The line · all 32 teams, all strengths
The queue
Minutes of a 60-minute game each team spends in the neutral zone. The black line is the league average. Red means longer in line than average, green means you got waved through.
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Does the wait cost you?
Each dot is a team: neutral-zone share across, points per game played up. The dashed line is the trend. Red dots are the five longest waits.
Express line closed · 5-on-5 only
Even strength, still waiting
Take away power plays and penalty kills and these ten teams spend the most of their 5-on-5 time in the neutral zone. NHL Edge publishes ten for this board.
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How the line works
Zone time
NHL Edge tracks where the play is for every second of every game and splits it into offensive, neutral and defensive zones. This page ranks the neutral share.
Minutes per 60
The neutral share times 60. It's how many minutes of a regulation game a team spends between the blue lines. Small gaps add up: a minute a night is over 80 minutes a season.
The trend line
A straight best fit through the 32 dots, and the correlation (r) between neutral time and points per game. Early in the season it moves a lot, and it shows a link, not a cause.
Sources
- NHL Edge stats