Pension Plan Puppets · Dec 9, 2022
Can you actually see the increase in goal scoring this year?
Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty ImagesThere’s an article out now about how just WILD all the games are this year. Scoring is way up, it’s massive, and super sonic, and well, I checked. What exactly is going on with goals, and can you really see that just watching? Or have there just been some anomalous remarkable games like that Kings - Seattle festival of goals and bad play or the Vancouver - Montréal re-enactment?
I compared this season just to last year, so this is hardly rigorous, but who remembers beyond last year? To begin, I looked at five-on-five unadjusted scoring. (I used Evolving Hockey for this).
Five-on-Five
2021-2022: 2.09 Goals per Game
2022 -2023: 2.01 Goals per Game