Useless Stats: March 17, 2010 Edition
Written by Ryan Classic   
Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16:54

 

Hello. The following is a small collection of useless, yet mildly interesting statistics from the around the NHL and the rest of the hockey world.

  • The Washington Capitals are far and away the team with the highest GF-GA differential at a whopping +79. The next closest is Chicago at +55, 24 below the Capitals. Even scarier is Washington's AHL affiliate, the Hershey Bears. Hershey is a frightening +118, 44 above second-place Hamilton's +74.
  • The three worst GF-GA in the NHL belong to Edmonton (-69), Toronto (-48), and Columbus (-43). The bottom three in the AHL are Springfield (-75), Toronto (-61), and Syracuse (-35). Those are, in order, the AHL affiliates for Edmonton, Toronto, and Columbus. Yikes.
  • Going into Tuesday night's action, Islanders rookie John Tavares had managed only 8 points since January 1, 2010. The list of rookies with more points in the new year than Tavares included Matt Duchene, Tyler Myers, Niclas Bergfors, Tyler Bozak, Peter Regin, and even Michael Del Zotto. Even Daniel Carcillo had more points. Okay, Carcillo isn't a rookie, but that's not the point: he's Daniel Carcillo. Naturally, before this could be put to post, Tavares went ahead and collected 5 points in Vancouver against Roberto Luongo and an empty net. You can probably consider that slump broken now.
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  • Speaking of rookies, the Colorado Avalanche have four of them in the top 20 rookie scorers: Matt Duchene (1st), T.J. Galiardi (5th), Ryan O'Reilly (11th), and Brandon Yip (20th).
  • Montreal has dressed the most rookie skaters this season, a total of 11. while Calgary has dressed the least. Calgary has only had one rookie play all season. That would be Mikael Backlund, who has played a grand total of 11 games for the Flames. This actually makes perfect sense: what do you need rookies for when you keep filling roster spots by acquiring Toronto Maple Leafs.
  • Finally, this has nothing to do with statistics, but check out this photo of former Ottawa Senator and Vancouver Canuck Magnus Arvedson. Arvedson is currently a coach for Bofors IK of the second-tier Swedish league.  We can only dream of a day when NHL coaches wear such awesome sweaters behind the bench. On this day of comfortable wool sweaters and mass consumption of alcoholic beverages, we salute you Magnus Arvedson, fashion pioneer!

Coaching attire of the future: today!

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