{"id":255049,"date":"2026-07-28T16:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/five-surprising-nhl-stats-that-probably-cant-be-replicated-next-season\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:43:32","slug":"five-surprising-nhl-stats-that-probably-cant-be-replicated-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/five-surprising-nhl-stats-that-probably-cant-be-replicated-next-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Five surprising NHL stats that probably can&#8217;t be replicated next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHL<\/a>&#8216;s 2026-27 season is closer than you think, thanks in part to just the second-ever September start in league history.<\/p>\n<p>A new season means new opportunities for players, coaches and entire teams. For some, these new opportunities mean a fresh start, right?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are five surprising stats that NHL teams would, mostly, prefer aren&#8217;t repeated next year.<\/p>\n<p>This can&#8217;t possible happen for a sixth year in a row, right? The Blackhawks have finished 32nd in the NHL in <em>five consecutive years\u00a0<\/em>in Natural Stat Trick&#8217;s expected goal model. That&#8217;s not percentage, that&#8217;s actual generation. For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalstattrick.com\/teamtable.php?fromseason=20212022&amp;thruseason=20212022&amp;stype=2&amp;sit=5v5&amp;score=all&amp;rate=y&amp;team=all&amp;loc=B&amp;gpf=410&amp;fd=&amp;td=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five straight years<\/a> , Chicago has finished last in expected goals generated per 60 minutes at five-on-five. This has been true under five different coaches (Jeremy Colliton, interim Derek King, Luke Richardson, interim Anders Sorensen and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/players\/jeff_blashill\/927843\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Blashill<\/a>). <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/articles\/five_surprising_nhl_stats_that_probably_cant_be_replicated_next_season\/s1_13132_44110152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL&#8216;s 2026-27 season is closer than you think, thanks in part to just the second-ever September start in league history. A new season means new opportunities for players, coaches and entire teams. For some, these new opportunities mean a fresh start, right?\u00a0 Here are five surprising stats that NHL teams would, mostly, prefer aren&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}