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Taylor Hall's Shot Ratios Stack Up Against Anyone

Taylor Hall shows up in your arena, and bombards it until there's nothing left.

By Derek Zona
Jonathan Daniel

We all know that The Kingston Cannonball is good at creating his own offense and generating shots, but how does he compare to other NHL players at the same age?

Below is a table that shows games played, shots and shots per game data for all forwards since 1967-68** in their first three seasons who were also under the age of 21, minimum of 150 games played*.

Player GP S S/GP
Alex Ovechkin 163 817 5.01
Wayne Gretzky 239 914 3.82
Dale Hawerchuk 239 892 3.73
Danny Gare 157 577 3.68
Marcel Dionne 155 550 3.55
Mike Gartner 157 554 3.53
Mario Lemieux 215 752 3.5
Ilya Kovalchuk 227 782 3.44
Sidney Crosby 213 701 3.29
Pierre Larouche 220 718 3.26
Jason Arnott 184 594 3.23
Evgeni Malkin 160 514 3.21
Taylor Hall 171 547 3.2
Dennis Maruk 160 501 3.13
Jeff Skinner 188 584 3.11
Sylvain Turgeon 216 671 3.11
Wilf Paiement 213 660 3.1
Steven Stamkos 243 750 3.09
Evander Kane 213 648 3.04
Eric Lindros 172 521 3.03
Jimmy Carson 240 719 3
Marian Gaborik 230 680 2.96
John Tavares 243 715 2.94
Michel Goulet 233 683 2.93
Patrice Bergeron 229 667 2.91
Wendel Clark 174 503 2.89
Patrick Kane 244 706 2.89
Bob Carpenter 240 688 2.87
Jacques Richard 152 435 2.86
Rick Nash 208 593 2.85
Mike Modano 235 660 2.81
Kyle Okposo 154 429 2.79
Gilbert Perreault 154 428 2.78
Phil Kessel 222 615 2.77
Ron Francis 210 577 2.75
Tom Lysiak 154 422 2.74
Joe Sakic 230 627 2.73
Eric Staal 163 443 2.72
Brian Bellows 234 631 2.7
Rick Blight 152 409 2.69
Anze Kopitar 236 628 2.66
Steve Payne 150 398 2.65
Glen Sharpley 159 421 2.65
Luc Robitaille 159 419 2.64
Tyler Seguin 203 534 2.63
Brad Richards 164 430 2.62
Bobby Clarke 153 399 2.61
Barry Pederson 166 429 2.58
Denis Savard 234 603 2.58
Steve Yzerman 211 540 2.56
Brian Propp 159 403 2.53
Trevor Linden 233 586 2.52
Mats Sundin 240 601 2.5

*all data sourced from Hockey Reference, using their February 1 cut-off for birthdates.
**The NHL did not start recording player shots data until 1967-68

Hall is as close to Lemieux as Bergeron is to Hall. He's as close to Gretzky as Seguin is to Hall. Obviously that's somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but Hall's ability to generate offense is amazing and at this stage of his career he's among the best we've ever seen at doing so.

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