Stanley Cup Playoffs: 58 fun stats from Round 2

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The second round of Stanley Cup Playoffs brought us some fresh powers in the West, two Game 7 showdowns, and a superstar rematch we’ve only been waiting seven years to enjoy. We recount hockey’s Elite Eight through 58 statistics.

Break out your abacus.

0 combined Stanley Cups won by Western Conference finalists St. Louis and San Jose

49-0-1 Record of the Ontario Blues, the star-studded team Steven Stamkos and John Tavares both played for as teens. As for that one shootout loss? “My dad was coaching that team, and he picked Johnny over me in the shootout,” Stamkos said. “He blew it. Yeah, Johnny blew it.”

4 multi-point games for Tavares in these playoffs

0 points for Tavares in the Islanders’ last four games of the post-season, all loses

28 years since an NHL team reached the conference finals without its top goal-scorer, which Tampa Bay did with Steven Stamkos sidelined. The last team to do so was Lightning GM Steve Yzerman’s 1988 Red Wings

4 tweets sent by the Anaheim Ducks congratulating Bruce Boudreau, the coach they fired, for landing a new job with Minnesota

3 years since an NHLer capped off a post-season hat trick with an overtime winner, a streak broken by T.J. “Wraparound” Oshie in Game 1:

9 seasons spent in Washington by Pittsburgh’s Eric Fehr, who scored the Game 2 winner against his old team

5 San Jose Sharks sweaters saved from fire by Fort McMurray teenager Billy Foley:

1 heritage Sharks jersey sent to Billy by Sharkie, San Jose’s mascot

23 career playoff goals by Nashville’s Mike Fisher, none more impressive than his triple-overtime winner in Game 4, which is still not as impressive as marrying Carrie Underwood

111:12 length of Game 4, the longest game ever played by the Nashville Predators

49:42 ice time for Nashville’s Roman Josi, tops among all skaters in the marathon

3 Tylenol type, recommended, for Islanders head coach Jack Capuano, who had “a little bit of a headache” after taking this puck right in the schnoz during Game 1:

4/5 Islanders’ playoff wins in which they needed to come from behind

9 lives of Joe Pawvelski

3 game-winning playoff goals by Blues captain (and pending free agent) (and birthday boy) David Backes:

1K Twitter followers for overnight sensation Tony X. on April 24

93.6K Twitter followers for Tony X. on May 3, when he attended his first hockey game

38.4 seconds remaining when Tampa’s Nikita Kucherov tied Game 3, which the Lightning would win in overtime:

$2,403.67 price paid by Washington’s Tom Wilson for this nasty knee on Conor Sheary:

3 games Washington’s Brooks Orpik was suspended for this Macho Man–calibre elbow on Olli Maatta:

3 games Marcus Johansson believes Kris Letang should’ve been suspended for this high, late hit (he served one game):

2 puckered lips, belonging to St. Louis’s Ryan Reaves and directed at the Dallas bench:

0.9 playoff points per game by Tampa’s Jonathan Drouin, who got on the score sheet in Game 3, even after getting demo’d by Thomas Hickey:

47 saves made by Pittsburgh rookie Matt Murray in Game 3’s win, leading credence to the idea that he (and not Marc-Andre Fleury) might be protected in the expansion draft

107.5 mph, clocked speed of Shea Weber’s game-winning slap shot in Game 3:

6 consecutive playoff overtime games lost by Pittsburgh (tied for an all-time high) until Patric Hornqvist scored the Game 4 winner

5 of 6 Penguins-Capitals games decided by one goal

77 points by Washington’s Evgeny Kuznetsov in the regular season, a team high

2 points by Kuznetsov in the entire playoffs, not at all a team high

$269.99 average retail price of a Ribcor Reckoner, which had to reckon with a ticked-off Sidney Crosby after he was slashed on the hand by Alex Ovechkin in Game 4:

.769 Lightning’s all-time winning percentage in playoff overtime games on the road (10-3), the best in NHL history

4 series-clinching shutouts by Ben Bishop, tied for second all-time with Martin Brodeur and Jacques Plante. Chris Osgood leads them all with five

75-25 shot attempts, in favour of St. Louis, in the Blues’ 3-2 loss to Dallas in Game 6

36 age, exact, of unlikely Dallas hero Vern Fiddler, the undrafted forward who scored a birthday goal in front of Mom and Dad in Game 6:

1.91 million Twitter followers of Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki, who was cheering on the city’s hockey club:

6 regular-season goals for Nashville’s Colin Wilson this year

5 playoff goals this year for Wilson, who set a Predators post-season record with his seven-game point streak

75 percentage of people who said the Capitals would lose Game 5, according to Kuznetsov:

22 years (and counting) since an Eastern Conference–based Presidents’ Trophy winner claimed the Stanley Cup

47 consecutive games won by Pittsburgh in which it led after two periods

33 points in 33 career playoff games for Phil Kessel

$1.2 million annual salary of Kessel retained by the Maple Leafs through 2022

2:02 game time in which the Penguins committed three straight puck-over-glass penalties in the third period of Game 6

8-1 Pittsburgh’s all-time playoff record in series versus Washington

0 teams that drafted Jay Beagle, who (temporarily) saved the Capitals season by doing this:

8 consecutive series played by Blues forward Troy Brouwer that lasted till Game 7, an NHL record

0-4 Dallas coach Lindy Ruff’s record in Game 7s

3 goals allowed by each Stars netminder, Kari Lehtonen and Antti Niemi, in Game 7’s 6-1 blowout on home ice

.900 save percentage not achieved by either Stars goalie in the playoffs

20, 110 age, in years and days, of Blues rookie Robby Fabbri, the youngest player to ever score three points in a Game 7

11 points hung on Nashville by San Jose’s Logan Couture, who leads all playoff scorers with 17 points

5 goals allowed by Nashville’s Pekka Rinne in Game 7, leading to this:

9 overtime games in Round 2, the most since the NHL introduced the 16-team playoff format

7 consecutive seasons a California-based team has reached the Western Conference final

109.11 seconds Nyquist needed to win the Kentucky Derby after sipping from the Stanley Cup

5,555 career receiving yards for Rob Gronkowski, who’s rooting for the Sharks because they’re scary:

(Numbers pilfered with love from SN Stats, Elias, Twitter, NHL.com, and sometimes just counting things old school.)

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