The NHL Issues a Significant Statement about Vancouver Canucks Stars Quinn Hughes & Kiefer Sherwood
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Quinn Hughes and Kiefer Sherwood led the way for the Vancouver Canucks and the NHL for this statistic during the 2024-25 season.
The Vancouver Canucks' 2024-25 season will be one to forget for fans after the team missed out on the Stanley Cup Playoffs, however there were a handful of bright spots on the roster throughout the year.
Quinn Hughes registered his third straight 75+ point campaign, earning himself a nomination for the Norris Trophy, while forward Kiefer Sherwood broke the NHL record for most hits in a single season.
Quinn Hughes and Kiefer Sherwood led the NHL during 2024-25 season
Now that the regular season is over and we're already into the second round of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, it's interesting to take a look back and see which players led in certain advanced statistics throughout the year.
JFresh, who highlights advanced and underlying statistics in the National Hockey League on social media, shared a couple of posts that showed how well Quinn Hughes and Kiefer Sherwood played this season both on and off the puck.
The category, 'Most Stuff per 60 at 5v5', takes into account a number of different factors for a player:
On-Puck Stuff
- Shots and Passes
- Transition Plays
- O-Zone Puck Recoveries (forwards only)
- D-Zone Puck Touches
- Transition Plays
- O-Zone Puck Recoveries (forwards only)
- D-Zone Puck Touches
Off-Puck Stuff
- Hits
- Forecheck Pressures
- Takeaways
- Blocks
- Penalties Taken
- Penalties Drawn
- Forecheck Pressures
- Takeaways
- Blocks
- Penalties Taken
- Penalties Drawn
For Kiefer Sherwood, he finished first among forwards in the National Hockey League with a total 'stuff' rating of 126.6, 18.3 more than Alex Laferriere of the Los Angeles Kings, who came in second place.
Sherwood has turned out to be a great signing for the Canucks Quinn Hughes played a big role in getting Patrik Allvin to bring him to the club after seeing what he brought to the Nashville Predators during their first round series against Vancouver last spring.
"I was pretty vocal with Patrik (Allvin, the Canuck general manager) about the (Kiefer) Sherwood add. Just playing him in the playoffs against Nashville and seeing his competitiveness and what he brings, you need guys like that on a championship team." Hughes said back in September.
Meanwhile for Vancouver Canucks captain Quinn Hughes, he came in first place among defensemen in the entire National Hockey League with a 93.6 rating (84.9 of which was on-puck stuff), 2.1 higher than Calgary Flames blueliner MacKenzie Weegar.
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