Surprising Facts

when you take the time to look at some stats on nhl.com, you can find a lot of surprising facts.

If you are a big Don Cherry fan, you probably think that quebequers can’t play physical and you may also think you need to be a big guys to throw hits around and that european players don’t play with pations and heart.

Even if Chara is first in hits colomn with 157, when you look carefully, you can see three quebequers rated high on that same colomn:

H W hits

6. Steve Begin 6’0 185 122

7. Stephane Robidas 5’11 190 120

12.Francis Bouillon 5’8 196 114

other surprising:

13. Dion Phaneuf 6’2 213 114

23. Alex Ovechkin 6’2 216 99

41. Todd Bertuzzi 6’3 245 80

Blocked Shot by forward:

1. Lapperiere 64

14. P.Bergeron 38

16. Begin 37

28. Yelle 34

Givaway:

1. Kovalchuk 86

3. Jagr 74

4. Pronger 73

6. Jovocop 59

takaways:

2.Bouillon 55

4. Madden 49

Markov 49

Modano 49

9. Lapperiere 46

points per game:

GP G A P PPG

1. Patrick Elias 10 4 12 16 1.60

4. Keith Tkachuk 10 8 7 15 1.50

Shootout goal:

Chances Goal %

1. Jussi Jokinen 6 6 100

Shooting % :

% G

1.Petr Prucha 26.7 24

9.Lapperiere 20.5 15

19.Tucker 18.4 18

Rod Brind’amour is the most used forward with 24:28 avg and he has taken 43% of his team faceoffs

Manny Fernandez has the best GAA in the league (2.02) just in front of hasek (2.03) and Lundqvist (2.13)

Sv% : Hasek (.929) Fernandez (.928) Lundqvist(.927)

Roberto Luogo has played 48 of his teams’ 51 games,.That means he get a break every 16 games, he faced 1580 shots, avg 32 per games, kolzig is facing avg 34/games

Marty Turco is perfect in Shootouts this years, 9 saves on 9 shot, Kolzig has faced 36 shootouts, stopping 25, Brodeur concede 3 goals on 23 chances.

To conclude, I just wanna remember you that Ovechkin is 2 years (1 years 10 months and 10 days) older then Crosby so before you all says that ovechkin will be greatest then Sid wait 2 years and watch Crosby beats Ovechkin 20 years old season.