{"id":474088,"date":"2026-02-12T01:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474088\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T01:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:54:08","slug":"nhl-edge-stats-behind-slafkovskys-breakout-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474088\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL EDGE stats behind Slafkovsk\u00fd&#8217;s breakout year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHL.com&#8217;s fantasy staff continues to cover the latest trends and storylines in the League through the lens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL EDGE<\/a> puck and player tracker stats. Today, we look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/juraj-slafkovsk%C3%BD-8483515\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juraj Slafkovsk\u00fd<\/a>\u2019s strong advanced stats in the NHL this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/juraj-slafkovsk%C3%BD-8483515\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juraj Slafkovsk\u00fd<\/a> had a dominant performance in Slovakia&#8217;s upset win against Finland in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, carrying over the momentum from his breakout season with the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old had three points (two goals, one assist), including a power-play goal, and four shots on goal against Finland and has now scored nine goals in eight career games for Slovakia at the Olympics. Slafkovsk\u00fd, selected by Montreal with the No. 1 pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, has already reached NHL career highs in goals (21), power-play goals (10) and power-play points (17) in 57 games for the Canadiens this season.<\/p>\n<p>Slafkovsk\u00fd is the only NHL player with at least 20 goals, 100 shots on goal (117), 80 hits (83) and 40 blocks (53) this season. He scored seven goals in seven games for Slovakia to lead the entire 2022 Olympics in Beijing and was also tied for the most points (seven) in that tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL.com&#8217;s fantasy staff continues to cover the latest trends and storylines in the League through the lens of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-474088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}