from Dave Hodge of TSN,

Thumbs down to a lack of scoring in the NHL. You've heard that before, but here's some evidence of how that manifests itself.

I took note of the 26 NHL games that were played on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. The number of games that saw both teams score three or more goals was zero. Not a 4-3 game in the bunch. In 26 straight games, scoring a third goal meant victory. In 14 of the 26 games, the losing team scored one goal, or didn't score at all. The highest goal total for a winning team was five, and that was done twice. Both times, the fifth goal was scored into an empty net.

read on plus a 'thumbs up' to Nick Lidstrom...