Mikko Koivu has scored over 66 points, twice (not including Selanne). 67 in 08-09 and 71 in 09-10.
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Chicago did not record a single shutout this season.
There are 5 Devils in the top-10 for SH points, including 3 in the top-5.
That's bad, and that's awesome, respectively.
And with Bowman resigning Emery, he doesn't look like wanting to fix that. Or maybe this was just a sophomore slump for Crawford.
Scott Gomez has 2 goals and 11 points in 38 games.
He has a 7.3 M cap hit which it 2.3 M higher than the second highest paid forward for the Canadiens (Plekanec) who has 17 goals and 52 points in 81 games.
