With the goals-per-game average going down in the NHL, there is what can almost be perceived as panic to increase goal-scoring in the league. I chose to take a deeper look into goal-scoring in the NHL as well as the other three leagues that can be considered as the top tier of the international hockey world, to see how the goals-per-game average had changed over the last few years.
Comparing Finland's Liiga, Sweden's SHL and the pan-European KHL over the last five years along with NHL numbers should help see what is going on in the world of hockey more in a general trend than what might just be an NHL trend.