Playoff Beasts

Some players turn into someone else in the playoffs. Playoff Beasts ranks every NHL player by how much their career playoff scoring beats — or trails — their career regular-season scoring. A player at 125% scores a quarter more per game once the real games start; a player at 70% cools off when it counts.

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A warning about basic statistics: Beware small sample sizes! Or you might wind up like Leafs fans with Mitch Marner. A great regular-season player can look like a playoff bust over a handful of spring games. We require a real playoff résumé before anyone makes this board (), but a percentage is still a percentage. Argue accordingly.

Beasts rise in the playoffs →

Busts fade when it counts →

Find any player on the beast↔bust scale

How it's measured. For every player we sum their NHL regular-season games and points (career) and their NHL Stanley Cup playoff games and points (career), straight from the NHL's public API. The Playoff Beasts rating = (playoff points ÷ playoff games) ÷ (regular points ÷ regular games), × 100. Nothing estimated — use the box above to find where any qualified player lands on the scale.