Rather than waiting until the end of the week, I thought I'd publish all nine posts in my series on the best teams and players of the last decade. Why nine posts? With the lockout, there were nine NHL seasons in the last decade.
Here's everything in the series:
Teams of the Decade: Regular Season Wins
Teams of the Decade: Shooting and PDO
Teams of the Decade: Playoff Wins
Players of the Decade: Games Played, Goals, Assists, Points
Players of the Decade: +/- and PIMs
Players of the Decade: Shots on Goal
Players of the Decade: Ice Time
Players of the Decade: Per-Game Scoring
Players of the Decade: Playoffs
Goaltenders of the Decade: Regular Season
Goaltenders of the Decade: Playoffs
If you want to save yourself the trip to all of these pieces, here are the leaders in numerous categories:
Regular Season Wins, Win%, Shot Differential and Playoff Wins: Detroit Red Wings
Playoff Win%: Anaheim Ducks
PDO: Minnesota Wild
Games Played: Andrew Brunette
Playoff Games Played: Brian Rafalski
Goals, Shots and Total Ice Time (forwards): Jarome Iginla
Shooting Percentage: Alex Tanguay
Playoff Shooting Percentage: Martin St. Louis
Assists and Points: Joe Thornton
Playoff Points: Patrick Elias
+/- and Total Ice Time: Nicklas Lidstrom
Playoff Ice Time: Scott Niedermayer
Playoff Goals and Playoff Ice Time (fowards): Joe Sakic
PIMs: Donald Brashear
Ice Time per Game and Playoff +/-: Chris Pronger
Ice Time per Game (forwards): Mario Lemieux
Goals per Game: Alex Ovechkin
Assists per Game: Peter Forsberg
Points per Game: Sidney Crosby
Goaltender Regular Season and Playoff Wins and Regular Season and Playoff Minutes: Martin Brodeur
Playoff Winning Percentage: Jean-Sebastien Giguere
Goals-Against-Average: Roman Cechmanek
Playoff Goals-Against-Average: Ilya Bryzgalov
Save Percentage: Niklas Backstrom
Playoff Save Percentage: Ron Tugnutt
