How every NHL team got its points so far.

A breakdown of every team record in the 2019–20 regular season.

Paulo Conci
Analytics Vidhya
11 min readMar 4, 2020

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With almost only a month left on the regular season, we will see how every point was gathered, the wins and loss record against every team in the league, the save percentage and the correlation between the SV% and SH%, aka. PDO. I will show the records as of 03/03/2020.

A quick explanation, on the chart that counts the wins and losses, it considers overtime and shutout losses a loss. So, even if a team got the “loser point” it counts as a loss.

Anaheim Ducks

Arizona Coyotes

Boston Bruins

Buffalo Sabres

Calgary Flames

Carolina Hurricanes

Chicago Blackhawks

Colorado Avalanche

Columbus Blue Jackets

Dallas Stars

Detroit Red Wings

Edmonton Oilers

Florida Panthers

Los Angeles Kings

Minnesota Wild

Montreal Canadiens

Nashville Predators

New Jersey Devils

New York Islanders

New York Rangers

Ottawa Senators

Philadelphia Flyers

Pittsburgh Penguins

San Jose Sharks

St. Louis Blues

Tampa Bay Lightning

Toronto Maple Leafs

Vancouver Canucks

Vegas Golden Knights

Washington Capitals

And Winnipeg Jets

Closing Remarks

Boston is on pace to win the Presidents’ Trophy with 117 points and has a 7 point lead over Tampa (87), who despite losing 4 of the last 5 games has impressive point streak since January (20–6–1). Toronto (78), now have a 5 point lead for the third spot in the Atlantic over the Panthers who are (3–6–1) in the last 10 games.

Penguins have lost 6 in a row and sit a third in the metropolitan division just 2 points ahead of NY Islanders and CBJ (78), who has a league-leading 7 shutout, being 5 of Elvis Merzlikins (what a find), and only ~40% chance of making to the playoffs this year. With just 3 points ahead of the Hurricanes and 4 of the Rangers, but with more games played (67). Philadelphia has won 8 of the last 10, and are just 5 points behind the Capitals (86).

St. Louis is leading the west just 1 point ahead of Colorado (87), who has won 9 in a row on the road, tied with the NYR for the season-best. Dallas with 81 points, has a 9 point lead over Nashville for the third spot in the Central division.

In the Pacific, Vegas Golden Knights (80) have won 8 of the last 10, and now lead by 2 points the Oilers who have a game in hand and the dynamic duo McDavid and Draisaitl (94 and 107 points respectively). Three teams are close to that third spot. Vancouver has an advantage of 2 games in hand and only 1 point behind Calgary (75), who has 3 points ahead of the Coyotes and Winnipeg. Those 2 wild card spots are being hunted by 5 teams, the last one being the trailing Minnesota Wild with 71 points but only 65 games played.

Acknowledgments

I want to thank the guys at quanthockey and to Team AV for help me publish.

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Paulo Conci
Analytics Vidhya

Undergrad in mechanical engineering, programmer, data analyst.