3 – Number of Capitals among the NHL’s top-10 Swedish scorers: Nicklas Backstrom (16 points) and Marcus Johansson and Andre Burakovsky (12 points). Of course, four of the top-10 were Caps draft picks…
A look at the ten top-scoring Swedes so far:
Player | Team | GP | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | PPG | PPP | SHG | SHP | GW | OT | S | S% | |
Filip Forsberg | NSH | C | 16 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 50 | 16 |
Patric Hornqvist | PIT | R | 14 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 59 | 15 |
Henrik Sedin | VAN | C | 17 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 24 |
Daniel Sedin | VAN | L | 17 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 51 | 7.8 |
Nicklas Backstrom | WSH | C | 15 | 4 | 12 | 16 | -3 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 13 |
Henrik Zetterberg | DET | L | 15 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 46 | 8.7 |
Carl Soderberg | BOS | C | 18 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 16 |
Marcus Johansson | WSH | C | 15 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 22 |
Niklas Kronwall | DET | D | 15 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -1 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 14 |
Andre Burakovsky | WSH | L | 15 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 14 |