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The Florida Panthers second consecutive trip to the Stanley Cup Finals ends in success, as the franchise wins their first championship in their thirty-year history. To hoist the Cup, they needed to knock out three 100-point teams including the, at one-time unlikely Finals opponent, Edmonton Oilers. The Oilers season started in disarray, with only a 3-9-1 record in mid-November before firing their coach. A 46-18-5 run followed the rest of the way, including a 16-game win streak that stretched from December 21^st through the end of January.

Edmonton faced the same slow start in the Stanley Cup Finals series itself. Florida took the first three games and pushed Edmonton to the brink of elimination before the Oilers roared back with three wins of their own to force a Game 7. Florida stopped Edmonton short, winning Game 7, 2-1, with Panthers leading scorer Sam Reinhart (57 regular season goals) scoring the game-winner.

Speaking of 50-goal scorers, there were plenty in this year’s NHL season. Joining Reinhart were Hart Memorial Trophy winner Nathan MacKinnon tallied 51 goals, Edmonton winger Zach Hyman netted 54, and Toronto’s Auston Matthews reached 60 for a second time in his career, finishing with 69 goals, the most in an NHL season since Mario Lemieux scored 69 in 1995-96.

Two players, Nikita Kucherov of Tampa Bay and Connor McDavid of Edmonton, reached the coveted 100-assist mark, the first time anyone had gotten there in over 30 years since Wayne Gretzky had 122 assists in 1990-91. Kucherov scored 44 goals himself, leading the league with 144 points. MacKinnon added 89 assists (140 points) and McDavid 32 goals (132 points) to round out the top 3 point scorers. Six more reached 100 points: Artemi Panarin, David Pastrnak, Matthews, Leon Draisaitl, Mikko Rantanen, and J.T. Miller.

Panarin’s New York Rangers (55-23-4, 114 points) were the top regular-season team, besting nine other teams with at least 100 points. Dallas, led by Jason Robertson (29-51-80) and Vancouver joined the Rangers and Panthers as division winners. The Canucks were led by three 30-goal scorers: Brock Boeser (40), Miller (37), and Elias Pettersson (34).

Two teams scored 300 goals for the season, Colorado Avalanche (304) and Toronto Maple Leafs (303). The Winnipeg Jets had the league’s best defense, allowing only 199 goals while the combination of Vezina-finalist Sergei Bobrovsky (2.37 GAA) and Anthony Stolarz (2.03) kept the champion Panthers closely behind with only 200 goals against.

Vezina Trophy winner Connor Hellebuyck (2.39) led the league in Goalie Point Shares and Goals Saved Above Average and trailed only Stolarz in Save Percentage (.921 to Stolarz’ .925).

Thatcher Demko of Vancouver, the other Vezina trophy finalist, tied the Islanders’ Semyon Varlamov for third in save percentage with a .918 number.

Four goalies tied for the league lead of six shutouts, Bobrovsky, Charlie Lindgren, Tristan Jarry, and Connor Ingram.

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