There’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).