If you feel like the games in the NHL this year have been especially high-scoring this year, well, that’s because they have been! Teams are averaging 3.04 goals per game this season, which would be the highest mark since 2005-06. That has been a popular bit of trivia at this year’s general managers meeting, too, as evidence of a healthy game.

With a high-scoring game has also come all kinds of statistical excellence for goal-scorers and point-getters. For the first time in 25 seasons, at least 16 players have recorded point streaks of 11 or more games — and counting!

 

 

It’s been a prolific season for these NHLers🔥

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The full list of these players: (deep breath) Patrick Kane, Mike Hoffman, Mikko Rantanen, Alex Ovechkin, Dylan Larkin, David Perron, Nikita Kucherov, Vladimir Tarasenko, Cam Atkinson, Sebastian Aho, Evgenii Dadonov, Johnny Gaudreau, Blake Wheeler, Sam Reinhart and, as of tonight, Leon Draisaitl.

As a programming note, Erik Karlsson also recorded a point in 14 straight appearances, but the NHL regards it as two separate streaks of 8 and 6 games because of the two-game suspension he served during that stretch.

So, if it feels like you’ve been seeing more of these statistical quirks, and more pucks finding twine in general, then now you know it to be true! It’s been a good year if you like a high-scoring game, and with any luck, the good times will continue.​