Music: {allcanada} FACTS AND FIGURES

Friday, October 28, 2011

{allcanada} FACTS AND FIGURES

Here are some facts and figures from Thursday's wild 9-8 shootout between the Winnipeg Jets and Philadelphia Flyers, the highest scoring NHL game in 15 years:

* The 17 total goals are the most scored in a game the San Jose Sharks (10) and Pittsburgh Penguins (8) combined for 18 goals Jan. 13, 1996.

* The Flyers became the first team since those Pens to score eight goals in a game and lose.

* The 17 goals were scored by 15 different players. Only the Flyers' Danny Briere and James van Riemsdyk scored more than one.

* Winnipeg had nine different goal-scorers, the first time that's happened since Pittsburgh had nine different players score goals in a 9-5 win against the New Jersey Devils on Dec. 13, 1990.

* Entering the game, Winnipeg had scored just 17 goals in its first eight games.

* The Flyers had given up nine goals in their first five games.

* The nine goals matched a record for any NHL team from Winnipeg.

* It's the fourth time the Flyers have been involved in a game that featured 17 goals and didn't win. It's also the first time the Flyers scored eight goals in a game and lost.

* Each team scored five straight goals -- Winnipeg in a 14:38 span from 10:01 of the first period to 4:39 of the second; Philadelphia in an 8:51 span from 14:11 of the second to 3:02 of the third.

* Of the 36 skaters to play in Thursday's game, 32 had at least one shot; only Winnipeg's Tim Stapleton, Chris Thorburn and Blake Wheeler, and Philadelphia's Jody Shelley failed to put a puck on net. Van Riemsdyk had a game-high nine shots.

* Fifteen of 18 Winnipeg skaters had at least one point; 13 of 18 Philadelphia skaters got on the score sheet.

* The teams combined for 127 attempts at putting the puck on the net. Winnipeg had 25 shots, 11 that were blocked and seven missed shots; Philadelphia had 48 shots, 19 that were blocked and 17 missed shots.