from Dave Stubbs of NHL.com,

Statistics are the foundation of the NHL, the digital bedrock on which both the great players and the journeymen built the game. Before Corsi and Fenwick and the percentages of advanced stats, analyses that are all the rage today, were simply the goals, scored at even strength, on power plays and shorthanded; the assists that set up the goals; the penalty minutes that always had the potential to change the tide; and the goaltender's rudimentary goals-against average.

Now comes an online resource for the most hard-core fan, to whom hockey's basic numbers are almost a religion. As part of its ongoing Centennial celebration, the NHL, on its NHL.com website, is offering a statistical treasure chest in the form of box scores from every postseason game in NHL history and richly detailed playoff game logs for every individual who has skated or tended goal in the postseason.

In concert with SAP, the NHL's application software and database partner, the League is now adding to the wealth of statistics that have been on NHL.com for roughly a decade.

NHL.com/stats provides SAP-powered filters to offer fans the ability to cross-reference historic statistics by game-level context such as home, away, game decision and opponent.

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