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Very minimally. A winning preseason historically correlates to about two regular-season wins. Here's the best one: Stanley Cup teams have a terrible exhibition track record. So do the Stanley Cup runner-ups.
Every NHL team, 2010-11 through 2025-26: team-seasons. Champions in red, runners-up in gold. Hover any dot.
The same question for skaters' scoring pace — where the preseason turns out to mean a great deal more.
trendline.hockey/preseasonplayers →Five-season arcs for all 32 clubs — points, goals for and against, zone time, faceoffs, and who's carrying them.
trendline.hockey/#teams →Who shows up when it counts — regular season vs. playoff production, era-adjusted.
trendline.hockey/bloomers →Ovechkin vs. Richard, Hughes vs. Hutson. Any two players or teams, any era, share the chart.
trendline.hockey/compare →The steals and the busts of every recent draft, ranked by what they've done since.
trendline.hockey/draft →A project to build the funnest possible hockey stats site — stats the way fans want them: interactive, packed with visuals, and filled with context so that the numbers make sense.
It has dashboards for every NHL team and player. Compare anyone, or any team, against their recent past, or against their peers; find trends; visualize them. Who's rising this year? Who's dropping? Whose shot got faster? Who slowed down? Who shows up in the playoffs? Who were the steals in recent drafts — and the busts? How does Alex Ovechkin compare to Rocket Richard? Quinn Hughes to Lane Hutson? Are the Sharks getting better in the faceoff circle; spending more time in the offensive zone; scoring more goals? Find the answers at trendline.hockey — and build charts with them that you can share on social media.
An independent project — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NHL or any team. All stats are drawn from the NHL's public data feeds.
It's built and maintained by Alex Panetta, a 28-year journalist now getting a master's in AI Management during a career sabbatical. He's been building apps as a hobby and for school projects, like Wandering Well, a hidden-gems travel site and app; trendline.football; the Daily AI Digest, an automated newsletter on AI developments for non-technical professionals; and several workflow-related tools. Reach out to discuss projects with him on LinkedIn.
Everything is fetched from the NHL's public API by an automated pipeline — no estimates, no hand-entered stats. Goal totals reconcile to public NHL accounting. Status paragraphs are generated from fixed rules applied to the data, so the words can never outrun the numbers.
This page: team-seasons, every preseason game re-tallied from the NHL's own game logs and every regular-season record taken from the final standings of that season. The full table is above; the raw data and the scripts that built it are open.
The Trend Line also speaks MCP — add https://trendline.hockey/mcp to Claude or any MCP client and ask it hockey questions in plain language, answered from these numbers and cited back to the site. Details in llms.txt.