NHL Hot Offenses
NHL Hot Offenses: San Jose Sharks Are Pouring It On
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Sometimes the cleanest read is the simplest one, goals on the board. Over the last seven days, these are the NHL offenses that have been doing the piling.
Who's piling it on
San Jose Sharks top the table with 13 goals in three games, 4.3 per game, with 8 going the other way.
Florida Panthers are next at 4.3 goals a game, close enough to argue.
Nor is it a two-team story, Seattle Kraken are averaging 4.0 themselves.
The quiet end
St. Louis Blues bring up the rear at 1.0 goals per game over 3 games. Every lineup goes quiet sometimes; theirs has picked now.
That is a 3.3-goals-per-game spread between the two ends of the table, and margins like that are exactly where weekly form shows up.
The board
The leaders, in one glance:
| Team | Games | Goals | Per game |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Jose Sharks | 3 | 13 | 4.3 |
| Florida Panthers | 3 | 13 | 4.3 |
| Seattle Kraken | 3 | 12 | 4.0 |
| Carolina Hurricanes | 3 | 12 | 4.0 |
| Utah Mammoth | 3 | 11 | 3.7 |
The fine print
Everything above is counted from completed games in the window and nothing else: no strength-of-schedule massage, no projections, just the scoreboard.
Scoring comes in waves. This is where the wave is right now, where it breaks next is anybody's honest guess.
The schedule cooperates, too, San Jose Sharks face Vegas Golden Knights next, so this story gets its next chapter almost immediately.