Today's trivia question: two players won three Stanley Cups between 2000 and 2009. Who were they? Answer at the bottom of the column…
For all of the focus on the playoffs, individual statistics in the playoffs don't tend to get remembered. For example, it's a very small group of players who played in the playoffs every year over the last decade:
| Player | Playoffs | GP |
| Rafalski | 9 | 142 |
| Niedermayer | 9 | 134 |
| Lidstrom | 9 | 121 |
| Holmstrom | 9 | 119 |
| Pandolfo | 9 | 115 |
| Elias | 9 | 114 |
| Madden | 9 | 112 |
| Maltby | 9 | 109 |
| Draper | 9 | 108 |
| White | 9 | 106 |
| Pronger | 9 | 105 |
| Tanguay | 9 | 98 |
| Langenbrunner | 9 | 88 |
| Shanahan | 9 | 83 |
Among players who didn’t make the playoffs every year, Scott Gomez and Stephane Yelle each played 114 playoff games; Chris Drury played 111. What about total ice time? Niedermayer, Lidstrom, Rafalski and Pronger have logged vastly more minutes than the #5 guy:
| Player | TOI | Player | TOI | |
| Niedermayer | 3563 | Sakic | 2111 | |
| Lidstrom | 3496 | Elias | 2084 | |
| Rafalski | 3333 | Drury | 2057 | |
| Pronger | 3098 | Madden | 1980 | |
| Foote | 2285 | Gomez | 1877 | |
| Stuart | 2096 | Recchi | 1872 | |
| Blake | 2092 | Modano | 1869 | |
| Redden | 2029 | Hejduk | 1858 | |
| Hatcher | 1979 | Zetterberg | 1826 | |
| White | 1969 | Pandolfo | 1817 |
What about leading goal scorers?
| G | |
| Sakic | 43 |
| Drury | 41 |
| Zetterberg | 39 |
| Elias | 38 |
| Marleau | 35 |
| Forsberg | 33 |
| Hossa | 31 |
| Alfredsson | 30 |
| Recchi | 29 |
| Sykora | 29 |
| Franzen | 29 |
Shooting percentage leaders?
| SPCT | |
| St. Louis | 20.0 |
| Forsberg | 18.0 |
| Marleau | 17.1 |
| Nieuwendyck | 16.9 |
| Roberts | 16.8 |
| Iginla | 15.4 |
| Young | 15.4 |
| Lang | 15.3 |
| Tanguay | 15.2 |
| Crosby | 15.2 |
And in the points department?
| P | |
| Elias | 102 |
| Sakic | 94 |
| Forsberg | 92 |
| Lidstrom | 88 |
| Rafalski | 86 |
| Gomez | 81 |
| Drury | 80 |
| Pronger | 79 |
| Zetterberg | 76 |
| Hossa | 74 |
There are a lot of familiar names in the +/- department:
| +/- | |
| Pronger | 42 |
| Rafalski | 39 |
| Forsberg | 38 |
| Stevens | 31 |
| Franzen | 29 |
| Zetterberg | 24 |
| Elias | 23 |
| O’Donnell | 23 |
| Drury | 22 |
| Sykora | 21 |
Perhaps game-winning goals are more memorable?
| GWG | GWG | |||
| Drury | 13 | Lidstrom | 7 | |
| Forsberg | 13 | Hull | 7 | |
| Marleau | 10 | Richards | 7 | |
| Franzen | 10 | Langenbrunner | 7 | |
| Sakic | 9 | Selanne | 7 | |
| Alfredsson | 8 | Briere | 7 | |
| Sykora | 8 | St. Louis | 7 | |
| Modano | 8 | Barnes | 7 |
Maybe…Maybe not. It's been a long decade and my memory of the playoffs beyond the last two Detroit-Pittsburgh finals is rather hazy…
Trivia answer: Scott Niedermayer and Brian Rafalski…
