Professional sports in the 21st-century lives and breathes on stats. Baseball is the king of stats as decisions by teams are made because of it.
Hockey also depends on stats to help make decisions which even now includes an analytical department for many teams. They will study Corsi and Fenwick with expected goals for other stats that have made the news.
One interesting stat shows the most common Ex teams of Stanley Cup players.
This shows that certain teams had numerous players that could compete in the playoffs and the Stanley Cup finals but unfortunately they could not do it together on the same team. The Buffalo Sabres lead the pack with seven NHL players and the Philadelphia Flyers rank fourth with five.
The Stanley Cup finals will begin on Saturday, June 3rd where the Vegas Golden Knights will play host to the Florida Panthers. Game time will be at 8:00 PM Eastern.