Just goes to show you how important NHL playoff experience really is. The difference for us was Lightning had 1669 playoff games under their roster, vs Leafs who had 606 (before the series started). Almost 3 to 1, (2.754125).
They also had 8 guys with over 100 playoff games experience, including their goalie!
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Correy Perry RW 190
Victor Hedman D 154
Pat Maroon LW 144
Nikita Kucherov RW 136
Alex Killorn LW 134
Steven Stamkos C 117
Ian Cole D 110
Andrei Vesilevsky G 104
The Leafs on the other hand had only 3 guys with more than 50 game experience.
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Calle Jarnnkrok C 75
Ryan O’Rielly C 64
Noel Acciari C 54
William Nylander RW 44
TJ Brodie D 44
Mitchell Marner RW 39
Auston Matthews C 39
Morgan Rielly D 39
With Ilya Samsonov having 8 games playoff experience (before series with Tampa Bay).
When we met Tampa Bay Lightning their average playoff experience divided by their roster was:
Tampa Bay Lightining 75.86 poG/p.
Toronto Maple Leafs 28.86 poG/p.
After the series our playoff exp averaged jumped by almost 6 full games per player.
Toronto Maple Leafs 34.24 poG/p.
Here is how Boston and Florida look playoff Experience wise:
Boston 60.65 poG/p. (Weakness Goalies: Linus Ulmark 8(6), Jeremy Swayman 7(1), in parenthesis playoff games played this year)
Florida 29.34 poG/p. (Goalies: Sergei Bobrovsky 55(6), Alex Lyon 3(3))
So Florida would be nice to face, but their Goalie has almost double the rosters experience. Boston on the other hand is loaded with an experienced squad, but their goaltending is very very inexperienced playoff wise.
Download Excel File with all teams and playoff experience and calculations.