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.