Home, sweet home.
Not since Jan. 27 have the Vancouver Canucks played a home game – a stretch of, frankly, too many games. The long road to ruin was anything but as the Canucks compiled an 8-5-1 record to put themselves in a position to finish first in the Northwest Division.
Going into this NHL record 14-game trip, the numbers were pretty mind-numbing.
Coming out of it, they're just as absurd.
14 – Consecutive games on the road to accommodate the 2010 Winter Olympics
8 – Games in 18 days prior to the Games
6 – Games in nine days post-Olympics
42 – Days away from General Motors Place
13 – North American cities visited (Columbus twice)
3 – Arenas visited named after banks
2 – Arenas visited named after airlines
3 – Time zones visited (9 East, 3 Central, 2 Mountain)
-15.8 – Coldest city (in degrees Celsius) visited (Ottawa)
+15.5 – Warmest city (in degrees Celsius) visited (Phoenix)
20,737 – Total kilometers traveled (11,608 first half, 9,129 second half)
30 hours, 17 minutes – Total flight time (16:35 first half, 13:42 second half)
7 – Times Darcy Hordichuk sang, “This is the trip that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends…”
160 – Kilometers driven during trip (Montreal to Ottawa; about 100 miles)
3,343 – Longest single stretch, in kilometers (Vancouver to Toronto; about 2,075 miles)
160 – Shortest single stretch, in kilometers (Montreal to Ottawa)
8-6 – Score between Ryan Kesler and Alex Burrows at license plate bingo
10-11-1 – Pre-trip road record
28 – Points up for grabs
17 – Points earned
8-5-1 – Record on the road trip
18-16-2 – Post-trip road record
41-23-3 – Vancouver's current record, its best-ever through 67 games
6 – Comeback wins
2 – "Got a lead and held it" wins
7 – Number of game-winning goal scorers (Jannik Hansen had two)
5 – Times won the opening face off and won the game
4 – Times lost the opening draw and lost the game
10 – Power play goals (on 56 attempts)
13 – Power-play goals against (on 60 opposing chances)
47 – Most shots for (vs. Montreal)
43 – Most shots allowed (vs. Boston)
10 – Times outshot opposition.
1 – Whistle mistaken for a puck (Andrew Alberts vs. Phoenix).
22,235 – Highest attendance (Chicago)
12,861 – Lowest attendance (Colorado)
124 – Combined points (goals and assists) amassed by the Canucks
46 – Goals
78 – Assists
21 – Combined plus/minus rating
16 – Points by Daniel Sedin, the most of any player
15 – Points in 13 games by Ryan Kesler, the most evenly distributed total
6 – Career-highs reached on the trip
3 – Career-highs for Alex Burrows (goals, assists and points)
2 – Career-highs for Mikael Samuelsson (goals and points)
1 – Career-high for Henrik Sedin (points)
1 - Career-high for Aaron Rome (assists)
1 – Career-high for Ryan Kesler (points)
1 – Career-high for Jannik Hansen (goals)
1 – Player who became a dad during the trip (Aaron Rome)
0 – Times Daniel Sedin pretended to be twin brother Henrik or vice versa
2,520 – Facebook status updates, in millions, by users since the Canucks left
18,810 – Rabid fans who'll be waiting to greet the Canucks in their first home game back on March 13