94 Morning Report: April 9th, 2023

Eastern Wild Card Race stays put, Winnipeg defeats Nashville, and McDavid reaches 150 points

Latest stats and analytics updates from games completed as of 4/8/23

Original data sourced from mysportsfeeds.com


Results

Home Away Score Matchup Probability
BUF CAR 4:3 43.1% : 56.9%
DET PIT 1:5 49.1% : 50.9%
DAL VGK 2:1 53.8% : 46.2%
SJS EDM 1:6 27.4% : 72.6%
ARI ANA 5:4 55.7% : 44.3%
CBJ NYR 0:4 32.9% : 67.1%
TOR MTL 7:1 66.9% : 33.1%
OTT TBL 7:4 47.3% : 52.7%
WPJ NSH 2:0 51.0% : 49.0%
WSH FLO 2:4 39.9% : 60.1%
NYI PHI 4:0 62.7% : 37.3%
MIN STL 5:3 59.0% : 41.0%
BOS NJD 2:1 77.3% : 22.7%
SEA CHI 7:3 74.7% : 25.3%
VAN CGY 3:2 50.2% : 49.8%
LAK COL 3:4 48.6% : 51.4%

Highlights from Yesterday

  • The Jets defeat the Predators in a 2-0 shutout victory to stay in the second wild card spot in the west and set the Preds back 3 points
  • Matthew Tkachuk's goal and 2 assists leads the Panthers past the Capitals in Washington to stay in playoff position
  • Sidney Crosby scored twice and added an assist to help the Penguins remain in the playoff hunt in the East (3rd in the wild card race)
    • Sidney Crosby reached 90 points last night (91 total 33 goals/58 assists)
  • Calgary dropped a big game against Vancouver as Elias Pettersson scored his 38th goal and 99th point of the season
    • Calgary is now 1 point with 2 games to play (Winnipeg has played 79)
  • The Islanders shutout the Flyers in New York and sit in the second wild card position in the East
  • Connor McDavid's 3 point night (2 goals/1 assist) vs San Jose secured the 150 point milestone for the Oilers Captain (151 total) in his 80th game this season
Project 94 Ratings Trends this Season for New York Islanders, Florida Panthers, Pittsburgh Penguins
Project 94 Ratings Trends this Season for Winnipeg Jets, Nashville Predators, and Calgary Flames

Who's on Fire?

  • Connor McDavid's historic night extended his point streak to 14 games in a row
    • The Edmonton Oilers have won 7 straight
  • Jordan Eberle is on a 4 game goal streak after scoring in the Kraken's 7-3 win against Chicago
  • 4 Florida Panthers players are on point streaks as they continue a 6 game win streak
    • Aaron Ekblad: 7 games
    • Aleksander Barkov: 6 games
    • Brandon Montour: 6 games
    • Matthew Tkachuk: 5 games

100 Point Watch

Player Team Games Played Goals Assists Points
Elias Pettersson VAN 77 38 61 99
Erik Karlsson SJS 77 23 75 98
Mitch Marner TOR 78 30 68 98
Mikko Rantanen COL 78 52 46 98
Jack Hughes NJD 76 42 54 96
Tage Thompson BUF 75 46 47 93
Sidney Crosby PIT 80 33 58 91
Brayden Point TBL 80 49 42 91

Milestone Watch

Player Team Games Played Goals Assists Points
Auston Matthews TOR 72 39 45 84
John Tavares TOR 78 35 43 78
Bo Horvat NYI 77 38 31 69
Mika Zibanejad NYR 80 39 50 89
Jared McCann SEA 76 39 29 68
Brandon Hagel TBL 79 29 33 62

Check out the full season's Scoring Race


Top 5 Teams in the Power Rankings

Top 5 Teams
Team Project 94 Rating 5 Game Trend 5 Game Win%
BOS 785.302 +14.088 100% 🔥🔥
EDM 717.292 +15.354 100% 🔥🔥
COL 711.923 +18.276 80.0% 🔥
NJD 707.218 -1.217 60.0%
CAR 707.063 -4.306 60.0%

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