Boards
Scoring
Milestone scorers
How many skaters reach 100 points, 50 goals and a point a game, and how many points the league's top scorers have.
100 points
Goaltending
Shooting and saving
How often an attempt that reaches the net area becomes a goal, and how the shots-on-goal count moved under it.
Goals per unblocked attempt
Goalie workload
How much a team leans on its No. 1 goaltender, and how many goaltenders still carry 60 starts.
No. 1 goalie's share
Style of play
The power play
How often a power play scores, for its chances and for its ice time, how much of it teams get, and how few players they give it to.
PP%
How players shoot
Which shots the league takes: the slap shot fades while wrist and snap shots hold two thirds of the attempts.
Slap
Pulling the goalie
How early a team that trails in the third takes its goaltender off for an extra attacker, and the empty-net goals that follow.
Down 1
Fighting
How often the league fights: fewer than in 2016-17, and almost never in the playoffs.
Regular season
Players
An older league
How old the league's skaters are, weighted by the games they play, and how its games divide between the young and the old.
Mean age
Where players come from
Which countries the league's skaters were born in, by their share of the games played.
Canada