We're all familiar with records regarding goal scoring and the legends of the game that come along with them.The worst part about this stat, he only played in 59 games. So as managers attempt to populate the deeper parts of their rosters with players who can contribute in meaningful ways, they are probably acquiring players who may not have that [fighting] element in their skill set. "Rivalries have less importance, and the NHL can no longer actively sell hate and violence and get away with it. The league generated $25 million in operating income, which was a 39% increase from the 2016-17 season. In the 2018-19 season, the NHL had fewer than 200 games with a fighting major, marking the first time in the modern era that the total dipped that low. Meaning that he was on the ice for an average of more than one goal per game.Several other teams have used three goalies in one series, but the Jets managed to squeak past all the others in this one.To make it even better, this was all on a carry over portion of a penalty from a previous period, so they didn't have the full two minutes to score all these goals.333 multiplied by five minutes—assuming there were no misconducts involved, which there probably were—and you get 1,665.From 1989 to 1992, Brett Hull put together seasons of 72, 86, and 70 goals.This is one of those records that makes one ask the everlasting question, "What on earth made him think of doing that?About one half of his career penalty minutes were fights.One really doesn't expect to see goalies tally more than maybe 10 minutes a year, and that would be a bad year.Not too many people might have even the smallest idea who might have the most ties in their career as a goalie.But if it is a really high plus number, it's very impressive.With the way things have gone over the past couple of season, one might expect to see the Philadelphia Flyers on this list, but not so!This record isn't so much odd as it is incredibly impressive.Not terribly surprising, considering Hull was one of the most legendary snipers in the game. Of NHL teams with the most fights, the Philadelphia Flyers average the most per season (66.5) The team with the lowest average number of fights per season … Fights dropped by 48% in the OHL in 2016-17, the season following that change.All of this is happening in an era of unprecedented awareness of player safety and health concerns, specifically when it comes to concussions, CTE and the effects of a physical and injurious game on a player's life well after retirement. For the last decade, the NHL’s attendance numbers have been pretty even, roughly over 17,000 attendees per game. "There were a lot of afternoon naps that were filled with sweaty palms, but the game has never been better and safer. "A fighting ban is still an appropriate goal," Nowinski said, "but based on the choices they have made, I suspect the NHL would prefer to continue to have the threat of fighting as a way to appeal to a subset of fans.
* A fight is counted when at least one player involved receives a fighting major. Although there have been skeptics about fighting's link to the concussion epidemic -- NHL commissioner Gary Bettman wrote in a 2016 letter to the Committee on Energy and Commerce that "only two percent of video-analyzed concussions resulted from fighting" in the previous season -- Chris Nowinski of the Concussion Legacy Foundation sees the downward trend as being tied to that awareness.In just more than a decade, the league that saw Carcillo amass 324 penalty minutes with 19 regular-season fights as a rookie has seen an incremental decline in fighting in every full season of the past 10. Save Percentage does not include empty-net goals, and may be different than league-wide average seen elsewhere. Many are saying there's no going back. "If my team is flat or trailing in a game and I go out and get into a scrape with my counterpart on the other side, more often than not, I can turn momentum.