Monday, October 01, 2007

Final Pre-Season Scoring

Last night, the NHL pre-season ended. There have already been two games in London, England played by the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings, but since the rest of the league does not start their season until Wednesday, pre-season games involving the rest of the league were still underway.

Earlier in the pre-season, I wrote about pre-season scoring so far and cited CBS sportsline as a good source for stats. Not long after I did that, they stopped updating their pre-season stats. The few sources that I know of that list pre-season scoring stats have already replaced them with regular season ones. So for the record here are the top pre-season scorers:

Final Pre-Season NHL Top Scorers
PlayerTeam GPGoalsAssistsPoints
Derek RoyBuffalo56713
Paul Stastny Colorado5549
Pavel DatsyukDetroit5459
Jason Spezza Ottawa5459
Chris Conner Dallas5369
Simon Gagne Philadelphia6279
Joe Pavelski San Jose6279


This list of top scorers includes more of the good players one might expect to see, although it is still dependant upon who got quality ice time (and not all star players did).

Derek Roy was the pre-season scoring star. He looks ready to take a frontline role with Buffalo now that Daniel Briere and Chris Drury are gone after a great pre-season. Paul Stastny, Pavel Datsyuk, Jason Spezza and Simon Gagne are all very good players who look ready to be top players on their NHL teams. Joe Pavelski is a second year player who might take a big step forward offensively. The surprise of the pre-season was Chris Conner of Dallas who has 3 points in his 11 NHL games so far. He is unlikely to be as big a scorer in the NHL as he showed in the pre-season. Likely, the top scorers in the NHL will look quite different from this list.

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