Who Will Score The Most Goals For The Kraken?
Walt Hazzard led the '67-'68 Sonics in PPG (24.0), Sherman Smith led the '76 Seahawks in TDs (5 ... yikes), Ruppert Jones led the '77 M's in runs (85), Edna Campbell led the '00 Storm in PPG (13.9), and Fredy Montero led the '09 Sounders in goals (12). Who'll go down as the top scorer of the Kraken's first season? First of all, not a goalie. A goalie has scored only 15 times in NHL history — 7 of which were own goals. Defenders score about 1 in every 7 NHL goals. But those numbers are skewed by a small number of offensive-minded defensemen. No defenseman led his team in scoring in 2020-21; only 3 teams had a defenseman among their top 5 scorers. So not a defenseman either. Centers score the most out of any position — players listed as centers accounted for 2,223 of the 5,031 NHL goals scored in 20-21, or 44% of the total. But centers are not the most potent goalscorers. Purely from a rate-based, time-on-ice perspective, wingers score the most go...