The Toronto Maple Leafs and the Tampa Bay Lightning have played 5 games of their opening round Stanley Cup playoff series, and they are in a virtual dead-heat statistically.
Goals for the Toronto Maple Leafs: 21. Goals for the Tampa Bay Lightning: 20. Shots per game for Toronto: 32.4, shots per game for Tampa Bay: 32.8 (stats per nhl.com). We could dig deeper and look at the Corsi numbers for the Leafs forwards or the faceoff percentages for the Lightning centres.
We could even endlessly quote poor Justin Holl’s goals for/against in all situations (that would be 14-2 the bad way, but who’s counting?