FACTS + FIGURES

Attendance tallies, milestone scorers and a massive mound of food all make an appearance in our weekly by-the-numbers look at the Ontario Hockey League.

19

The number of OHL players competing at the world junior championship in Buffalo, including eight Canadians, three Slovakians, three Russians, two Americans, one Swede, one Swiss and one Belarusian. Only one nation — Denmark — has neither a current nor former OHLer on its roster.

5,878

The average per-game attendance on the opening day of the tournament. On Tuesday, 7,207 people were in the stands when the U.S. shut out Switzerland and 9,552 to see Canada down Finland. When Sweden beat Belarus, 4,998 people were watching — nearly three times the 1,754 on hand when the Czech Republic upset Russia.

11,167

The number of people who took in last week’s outdoor game in Ottawa — the CHL’s first-ever interleague open-air contest. Mitchell Balmas led the way with a hat trick as the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s Gatineau Olympiques dropped the host 67’s 4-1 in the historic tilt at TD Place Stadium.

47,980

The weight, in pounds, of food raised by the Barrie Colts and their partners this holiday season. The club worked with 17 minor hockey teams to collect non-perishables for the Barrie Food Bank as part of an annual program dubbed Coach4Food.

20

The number of straight wins registered by the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds heading into Thursday’s game against Saginaw. The franchise record-setting streak started on Oct. 28 when the Greyhounds shut out Flint 7-0. They’ve outscored their opponents a whopping 95 to 42 since.

3

The number of other teams in OHL history to rack up 20 consecutive wins. The London Knights accomplished the feat in 2013, preceded by the Colts in 2010. And the Kitchener Rangers won 25 in a row in 1984 — one more than London and three more than Barrie — to set the all-time record.

7

The number of game-winning goals scored by Greyhounds forward Boris Katchouk this season — an OHL high. Hamilton’s Marian

Studenic, Guelph’s Cedric Ralph and London’s Evan Bouchard are next in line with five apiece. Katchouk, a 19-year-old Tampa Bay Lightning prospect, also leads the league with four short-handed markers, and his plus-32 rating is second only to teammate Morgan Frost. The number of players who have hit the century mark this season. Peterborough’s Nikita Korostelev scored his 100th OHL goal on Nov. 4, followed by Erie’s Taylor Raddysh on Nov. 25 and Kitchener’s Adam Mascherin on Dec. 5. Barrie’s Aaron Luchuk and Sudbury’s Dmitry Sokolov are also getting close to the milestone — they both had 96 career goals heading into the holiday break. The number of goals Luchuk has scored this campaign alone. The undrafted Colts centre, whose tally tops the OHL, also scored with the Ottawa Senators this week. The NHL club signed the former Windsor Spitfire and Memorial Cup champ to a three-year entry-level deal on Boxing Day. The number of goals Luchuk’s teammate Andrei Svechnikov has registered since returning to the Colts this month. The Russian-born forward has scored at more than a point-per-game pace after being sidelined with a hand injury for all of November. A top prospect for next summer’s NHL draft, Svechnikov is also tied for fifth in rookie scoring despite missing 17 games.