NHL Season Summary 2011-12
No more that was given six months of regular season with 82 games each team. Now begins the best part of the year in the world ice hockey, NHL Playoffs, a postseason every year is proving that gives epic and dramatic crashes. That will be on Wednesday but meanwhile we review these intense months of competition. The campaign started with the return of the NHL to Winnipeg and ends with the return of South Florida to the playoffs. We had a striker who has reached the figure of 60 points per second time in sixteen years (Stamkos) , a team with twenty-three straight wins at home (Detroit Red Wings), a player with 8 points in a game (Sam Gagner, Oilers), and all this after 1,230 games. Very good season is reflected in attendance figures to the pavilions, an average of 95.6% of capacity.
Florida Panthers is one of the great successes of this year. A year after his last in the Southeast Division, earn your group, something that never happened since the conference format of two (from 74/75) and play the playoffs for the first time since 2000, ending the playoff drought longest current NHL. So, Stephen Weiss will play its first postseason meeting after 637 regular-season games in his career.
It’s been a year of great differences, or high productivity of some, it depends how you look. Last year we had four teams with 100 points. This season has eight sets, but all eight are located in only two divisions: the Atlantic Division with Rangers, Penguins, Flyers and Devils, and the Central Division with Blues, Predators, Red Wings and Blackhawks. Two divisions have tremendously strong and has been open until the last day for his weakness as has been the Pacific, and even further behind the Noroesste where only Vancouver has a lot size of the second distance.
Only two division champions title repeated over 2010/11, the two finalists of the Stanley Cup last year, Canucks (winner of the President’s Trophy) and Bruins. The Rangers are the third champion of the Atlantic in three years, replacing Blues Red Wings, Panthers at Capitals and Coyotes at Sharks.
With respect to individual figures, it is noteworthy above all to the Lightning forward Steven Stamkos, author of 60 goals, Stamkos has scored 12 goals in addition to his team won the match, but Tampa has been left behind to qualify for postseason. On the other hand, Sam Gagner Edmonton Oilers was the 11th player in history to record 8 points in one game and was the Feb. 2 against Chicago. Martin Brodeur has played over 70,000 minutes in the NHL, Jarome has scored 500 goals Inginla and Jaromir Jagr has more than 1,600 points.
Let’s talk more records, the Red Wings made the consecutive wins at home (23), those of the Blues who have made the best numbers in franchise history at home, in addition to his pair of porters-Halak and Elliott Bruins who completed the best November in history with fifteen consecutive games scoring (14-0-1), some champions that come with doubts Playoffs after three months at a lower level of play.
The great news have gone through the motions of coaches like Boudreau’s farewell to Washington and his arrival in Anaheim where almost raises the Ducks, falling Chris Pronger all season in a Flyers who have noticed and have not met expectations with the offseason signings, especially in goal, the return of the elite Rangers once and for all, a new edition of the Winter Classic, this time in Philadelphia, the trade deadline in February and their movements, the resurgence the Blues and the anticipated return of Sidney Crosby on the ice that makes the most feared team Penguins in Playoffs.
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