It’s safe to say we have reached the stretch drive of the WHL season. We have one month left in the regular season and there are lots of battle for playoff positions. Let’s take a closer look at those clubs’ strength of schedule to see who could have the advantage […]
Tag: WHL Stats
B.C. Division Update
With four teams posting records at least nine games above.500 as they approach the 60-game mark of the regular season, it can be argued the B.C. Division might be the deepest in the league. Okay, it’s very close and its western conference adversaries in the U.S. Division might beg […]
Random WHL Stats as of February 6
If the playoffs started today … Regina vs Saskatoon (Pats lead season series 3-0-1-0) Medicine Hat vs Brandon (Tigers lead the season series 2-1) Moose Jaw vs Swift Current (Warriors lead the season series 2-1) Lethbridge vs Red Deer (Hurricanes lead the season series 4-0-1-0, 1 of the wins was […]
Another WHL/WCHL player joins the famed NHL 500 Goal Club.
Photo Credit – Yahoo Sports After tonight’s goal by Patrick Marleau of the NHL’s San Jose Sharks, DUBNetwork thought it might be a good chance to showcase Patrick Marleau and the eight other former WHL/WCHL players who have reached the 500 NHL goal plateau. Joe Sakic (Retired) – 625 NHL […]
WHL Point A Game Players January 22/17
Rank Name Team GP G A PTS +/- PTS/G 1 Steel, Sam REG 38 34 49 83 34 2.18 2 Brooks, Adam REG 38 25 55 […]
WHL PP + PK
Which WHL teams are the strongest on the specialty teams? This is a simple equation of combining the teams PP % and PK %. Team PP PK Total Regina 32.8 80.9 113.7% Everett 24.8 87.8 112.6% Medicine Hat 28 81.1 109.1% Tri City 26.4 81.5 107.9% Portland 25.8 79.9 105.7% […]
Lists: Team Edition January 18, 2017
Most Fights Vancouver Giants – 31 Spokane Chiefs – 30 Kelowna Rockets – 28 Lethbridge Hurricanes – 27 Least Fights Everett Silvertips – 8 Portland Winterhawks – 9 Seattle Thunderbirds – 14 Tri-City Americans – 15 Most 1st Period Goals Regina Pats – 71 Lethbridge Hurricanes – 64 Portland Winterhawks […]
Does Your Birthdate Matter?
In 2011 Malcom Gladwell’s book “Outlier: The Story Of Success” he has a chapter on hockey and how much of an advantage is it for kids to be born earlier in the year. As you know in minor hockey you are grouped in your birth year but kids born in […]
A look back at ’16 and ahead to ’17
Trying to sum up 2016 has been a struggle. I wanted to start this article a few weeks ago and add to it as time went on but it really hasn’t been easy to put my thoughts down on paper. WHLStats started on December 26th, 2015. Jesse and I worked […]
WHL Bantam Drafted Players on Rosters
As I was watching an Islanders-Capitals game yesterday TV Analyst Butch Goring had a stat that Washington had 14 former 1st round picks on their roster. That got me to thinking about the WHL teams and how many 1st round Bantam picks were on each team. Then of course I […]
