Everyones losing their minds below are the stats from last year to this year. Yes its been a horrendous road trip but when has our Western Canada Trip ever gone our way. I also think it was a horrible decision putting out basically a grind line on the final PP last night with our youngest Dman to close out that game, Dean said "Oli gets a good stick on it and it was unlucky". Great Oli got a stick on the shot, but we were on a PP we shouldn't of given up a damn shot at all. But the stats below show some improvement, and overall we were 5-8-2 to start last year this year were 7-7-1, so I guess that's a minor improvement.

📊 Team Performance Comparison

Goals Per Game

  • 2024-25: ~3.26
  • 2025-26: ~3.07 (slightly lower early on)

Goals Against Per Game

  • 2024-25: ~3.45
  • 2025-26: ~3.00–3.10 (improved early-season defense)

Expected Goals For (xGF / 60, 5v5)

  • 2024-25: ~2.45
  • 2025-26: ~2.50 (slight uptick)

Expected Goals Against (xGA / 60, 5v5)

  • 2024-25: ~2.95
  • 2025-26: ~2.60–2.65 (defense showing real improvement)

🥅 Goaltending

Team Save %

  • 2024-25: ~.891
  • 2025-26: ~.905–.910 (major improvement early)

Elvis Merzlikins SV%

  • 2024-25: ~.900
  • 2025-26: ~.909 (better form to start year)

🛡️ Defensive Metrics

Shots Against Per Game

  • 2024-25: ~30.0
  • 2025-26: ~28.5–29.0 (slightly better suppression)
Season Power Play % (PP%) Penalty Kill % (PK%)
2024-25 19.5% (ranked 22nd) StatMuse+2The Hockey Writers+2 77.0% (ranked 22nd) StatMuse+1
2025-26 (early) ~13.9% (ranked ~31st) ESPN.com+2StatMuse+2 ~71.4% (ranked ~28th) StatMuse+1

3 comments

  2. Thank you for the stats. I’m a huge doomer and have been very disappointed in the team so far this season.

    I looked back at last years schedule and wanted to share the following:

    2024 games – early season roadtrip

    11/2/24 – @ Caps – L 7-2
    11/5/24 – @ Sharks – OTL 2-1
    11/9/24 – @ LA – L 5-2
    11/10/24 – @ Anaheim L 4-2
    11/12/24 – @ Seattle L 5-2

    Now that looks extremely similar to this road trip and those games were not close and had longer time in between. Also to note last year had less OT games so less points overall for teams we are competing with for playoffs. So point %s are higher this year so being .500 doesn’t matter as much when everyone is .500 because they have more OT loser points.

    I’m not going to jump to the conclusion that the season is toast. We are far from that still. But I will voice my frustration loudly because the ways we have lost recently are inexcusable.

    Edit: Maybe Portzline saw this post then posted the exact same stretch of games on his Twitter lol.

  3. The biggest issue for me is that no one seems comfortable playing together yet. Fantilli-Marchy-Vronk felt like an actual line last night as did Olivier-Coyle-Chinakhov. But I don’t know what combo needs to happen between the other 8 guys and it seems Dean and his staff are at a loss too.

    I think Chinakhov needs to stay in the lineup and Wood should get the nod over ZAR since he’s shown his speed and sound positional hockey that led to goal scoring. LDBB on the 4th just doesn’t make sense to me. Waddell didn’t bring him up last year until he could get top 9 minutes and now he’s done the classic mistake of putting a scorer on the 4th to prove he can do it in the NHL…with way less oz%…and tougher road matchups….and wingers who don’t generate offense.

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