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In honor of the Blackhawks final game before the NHL’s 3-week Olympic break tonight, I thought I’d give y’all a nice little Headslappin’, Holy Shit HOCKEY Statistic here to chew on for a bit…
Okay, so I was going through all the hockey scores from the last handful of days and saw that a former Blackhawk fan favorite, Brandon Hagel, set a record on Sunday for the quickest goal ever scored in an NHL outdoor game when he put one home against the Bruins a mere 11 seconds into the contest (it was actually 10 seconds when you watch the replay, imo… but whatever).
The goal gave him 26 on the season, a total that seemed pretty hefty for being less than 2/3 of the way through the schedule, so I thought I’d take a quick look to see how close he was to his career high…
In doing so, I stumbled across something that looked super-duper odd… odd enough that I felt the need to do some more research on it and…..HOLY FREAKIN SHIT!!!
I can’t tell you how glad I am that I looked this shit up because dudes… I am NOT kidding around when I say that I was absolutely fucking FLOORED by what I eventually uncovered. . .
So as it turns out, Hagel set his career high just last season when he put up a very respectable 35 goals to go along with 55 assists, combining for a total of 90 points in 82 games.
Nothing to write home about in general, I suppose… but still pretty fucking awesome for a 27-year old former 6th-round draft pick, if you ask me…
But wait… Ummmmm…… Hold on a second here… Wait… that can’t be right. . .
…and that’s when I saw it. . . . . . . .
Upon closer examination, yes, Hagel DID score 35 goals last season… but NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM CAME ON THE POWER PLAY!!
NOT ONE!!!
Hmmmm… Is it possible he wasn’t slotted on either of the Lightning’s top power play units? Nope, he was. He actually tallied 11 assists on the power play, so it’s not like he wasn’t out there…
Quick Sidenote: Not ALL of those 35 lamp-lighters came during 5-on-5 play, as three of them happened to be shorthanded goals, but still……….
ZERO on the POWER PLAY?!?!?! WTF!!?!
After scratching my head for a while, the only explanation I could come up with was that I must be overreacting.
I mean, does this sort of thing actually happen all the time?
I suppose there COULD be a bunch of players who score most, if not ALL of their goals during 5-on-5 play and I just never realized it…. but damn… 35 is a pretty big number to put up in a season.
Shit, Kaner only hit that mark twice in his career, and 35 is actually Toews’ career high!
I don’t get it. Something is DEFINITELY out of whack here and I gotta know what it is…
Let’s find out!
Okay, now in order to figure out what the heck is going on here, the first thing I’ll need to do is set my research parameters…
I figure the most efficient way to solve this is to look at every single player who scored 20 or more goals last season, then mark down how many of them did so without having a single power play goal.
From there, l can work my way backwards through the years doing the same thing, marking down each time a player scored 20 or more goals on the season without a single one coming on the power play.
And off we go!!
So I pulled up a list of the top goal-scorers last year and began making my way through them top to bottom. . .
Draisaitl - 52 goals, 16 on the power play
Nylander - 45 goals, 12 on the power play
Ovechkin - 44 goals, 14 on the power play
.
.
.
17 players scored more goals than Hagel and 16 of them had at least 7 power play goals (the 17th guy had just 3).
So I continued working my way down the list until Yep, okay, there’s another player without a power play goal…
Aliaksei Protas for the Capitals. 30 goals, 0 on the power play.
After going through everyone with 20 or more goals last season — 147 players in all — I found that only 6 of them didn’t tally a single power play goal:
Brandon Hagel (TB) - 35
Aliaksei Protas (WAS) - 30
Brett Howden (VGK) - 23
Ryan McLeod (BUF) - 20
Owen Tippett (PHI) - 20
Ilya Mikheyev (CHI) - 20
Okay, so maybe this sort of thing DOES happen here and there … but still, that was only 6 out of 147, which in my mind, proves absolutely nothing.
So I press on…
After going through the same process for the next season back (2023-24), my final numbers showed there were 139 players with 20+ goals… and only TWO of them had zero on the power play. Ehlers (WPG) at 25 goals and Hoglander (VAN) at 24.
The 2022-23 season had 129 players with 20+ goals… and ALL OF THEM had at least one goal on the power play.
Year after year after year, I found there to be fewer and fewer examples of 20+ goal-scorers without a power play goal. In fact, from the 2021-22 season on down through the beginning of the millennium (2000-01), there were only 19 such cases, with just FOUR of them coming on 25+ goal seasons (none more than 28).
Well shit, now I HAVE to keep going. I think I might have actually stumbled upon some rare, freaky-ass NHL record here. . .
Jesus, it only happened 9 times throughout the entire 90’s. Once with 29 goals, the rest with 23 or fewer.
29 times in the 80’s. One time it was done with 31 goals (Doug Small (WPG) during the 1984-85 season), one time with 26, one with 25, and the remaining 26 times came with 24 goals or fewer.
18 times in the 70’s, with 28 goals being the high.
Then twice in the 60’s, once in the 50’s, five times in the 40’s and twice in the 30’s/20’s… though none of them came with more than 24 goals scored.
When all was said and done… as in EVERY NHL SEASON IN HISTORY was accounted for…this is what I found:
Since the very first NHL season was played all the way back in 1917-18……..
*An NHL player scored 20 or more goals in a season a whopping 6,333 times…
*Out of all those 20+ goal seasons, only 93 of them ended without a single goal being scored on the Power Play. . .
**An NHL player scored 25 or more goals in a season 3,741 times…
**Of all those 25+ goal seasons, only 16 of them would end without a single goal being scored on the Power Play. . .
***An NHL player scored 30 or more goals in a season 2,185 times…
***…and only 3 of them would come without a single goal being scored on the Power Play. . .
*****And finally… an NHL player scored 35 or more goals in a season 1,204 times…
*****…….And YES, only 1 of them would be accomplished without a single goal being scored on the Power Play. . .
And that one player was none other than…..
Brandon Hagel
In honor of the Blackhawks final game before the NHL’s 3-week Olympic break tonight, I thought I’d give y’all a nice little Headslappin’, Holy Shit HOCKEY Statistic here to chew on for a bit…
Okay, so I was going through all the hockey scores from the last handful of days and saw that a former Blackhawk fan favorite, Brandon Hagel, set a record on Sunday for the quickest goal ever scored in an NHL outdoor game when he put one home against the Bruins a mere 11 seconds into the contest (it was actually 10 seconds when you watch the replay, imo… but whatever).
The goal gave him 26 on the season, a total that seemed pretty hefty for being less than 2/3 of the way through the schedule, so I thought I’d take a quick look to see how close he was to his career high…
In doing so, I stumbled across something that looked super-duper odd… odd enough that I felt the need to do some more research on it and…..HOLY FREAKIN SHIT!!!
I can’t tell you how glad I am that I looked this shit up because dudes… I am NOT kidding around when I say that I was absolutely fucking FLOORED by what I eventually uncovered. . .
So as it turns out, Hagel set his career high just last season when he put up a very respectable 35 goals to go along with 55 assists, combining for a total of 90 points in 82 games.
Nothing to write home about in general, I suppose… but still pretty fucking awesome for a 27-year old former 6th-round draft pick, if you ask me…
But wait… Ummmmm…… Hold on a second here… Wait… that can’t be right. . .
…and that’s when I saw it. . . . . . . .
Upon closer examination, yes, Hagel DID score 35 goals last season… but NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM CAME ON THE POWER PLAY!!
NOT ONE!!!
Hmmmm… Is it possible he wasn’t slotted on either of the Lightning’s top power play units? Nope, he was. He actually tallied 11 assists on the power play, so it’s not like he wasn’t out there…
Quick Sidenote: Not ALL of those 35 lamp-lighters came during 5-on-5 play, as three of them happened to be shorthanded goals, but still……….
ZERO on the POWER PLAY?!?!?! WTF!!?!
After scratching my head for a while, the only explanation I could come up with was that I must be overreacting.
I mean, does this sort of thing actually happen all the time?
I suppose there COULD be a bunch of players who score most, if not ALL of their goals during 5-on-5 play and I just never realized it…. but damn… 35 is a pretty big number to put up in a season.
Shit, Kaner only hit that mark twice in his career, and 35 is actually Toews’ career high!
I don’t get it. Something is DEFINITELY out of whack here and I gotta know what it is…
Let’s find out!
Okay, now in order to figure out what the heck is going on here, the first thing I’ll need to do is set my research parameters…
I figure the most efficient way to solve this is to look at every single player who scored 20 or more goals last season, then mark down how many of them did so without having a single power play goal.
From there, l can work my way backwards through the years doing the same thing, marking down each time a player scored 20 or more goals on the season without a single one coming on the power play.
And off we go!!
So I pulled up a list of the top goal-scorers last year and began making my way through them top to bottom. . .
Draisaitl - 52 goals, 16 on the power play
Nylander - 45 goals, 12 on the power play
Ovechkin - 44 goals, 14 on the power play
.
.
.
17 players scored more goals than Hagel and 16 of them had at least 7 power play goals (the 17th guy had just 3).
So I continued working my way down the list until Yep, okay, there’s another player without a power play goal…
Aliaksei Protas for the Capitals. 30 goals, 0 on the power play.
After going through everyone with 20 or more goals last season — 147 players in all — I found that only 6 of them didn’t tally a single power play goal:
Brandon Hagel (TB) - 35
Aliaksei Protas (WAS) - 30
Brett Howden (VGK) - 23
Ryan McLeod (BUF) - 20
Owen Tippett (PHI) - 20
Ilya Mikheyev (CHI) - 20
Okay, so maybe this sort of thing DOES happen here and there … but still, that was only 6 out of 147, which in my mind, proves absolutely nothing.
So I press on…
After going through the same process for the next season back (2023-24), my final numbers showed there were 139 players with 20+ goals… and only TWO of them had zero on the power play. Ehlers (WPG) at 25 goals and Hoglander (VAN) at 24.
The 2022-23 season had 129 players with 20+ goals… and ALL OF THEM had at least one goal on the power play.
Year after year after year, I found there to be fewer and fewer examples of 20+ goal-scorers without a power play goal. In fact, from the 2021-22 season on down through the beginning of the millennium (2000-01), there were only 19 such cases, with just FOUR of them coming on 25+ goal seasons (none more than 28).
Well shit, now I HAVE to keep going. I think I might have actually stumbled upon some rare, freaky-ass NHL record here. . .
Jesus, it only happened 9 times throughout the entire 90’s. Once with 29 goals, the rest with 23 or fewer.
29 times in the 80’s. One time it was done with 31 goals (Doug Small (WPG) during the 1984-85 season), one time with 26, one with 25, and the remaining 26 times came with 24 goals or fewer.
18 times in the 70’s, with 28 goals being the high.
Then twice in the 60’s, once in the 50’s, five times in the 40’s and twice in the 30’s/20’s… though none of them came with more than 24 goals scored.
When all was said and done… as in EVERY NHL SEASON IN HISTORY was accounted for…this is what I found:
Since the very first NHL season was played all the way back in 1917-18……..
*An NHL player scored 20 or more goals in a season a whopping 6,333 times…
*Out of all those 20+ goal seasons, only 93 of them ended without a single goal being scored on the Power Play. . .
**An NHL player scored 25 or more goals in a season 3,741 times…
**Of all those 25+ goal seasons, only 16 of them would end without a single goal being scored on the Power Play. . .
***An NHL player scored 30 or more goals in a season 2,185 times…
***…and only 3 of them would come without a single goal being scored on the Power Play. . .
*****And finally… an NHL player scored 35 or more goals in a season 1,204 times…
*****…….And YES, only 1 of them would be accomplished without a single goal being scored on the Power Play. . .
And that one player was none other than…..
Brandon Hagel
