Facts and figures: Lots of ice time kept Karlsson warm at NHL100 Classic

They say the best way to stay warm when it's cold outside is to keep moving. Ottawa Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson followed that advice at the 2017 Scotiabank NHL100 Classic on Saturday.
Karlsson was on the ice for 32:55 of
the Senators' 3-0 victory against the Montreal Canadiens
at Lansdowne Park. That's the most ice time by any player in a 60-minute game this season, and the third most in any game. Los Angeles Kings defenseman Drew Doughty played 35:31 against the Anaheim Ducks in
a 4-3 overtime win on Nov. 7
and 33:21 in
a 2-1 shootout win against the Ducks on Nov. 25
.

Karlsson's previous single-game high for ice time this season was 29:30 against the Kings in a
3-2 shootout loss on Oct. 24
(Doughty played 27:06). Karlsson played 29:26 in the Senators' game before the NHL100 Classic, a
3-2 win against the New York Rangers
on Wednesday.
Doughty's 31:40 of ice time
against the Nashville Predators on Nov. 4
had been the most by any player in a game decided in 60 minutes until Karlsson's performance against Montreal.

Bouncing back

The Philadelphia Flyers appeared to be in big trouble when they lost 10 consecutive games from Nov. 11 through Dec. 2. Their 0-5-5 streak included four overtime losses in which the Flyers couldn't hold two-goal leads.
But the Flyers have flipped the script the past two weeks, going 3-0-0 on a trip through Western Canada and 3-0-0 at home, including
a 2-1 overtime win against the Dallas Stars
on Saturday. They are the third team in NHL history to follow a 10-game winless streak with a winning streak of six or more games. The 2005-06 San Jose Sharks also went 6-0-0 after losing 10 in a row, and the Flyers can tie the NHL mark held by the 1966-67 Toronto Maple Leafs with a win at home Monday against the Kings (7 p.m. ET; NHLN, NBCSP, FS-W, NHL.TV). The '66-67 Maple Leafs went 7-0-0 from Feb. 12-26 after an 0-10-1 stretch from Jan. 15-Feb. 11.

Big Apple bummer

The Kings have to be delighted to be in Philadelphia after they lost three games in the New York area this week. The Kings, who came East on an eight-game winning streak, managed one point in three games against the New Jersey Devils (
5-1 loss
), New York Rangers (
4-2 loss
) and New York Islanders (
4-3 overtime loss
).
It's the fifth straight season the Kings have played the three New York City-area teams in consecutive games on the same road trip, and the 10th time overall. They won all three games during trips in November 2013 and March 2015, but were 1-2-0 in each of the past two seasons before failing to win a game this time. The only other time they were winless in a three-game swing through New York was October 1986, when they were 0-3-0 (a 5-4 overtime loss to the Rangers wasn't worth a point under the rules at the time).

The Dallas Stars also made their tour of the New York area last week, but had a lot more success. They defeated the Rangers
2-1 in a shootout
and won
5-2 against the Islanders
, but hopes of the first sweep in their history were dashed when they lost
5-2 at New Jersey on Friday
.
The Anaheim Ducks do their swing through the New York area this week. The Ducks went 1-1-1 in December 2015, the last time they played all three teams consecutively on the same trip.

Quick-Lee

The top two goal-scorers in the NHL are, not surprisingly, Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals (who's had 50 or more goal seven times) and Nikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning (second in the NHL last season with 40). Each has 23. But the NHL's other 20-goal scorer, Anders Lee of the New York Islanders, has flown under the radar. Lee became the third player in the NHL to get 20 goals this season when he scored late in the third period of the Islanders' overtime win against the Kings. He's one ahead of linemate John Tavares, who's fourth in the League in goals; no other team has two players with more than 15 goals.
If Tavares can score a goal in the Islanders' three games this week, he and Lee will become the first Islanders teammates to reach 20 before Christmas since Mike Bossy and Bryan Trottier did it in in 1977-78, according to Eric Hornick, the statistician on Islanders telecasts.