We take a deep dive into the Hamilton Bulldogs in this edition of our weekly by the numbers look at the Ontario Hockey League.

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The number of points the Bulldogs need to secure top spot in the Eastern Conference. With two games to go, Hamilton has 90 points — six more than the Barrie Colts, who also have one game in hand. That means they clinch with a win, an overtime loss, a shootout loss or anything less than a win by secondplace Barrie. The Bulldogs will face either the Mississauga Steelheads, North Bay Battalion or Ottawa 67’s in the first round of the playoffs.

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The number of former Bulldogs contending for the University Cup in Fredericton this weekend. Michael Cramarossa is playing for No. 3 seed McGill, while Stephen Harper and Dawson Carty — who were neighbours growing up in Burlington — are suiting up for seventhseed Acadia. Adam Laishram, who is sidelined with concussion symptoms, is also making the trip to New Brunswick with No. 4 seed St. Francis Xavier.

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The number of times the Bulldogs have won the Leyden Trophy as East Division champions. The team secured the title just under two weeks ago, following a 4-1 win over the Oshawa Generals. Ironically, the trophy is named after longtime Gens manager Matt Leyden, who was holding the reins in the late 1930s and early 1940s when Oshawa won a remarkable seven straight OHL championships and three Memorial Cups. Before the franchise moved to Hamilton in 2015, the Belleville Bulls also took home the Leyden Trophy six times. 1975-76

The last season in which a Hamilton team won an OHL division title. That spring, the Fincups finished first in the Emms Division with a 43-15-8 record before knocking off Kitchener, Toronto and Sudbury in the playoffs. Then, they went on to down Quebec and New Westminster to bring the Memorial Cup back to Hamilton. The only other local club to win Canada’s biggest junior hockey prize was the 1961-62 Red Wings.

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The number of playoff games the Bulldogs have under their collective belts. A year ago, the comparatively inexperienced squad combined for just 78 post-season games, or less than half of this year’s tally. The fact that three of the four players with the most playoff experience — Robert Thomas, with 29 games, Nicolas Mattinen with 19, and Riley Stillman with 16 — were traded to the team this campaign helps account for much of the jump.

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The number of points per game registered by Thomas over the past 10 games — a whopping 80 per cent increase over his first 10 games with the Bulldogs, in which he scored at a point per game pace.

Altogether, the St. Louis Blues first-rounder has racked up four goals and 24 assists since coming to Hamilton from London at the OHL trade deadline in January, and has 24 goals and 50 assists in 48 games this season.

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The number of goals scored by Arthur Kaliyev this season — the most, by a wide margin, among the league’s 16-year-old players. The Bulldogs rookie, who broke the 30-goal barrier against the Oshawa Generals Sunday, is the first player under the age of 17 to score 30 or more goals since Alex Galchenyuk in 2010-11, and just the 25th to pull off the feat in league history. A few games back, Kaliyev also set a new franchise record for scoring by a 16-year-old when he surpassed the mark of 26 set by Daniel Cleary in 1994-95.

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The number of regular-season OHL games accumulated by the team’s three overage players. Ryan Moore, Justin Lemcke and Connor Walters will all hit the ice for the last time — at least before the playoffs — when the campaign wraps up Saturday in Peterborough. The Bulldogs presented the trio with commemorative jerseys before their last regular-season home game.

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The number of goals Brandon Saigeon has tallied on the power play this campaign — the second-most in the league behind Barrie Colts winger Dmitry Sokolov, the reigning OHL player of the week. Saigeon, a Grimsby native, is also tied for second in the OHL in game-winning goals with nine, and is — you guessed it — second among Bulldogs players in goals (35) and points (70).