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Obscure playoff stats that might surprise you

seventieslord said:
that's not that obscure; it's quoted all the time.

Even more interesting is that Roy lost more series in 7 games than he lost in 4, 5 and 6 combined. Even if you include series losses in 1987 and 88 in which he shared time with Hayward and count them as series losses all on him, Roy lost just 13 series, and 7 of them were 7 games.

Now think of all the series he won (31 I believe), which gives him a total of 44 series, just 6 of which he didn't win at least 3 games in. It was practically a sure thing (86%) from 1986 to 2003 that if you faced Patrick Roy in the playoffs, he was either going to beat you or take it to 7 games.
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That's actually pretty incredible based on further evidence. It takes the whole idea of the 6-7 record and examines it. Amazing that 14% of the time a team played Patrick Roy they needed less than 7 game to do it. While the other 86% is him winning or stretching it to 7.

Sort of reminds me a bit of Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers. A 4-3 record in the World Series. Yet he has a 0.95 ERA in those games. That's just incredible and reflects poorly on the Dodger hitters that somehow Koufax lost three games while averaging less than one earned run against. Many people would pick Koufax as a guy they would pick as their #1 guy pitching in Game 7 of the World Series while the same can be said of Patrick Roy.
 
seventieslord said:
Sixteen seasons in, and the Jets/Thrashers have yet to win a playoff game at all!
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Sutter pours bourbon said:
Fifteen seasons in, and the Blue Jackets have yet to win a playoff game in regulation time.
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Both a little shocking and pathetic at the same time. I didn't even have to look any of them up, it isn't as if either team was a regular in the playoffs. Atlanta had Hossa, Kovalchuk, Savard and at the trade deadline picked up Tkachuk in 2007 and got swept by a so-so Rangers team.

What is it with Winnipeg old and new though? It took Winnipeg/Phoenix 25 years after 1987 before they won another playoff series.

Maybe this one doesn't surprise a whole lot of people, but Rick MacLeish led the Flyers in playoff scoring both years they won the Cup, and by a significant margin too:

MacLeish - 42
Clarke - 32
Barber - 24

Not to mention just one career playoff point less than Barber and 12 less than Clarke. Yet who do we rarely give credit to when talking about those Flyers teams?
 
Big Phil said:
Maybe this one doesn't surprise a whole lot of people, but Rick MacLeish led the Flyers in playoff scoring both years they won the Cup, and by a significant margin too:

MacLeish - 42
Clarke - 32
Barber - 24

Not to mention just one career playoff point less than Barber and 12 less than Clarke. Yet who do we rarely give credit to when talking about those Flyers teams?
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I think MacLeish was just too slick to be the first name that pops into people's heads when they're thinking about the Broad Street Bullies. 'Hawk' being just a bit too avian when you line it up with 'Hammer', 'Cannon', and the likes of Clarke, Van Impe and Dupont. Same thing kind of happens with Bill Barber. Both guys were hard working two way players despite their skill, just not goons. Real underrated, absolutely essential core guys though.
 
Sutter pours bourbon said:
I think MacLeish was just too slick to be the first name that pops into people's heads when they're thinking about the Broad Street Bullies. 'Hawk' being just a bit too avian when you line it up with 'Hammer', 'Cannon', and the likes of Clarke, Van Impe and Dupont. Same thing kind of happens with Bill Barber. Both guys were hard working two way players despite their skill, just not goons. Real underrated, absolutely essential core guys though.
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Right. And guess who missed the 1976 playoffs? It wasn't just Bernie Parent it was MacLeish. Despite the Habs sweeping them all but one game was within a goal. They could have used MacLeish.


Okay here is another one and I don't think anyone has broken this record. In fact it shocked me when I heard it this year. Troy Brouwer, about as obscure as a name as you can find has quite the ironman streak when it comes to 7 game playoff series. Up until this series against San Jose Brouwer's previous 8 playoff series he played in - mostly with Washington - went 7 games. This dates back to vs. Vancouver in 2011 with that heartbreaking overtime winner by Burrows. Can you imagine that? That's 8 series in a row he played in that went 7 games. It ended tonight with San Jose winning this series in 6 games.

Who else did this? First off I am trying to think of someone on the 1993 Leafs. They played in three straight Game 7s that spring. Was there a player who left the team or had a lot of straight Game 7s prior to that? I don't think so. I honestly can't even imagine someone coming close to this record. It is so random.
 
Big Phil said:
Right. And guess who missed the 1976 playoffs? It wasn't just Bernie Parent it was MacLeish. Despite the Habs sweeping them all but one game was within a goal. They could have used MacLeish.
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Parent played in the 1976 playoffs (and was healthy throughout) - after a bad end to the Toronto series, and a bad start to the Boston series, he was benched in favor of Wayne Stephenson:

http://hockeygoalies.org/bio/nhl/logs/PHI1975.html
 
Doctor No said:
Parent played in the 1976 playoffs (and was healthy throughout) - after a bad end to the Toronto series, and a bad start to the Boston series, he was benched in favor of Wayne Stephenson:

http://hockeygoalies.org/bio/nhl/logs/PHI1975.html
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Didn't play in the finals if I recall though. Thought he had an injury in the postseason as well (not the eye injury in 1979 that did him in but a different one).
 
The only time Patrick Roy did NOT post a playoff shutout in a year he won the Stanley Cup was ironically the year many consider to be his finest hour- 1993.

(He had 1 shutout in '86, 3 in '96, 4 in 2001.)
 
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