Back to Article | Hockey Prospectus Home

September 28, 2011
NHL Preview
Top 10 Projected Goal Scorers

by Jonathan Willis

Displaying pretext

Last season saw some remarkable ups and downs among the NHL goal-scoring leaders. Corey Perry, a known 30-goal scorer, nearly doubled his output year-over-year to lead the pack, while the Canucks' Ryan Kesler and Daniel Sedin also took the opportunity to blow past their established goal-scoring levels and finish in the top five. Still more remarkably, Michael Grabner went from a waiver-wire pickup to tie for eighth overall in the NHL's goal-scoring race.

Meanwhile, familiar names like Alex Ovechkin and Ilya Kovalchuk suffered through substandard seasons, finishing well back of the pack; Ovechkin put just 32 pucks in the net in 2010-11 while Kovalchuk fell outside the top-20 scorers with a 31-goal campaign.

The real question, though, is not "Who surprised last season?" but rather "Who will lead the way in 2011-12?"

Hockey Prospectus' exclusive VUKOTA projection system attempts to answer that latter question, providing the top 10 projected goal-scorers for the coming season.

The rest of this article is restricted to Hockey Prospectus Subscribers. Not a subscriber? Click here for more information on Hockey Prospectus subscriptions or use the buttons to the right to subscribe and get access to the best hockey content on the web.

Sign Up Today One year subscription $19.98 Get instant access to everything at Basketball Prospectus for only $19.98 A Prospectus Username is required to order hockey products. (basic subscription is free) Click here and use the blue login bar to log in, or Click here to get yours now.

0 comments have been left for this article.