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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Nobody’s going to score like last year.
The league got a three week break in the middle of the year.
COVID decimated rosters and had lots of guys who wouldn’t be in the lineup in the lineup.
8 guys scored 100+, 16 guys scored 90+.
That isn’t going to happen this year.
It didn’t even happen in 2006, the gold standard for offensive hockey in the modern era.
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Big part was goaltending too.
Shots per game were pretty flat at 31.3 to 31.4 per game in 18-19, 19-20, and 21-22 (ignoring the weird short bubble season)
But save percentage was .910, 910, .907 respectively. That 3 points is a big difference over the course of a season across the league and why goals per game was the highest it’s been since 05-06