The Stanley Cup Playoffs’ entertaining conference finals maxed out on Game 7s, featured some stunning game-winners, and set a few records along the way. We recount hockey’s Final Four through 58 statistics…
10 out of the last 12 Western Conference finals have featured a California-based team
2009 the first year Martin St. Louis asked to be traded from the Tampa Bay Lightning to the New York Rangers
2014 the year Martin St. Louis again asked to be traded from the Tampa Bay Lightning to the New York Rangers
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23 years of existence before someone scored a playoff hat trick for the Tampa Bay Lightning franchise. Tyler Johnson accomplished the feat by scoring a shorthanded goal, a power-play goal and an even-strength goal in Game 2:
15 years, prior to Johnson’s Game 2 rush, that a player has scored a five-on-three shorthanded in the playoffs (Scott Niedermayer, April 16, 2000 vs. Panthers):
4 game-winning goals for Johnson in these playoffs
632 players selected instead of Johnson at the NHL draft table:
9 years since Henrik Lundqvist surrendered six goals in a playoff game, which he did in Game 2 for the first time since his very first career playoff start in 2006 at New Jersey
2 times in Lundqvist’s entire career that he surrendered six goals on consecutive outings, as he did in games 2 and 3
6 years since one team scored at least six goals in consecutive games during the conference finals or Stanley Cup Final (2009 Penguins)
15 consecutive one-goal playoff games played by the Rangers, a streak snapped with Game 2’s 6-2 loss to the Lightning
14 weeks at No. 1 “Uptown Funk” — the impetus for Lightning playoff parody “Uptown Puck” — spent atop the Billboard chart, making it the longest-running No. 1 single of the 2010s decade
10:30 a.m., time of day McDonald’s stops serving breakfast in the 1999 Adam Sandler movie ‘Big Daddy’ which also features a Rangers-Lightning showdown:
4 of the NHL’s last four triple-overtime games that have involved the Chicago Blackhawks
78.5 NHL rule that dictates a goal cannot be valid when head-butted into the net, Andrew Shaw style:
60 saves made by Corey Crawford in Game 2’s marathon — a career high
71 hits thrown by the Ducks in Game 2’s triple-overtime classic
116:12 length of Game 2, the Blackhawks’ longest game in franchise history
49:51 time on ice, a career high, for Duncan Keith in Game 2
25 triple-overtime games played between 1919 and 1996
25 triple-overtime games played between 1997 and 2015
“1 goal, 1 bounce, 1 shot away from feeling good about yourself.” — Martin St. Louis, when he was stuck with 0 goals this post-season
1 goal scored by St. Louis all post-season, a career low
18 games, length of St. Louis’ goal-scoring drought, which he finally snapped in Game 4’s 5-1 victory:
9 playoffs teams that have scored fewer goals than Tampa’s Triplets line
12 weeks since Anaheim’s Frederik Andersen lost consecutive games, which he did in games 6 and 7 to Chicago
4 episodes of the incredible Freaks and Geeks in which Shaun Weiss (a.k.a. the kid who played goalie Goldberg in The Mighty Ducks) also appeared
2 different sticks used by Corey Perry in one rush:
$5 million paycheque Jeremy Piven reportedly got — more than double that of his co-stars — for appearing in Entourage, the film Rick Nash and the Rangers watched together between games 3 and 4
4 consecutive games in which Steven “Is he injured? What’s wrong?” Stamkos scored in the conference final
16-0 Blackhawks’ record in games after a series is tied 2-2 under Joel Quenneville — prior to dropping Game 5 in Anaheim
28 career playoff assists for Anaheim’s Francois Beauchemin, passing Scott Niedermayer for the franchise record among defencemen
37 seconds, time it took the Ducks to score three goals and take the lead in the third period of Game 4 in Chicago:
23 seconds, time it took the Toronto Maple Leafs (including defenceman Quenneville) to score three playoff goals against the Atlanta Flames on April 12, 1979, the fastest in history
4 games that required at least two overtime periods won by the Blackhawks this post-season, an NHL record
2 years, length of Keith Yandle’s personal playoff drought, snapped with some eerily similar statistics:
53 age of actor Emilio Estevez, who played coach Gordon Bombay in The Mighty Ducks, and used the phrase “cray cray” while live-tweeting Anaheim’s Game 5 victory:
35 age cutoff, absolute, for using the term “cray cray”
$5 million annual salary Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman figures Game 5 OT hero and UFA-in-waiting Matt Beleskey could command on the open market. Of the scored 29 goals Beleskey scored this season, none were bigger than this:
7 years ago, the last time Beleskey was a 20-goal guy, as a fourth-year OHL player in Belleville
62,645 likes on the NHL Instagram page for this photo of Beleskey crawling out of his own celebration
18 points, the previous Ducks franchise record for points in the playoffs, held by Ryan Getzlaf
19 points, the new Ducks record for points in the playoffs, held by Ryan Getzlaf
24 games former Rangers captain Ryan Callahan had gone without a goal until this Game 6 beauty against his former club:
99 iconic sweater number of Wayne Gretzky, the last Ranger to score a hat trick in the conference finals before Derick Brassard did so in Game 6 (his first career hatty!)
3 times in NHL history that both Stanley Cup semifinals went to seven games (1964, 2000, 2015)
12-1 Blackhawks’ record in Game 6s since the beginning of the 2009 playoffs
$4,500 price this guy paid to sit rinkside and watch his Rangers lose Game 7:
7 more points Duncan Keith has registered than the next highest-scoring defenceman in the playoffs
1 goaltender in history to record a shutout in his first two career Game 7s: Ben Bishop
2 assists recorded by Bishop in Game 7s, one per game
2 games, according to Rangers coach Alain Vigneualt, that captain Ryan McDonagh played on a broken foot
4,900 times this incredible Teemu Selanne tweet was favourited:
Who says I miss hockey??? https://t.co/ln5RWH2vZV pic.twitter.com/OAvf54nma6
— Teemu Sel8nne (@TeemuSel8nne) May 30, 2015
15 members of the Lightning who played in more wins at Madison Square Garden this season than Carmelo Anthony did (per @ByTimReynolds)
6 Game 7s lost by Anaheim’s Bruce Boudreau, the first NHL coach to lose that many
3 consecutive seasons the Ducks have been eliminated at home in Game 7, the only NHL team ever to do so
8-0 career Game 7 record for Chicago’s Brad Richards, the longest undefeated streak to begin an NHL career
0 fighting majors handed out in the conference finals
(Numbers via SN Stats, Twitter, Elias, NHL.com, various teams, and sitting around counting things.)