Bruins reach halfway point of season

After tonight's game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Bruins have played their 41st game of the season, officially reaching the halfway point of the season for them. I'm going to take a look at the team's numbers and some individual stats.

Through the first 41 games, the Bruins went 22-12-7 which gives them 51 points. They are 9-7-3 at home, 13-5-4 on the road, and 1-5 in shootouts/overtime. The Bruins have 117 goals for (best in the Northeast division) and 93 goals against (NHL best).

Milan Lucic leads the Bruins in goals with 16.

Patrice Bergeron leads the Bruins in assists with 19 and points with 29.

Nathan Horton and Zdeno Chara lead the Bruins in +/- with +15. Marc Savard is a team-worst with -8 in 18 games.

Shawn Thornton leads the Bruins in PIMs with 64. Thornton also leads the team in fighting majors with 8.

Michael Ryder leads the Bruins with 7 power-play goals.

Brad Marchand leads the Bruins with 3 shorthanded goals.

Mark Recchi leads the Bruins with 5 game-winning goals.

Zdeno Chara leads the Bruins in shots with 134.

Milan Lucic leads the Bruins with a 17.4 shooting percentage.

Zdeno Chara leads the Bruins with the most ice time per game at 26:38.

Out of the regular faceoff takers, Patrice Bergeron leads the Bruins with a 54.4 faceoff winning percentage (winning 398 out of 731). David Krejci is at 49.1% (winning 274 out of 558), Tyler Seguin is also at 49.1% (winning 106 out of 216), Marc Savard is at 48.9% (winning 107 out of 219), and Gregory Campbell is at 48.4% (winning 221 out of 457).

In the shootout so far this season, Tyler Seguin is 3 for 6, Blake Wheeler is 1 for 2, Michael Ryder is 1 for 4, Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci are both 0 for 2, and Zdeno Chara/Nathan Horton/Milan Lucic are all 0 for 1.

Goalie stats
Tim Thomas, 18-4-6, 1.84 GAA, .944 save percentage, 5 shutouts
Tuukka Rask, 4-8-1, 2.53 GAA, .927 save percentage, 1 shutout

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