from the CP at Canoe,

- The goalie with the most shutouts this season and most since the start of the 2014-15 season is not Carey Price, but the Minnesota Wild’s Devan Dubnyk. The former first round pick of the Edmonton Oilers has a league-leading four shutouts this year and 15 over the past two-plus seasons, a mark equalled only by the Penguins’ Marc-Andre Fleury.

Only Price, meanwhile, has a better even-strength save percentage this season than Dubnyk’s .956 mark for Minnesota (minimum 10 starts).

It was less than two years ago that the Oilers traded the Regina native to Nashville. In a span of almost one year exactly he bounced from the Predators to the Canadiens to the Coyotes before settling in with the Wild, where he inked a six-year deal worth US$26 million in the summer of 2015.

- Arguably the NHL’s most effective line a quarter of the way through the 2016-17 season is Boston’s trio of Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron, and David Pastrnak. The unit boasts a ridiculous 66-per-cent puck possession mark in almost 160 minutes together at even-strength, combining for 16 goals and 31 points over that time.

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