Cliché Check

Playoff hockey is about hits and physicality

More hits do not mean more wins. The data covers the regular season; playoff hit data is too sparse.

Data through 2025/26

Myth

SHL Data through 2025/26 · SHL

More hits → won game

50.5%

Coin flip

50%

What the data says

SHL 2022/23–2025/26 regular season, 1,297 games: the team with more hits won 50.5%.
Correlation between hits per game and points per game: −0.16. Top-six teams averaged 25.4 hits per game, the bottom four 26.0.

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