Who doesn’t love a good stat? We let the numbers paint the picture of how the Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Boston Bruins to claim their second Stanley Cup championship in four years. Nerds and jocks, unite!
34 years since the Stanley Cup final featured two Original Six teams
21 years between Cup final appearances for Boston’s Jaromir Jagr, the longest such gap for any player in history
5th place secured by Jagr on the all-time NHL playoff points list, surpassing Paul Coffey with an assist in Game 3
1 player (Jagr) among the NHL’s top six all-time playoff points leaders who has never played for the Edmonton Oilers
1 player (Jagr) among the NHL’s top 44 all-time playoff points leaders who is still active; the Devils’ Patrik Elias ranks 45th
58 shots by Jagr in these playoffs
0 goals by Jagr in these playoffs
53 shots by Florida’s Gord Murphy in 1996, the former record holder for most shots in one playoff year without a goal
8 consecutive Stanley Cup final multiple-overtime games won by the road team (out of 8) until Chicago ended the streak by winning Game 1 in triple overtime at United Center
100% of the series in the 2013 playoffs to feature at least one overtime game, a first since the NHL adopted a best-of-seven format for all four rounds in 1987
59 home victories in this postseason, an NHL record
27 overtime games in these playoffs
28 the most overtime games played in one NHL postseason (1993)
6.358 million average viewers for Game 1 on NBC, the most-watched Game 1 of the final since 1997
6 seconds short of Andrew Shaw’s triple-OT winner that this guy’s PVR timed out
19 jersey number of both Jonathan Toews and the dinosaur outside of Chicago’s Field Columbian Museum:
22 consecutive games Boston forward Chris Kelly had been held without a goal until he scored the game-tying marker of Game 2
2004 last year the Stanley Cup final was tied 1-1, a streak snapped when the Bruins and ‘Hawks split their first two contests
20 years since the final featured three overtimes; in 1993 Montreal won all three OT games over the L.A. Kings
13-1 Bruins’ record in Game 3s under coach Claude Julien
4-0 Bruins’ 2013 record in Game 3s
0-4 Blackhawks’ 2013 record in Game 3s
9-0 Blackhawks 2013 postseason record when Jonathan Toews scores a point
7-7 Blackhawks record when Toews doesn’t record a point
9 lives, according to popular mythology, of the “kitty cat,” which is what Brad Marchand called Andrew Shaw after an alleged eye-gouge in Game 3:
4 goals for Bruins depth forward Daniel Paille through 46 career playoff games prior to 2013, none of them game-winners
4 goals for Paille through his first 19 games this postseason, three of them game-winners
3 assists for Tyler Seguin through the first three rounds of the playoffs
3 assists for Seguin through the first three games of the final series
3 Bruins playoff victories Roberto Luongo can’t quite recall:
2 overtime winners for Brent Seabrook in the 2013 playoffs
1 other goals by Seabrook in the playoffs
129:14 shutout streak by Tuukka Rask that spanned games 2 to 4, until Michal Handzus beat him
193:16 Rask’s home shutout streak, outlasting Gary Cheevers (1969) for the Bruins’ single-postseason record
6 goals allowed by Rask in Game 4
5 times in his entire career Rask has allowed five or more goals
5 goals allowed by Corey Crawford in Game 4
5 goals allowed by Crawford on his glove side in Game 4:
55 seconds after Patrick Sharp scored that Bruins No. 55 Johnny Boychuk scored to tie the game 5-5
137.5 km/h speed of Boychuk’s game-tying blast:
22 different players who registered a point in Game 4
0 helmets worn by Bruins captain Zdeno Chara while riding his bike on game day:
50/50 chance Chara could eat that bicycle, in a pinch
40% increase in NBC’s viewership rating from last year’s Cup-clinching Game 6
3 consecutive American Conn Smythe winners, an NHL record
7 non-Canadian Conn Smythe winners total; 6 of them that have been crowned from 2002 onward
13 Stanley Cup finals (of 19) lost by the Bruins
13 Stanley Cup rings for Scotty Bowman (9 as coach, 4 as front-office person)
50 Stanley Cup rings for Scotty Bowman, by Theo Fleury’s estimate:
17.7 seconds the Blackhawks needed in Game 6 to complete the most dramatic and latest comeback in Cup-clinching history
17:45 minutes logged by Patrice Bergeron — suffering from a broken rib, cartilage and muscle damage and a separated shoulder — in Game 6
2 times Chicago coach Joel Quenneville cited, unprompted, during Game 6’s press conference, his team’s 2011 seven-game playoff loss to Vancouver as meaningful experience for this championship
1 player, Dave Bolland, to score a Cup-winning goal in the final minute of regulation
1 moonwalks executed by “Captain Serious”:
