Crazy things can happen over a short period of time in the NHL.
As much as team and individual talent rule in the long run, in the short term hockey is a game of inches, a sport in which a good (or bad) bounce or two, a fraction of a second here or there and a fraction of an inch on a shot can make all the difference to the outcome. Anybody who has witnessed his or her team win a game or a playoff series that it should have lost handily knows this.
A quick look at the early-season stats confirms this. Mason Raymond and Mikkel Boedker currently sit tied with Steven Stamkos and Alex Ovechkin for third in NHL goal-scoring. T.J. Brodie has more points than P.K. Subban or Erik Karlsson. Darcy Kuemper and Frederik Andersen are the game's best goalies; meanwhile defending Vezina Trophy winner Tuukka Rask aspires to be average.
It's no different at the team level, which we'll consider here. Read on for (in no particular order) the most unsustainable stats early in 2014-15.
Statistics via war-on-ice.com and NHL.com. Salary information via CapGeek.com.
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The Most Unsustainable Team Statistics Early in 2014-15 NHL Season
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