Monday, July 1, 2013

2013 NHL Individual Statistical Leaders

With only five NHL trophies awarded for statistical achievement alone (Art Ross, Rocket Richard, Plus-Minus, Jennings, Crozier), plenty of regular season accomplishments escape recognition at the NHL Awards.  The individual statistical leaders for the 2013 NHL regular season are shown below.

--------------------SKATERS
Statistic       Leader
Points St. Louis (60)
Points/Game Crosby (1.56)
Points - Even Strength E. Staal (43)
Points - Powerplay Ovechkin, Ribeiro (27)
Points - Shorthanded Stepan, Stempniak, Kovalchuk (4)
Goals Ovechkin (32)
Goals/Game Ovechkin (.67)
Goals - Even Strength Stamkos, Toews, Tavares, Tlusty (19)
Goals - Powerplay Ovechkin (16)
Goals - Shorthanded Kovalchuk (4)
Goals - Game Winning Carter (8)
Goals - Empty Net Wheeler, Tlusty (4)
Assists St. Louis (43)
Assists/Game Crosby (1.14)
Shots Ovechkin (220)
Shots Missed Ovechkin (98)
Plus/Minus Dupuis (31)
Penalty - Minutes Orr (155)
Penalty - Minor Burrows, Neil (27)
Penalty - Major Crombeen (14)
Penalty - Game Misconduct   Clowe, Zolnierczyk (2)
Time On Ice (TOI)          Suter (1,309:25)
TOI/Game Suter (27:16)
TOI/Shift Letang, Green (1:00)
Shifts Doughty (1,544)
Shifts/Game Pietrangelo (32.4)
Faceoff % Bergeron (62.1)
Giveaways Phaneuf (53)
Takeaways Datsyuk, Toews (56)
Blocked Shots Girardi (125)
Hits Martin (234)

--------------------GOALIES
Statistic       Leader
Wins Lundqvist, Niemi, Backstrom (24)
Losses Varlamov (21)
Shots Faced Miller (1,270)
Saves Miller (1,162)
Goals Against Pavelec (119
Goals Against Average           Anderson (1.69)
Save Percentage Anderson (.941)
Shutouts Howard, Rask, Schneider, Rinne, Smith (5)
Time On Ice Niemi (2,580:46)

Perhaps one day the NHL will expand their annual awards selection to recognize more leaders of these statistical categories. Until then, we'll leave it up to the voters to determine who's ripe for recognition.

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