Filipovic's Four Stats: Brady Tkachuk, Mark Stone, Bounce-Back Szn, Johnny Gaudreau, and David Pastrnak

We’re going to run a recurring feature this season, in which we identify five trends or stats, and dig deeper into both why they’re significant, and why you should ultimately care about them.

Sometimes we’ll use this platform to highlight how well a player or team is playing, and the impact their play is having. Other times, we’ll use it to pose questions we’re interested in answering. It can be an ongoing trend that we need more data on, or a surprising performance that we don’t have a proper explanation for at the moment.

We're often too quick to jump at the opportunity to tell you everything we know, but sometimes asking questions about the things we don’t can be just as important. Regardless of where it ultimately takes us, the main objective is to have some fun with data points while sq