This Week In NHL Numbers: Potent Preds, punchless energy performs and nice goalies

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The Preds are scoring, the Sens usually are not, and the Sabres are all of a sudden stingy. Listed below are 10 standout NHL stats that caught our consideration this week.Matt Duchene|Frederick Breedon/Getty ImagesThe Nashville Predators are scoring like by no means earlier than, however the puck’s getting into at each ends. The Ottawa Senators’ energy play is unquestionably not dwelling as much as its title. And a Buffalo Sabres goalie simply did one thing that Dominik Hasek by no means completed.
Listed below are 10 standout NHL stats that caught our consideration this week:
0Nearly three weeks into the NHL common season, that’s the variety of losses in regulation time for Colorado. At 6-Zero-1 the Avalanche aren’t fairly good  – they misplaced Three-2 in extra time to Pittsburgh on Wednesday – however they’re the final remaining crew with out a 60-minute loss. Honorable mentions for Edmonton (7-1-Zero) and Buffalo (6-1-1), because the Oilers attempt to make the playoffs for simply the second time in 14 seasons, and the Sabres look to snap an eight-year playoff drought.
Zero.0Ottawa’s subsequent power-play objective can be its first of the season. The Senators are Zero-for-21 on the PP (Zero.Zero p.c), together with Zero-for-14 at house, they usually’re the one crew within the league with out at the least one objective on the person benefit. In truth, with one shorthanded objective, the Sens rating extra usually when the opposite crew has an influence play.
3Speaking of shorthanded objectives, Vegas leads the league with three this season, courtesy of Reilly Smith, Tomas Nosek and Brayden McNabb. Even higher, the Golden Knights are 29-for-31 on the penalty kill, that means they’re plus-1 on the season when their opponent has had a person benefit.
3Philadelphia’s Claude Giroux remains to be in search of his first objective of the season, however he’s come fairly shut a number of occasions. No person has struck iron greater than Giroux, who has three goalposts in 5 video games. Winnipeg’s Blake Wheeler (three goalposts, three objectives), Vegas’ Max Pacioretty (three goalposts, two objectives) and Washington defenseman Dmitry Orlov (two goalposts and one crossbar, one objective) have additionally hit iron thrice, however at the least they’ve additionally hit the scoresheet as soon as or thrice as properly.
Four.29Don’t look now, however the ever-so-defensive Nashville Predators are main the league in offense, averaging Four.29 objectives per sport. Low season UFA signee Matt Duchene is pacing the Preds with 9 factors, whereas sniper Filip Forsberg ranks amongst NHL leaders with 5 objectives. Ten Predators gamers have at the least 5 factors by way of seven video games, and 14 gamers have scored at the least as soon as. Alternatively, Nashville is giving up 4 objectives a sport, so issues are form of topsy-turvy in Tennessee proper now.
5There have been three four-goal performances already this season – by Detroit’s Anthony Mantha, Edmonton’s James Neal and Boston’s David Pastrnak – however just one participant has posted a five-point sport to date in 2019-20. Who? Extra like, who else? Oilers captain Connor McDavid had a highlight-reel objective and a career-high 4 assists in a 6-Three victory over Philadelphia on Wednesday.
47The variety of saves by Sabres goalie Carter Hutton in Buffalo’s Three-Zero blanking of Los Angeles on Thursday. It was Hutton’s second shutout in a row — after blanking Dallas Four-Zero on Monday – and the 47 stops in a shutout efficiency established a franchise document. The 33-year-old netminder didn’t put up a single shutout in 50 video games with the Sabres final season.
95.0The Canucks are off to a strong begin (Four-2-Zero) and a key purpose is their penalty killing. Vancouver is 19-for-20 on the PK (95.Zero p.c), with St. Louis (16-for-17, 94.1 p.c) the one different crew to give up only one PP objective thus far.
127The variety of NHL video games it took Montreal defenseman Victor Mete to attain his first big-league objective. It was a very long time coming however maybe definitely worth the wait, as Mete’s objective stood up because the game-winner within the Canadiens’ Four-Zero shutout of Minnesota on Thursday. Lower than 5 minutes after Mete scored, Habs rookie Nick Suzuki additionally notched his first profession NHL objective, doing it in 120 fewer video games.
258That’s the variety of photographs confronted by Vegas goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, essentially the most within the league. Heading into Friday night time’s motion, the one different netminder to face 200-plus photographs was Calgary’s David Rittich (221). The explanation Fleury is so busy? That’s how the Golden Knights need it. Vegas backup Malcolm Subban has seen a grand complete of 20 minutes of motion thus far, getting yanked after the primary interval towards Arizona on Oct. 10 after giving up two objectives on 14 photographs. Fleury is ok with the workload thus far, sporting a 5-2-Zero document and .926 save proportion.
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Tags: lists, nhlConnect: Concerning the AuthorSam McCaigCopy editor Sam McCaig rejoined The Hockey Information in 2017 after beforehand working at THN from 1999 to 2010. His profession excessive for objectives in a season is one.