“Montreal Canadiens” to remain the most successful club at the start of the hundredth season in NHL history.
In the West universal benchmark unchanged at Edmonton last week confidently coped with the “Washington” and “Vancouver”, but did not find the approach to “Ottawa”. “Oilers” at one point ahead of Minnesota, perhaps the best team last week, because “Savages,” the last three match (“Boston”, “Buffalo”, “Dallas”) won with a total score of 13:0.
Western conference:
“Montreal” has excellent coped with a difficult schedule – Canadians consistently outplayed “Philadelphia”, “islanders”, “Tampa Bay” and “Toronto”. The weather in “Montreal” make it virtually impenetrable goalie Carey Price and high-scoring rookie Shea Weber scored in nine games and 10 points (4+6).
Eastern conference:
The leaders in the attack:
1. Conor McDavid (Edmonton) – 12 points (5 goals+7 assists)
2. Claude Giroud (“Philadelphia”) – 12 (2+10)
3. Artem Anisimov (Chicago) – 11 (6+5)
4. Jonathan Odie Marchessault (Florida) – 11 (6+5)
5. Wayne Simmonds (Philadelphia) – 11 (6+5)
Leading goaltenders:
1. Jimmy Howard (Detroit) – the reliability coefficient of 0.86, 97,4% of the reflected shots
2. Philip Grunauer (Washington) – Kuf. Of 1.00, 95,3% neg. shots
3. Tuuka Rask (Boston) – Kuf. 1,25, 95.8% of neg. shots
