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Sportsnet's hockey team was annoyed. Numbers were slowly seeping into their world, numbers they didn't understand, and those numbers showed that the beloved pugilistic aspects of their game were meaningless. So the old boys at set out to show meaning in the things they loved.
They created the Sportsnet grit metric (What is Grit?) to explain which NHL teams are the grittiest. According to metric, Grit is comprised of four stats: Penalty Minutes, Fights, Hits, and Blocked Shots. I combined the four into a single metric, weighted equally, and ranked the NHL by Sportsnet's grit metric below:
| Team | Points | GRIT Rank |
| Toronto Maple Leafs | 84 | 1 |
| Philadelphia Flyers | 94 | 2 |
| Montréal Canadiens | 100 | 3 |
| New York Islanders | 79 | 4 |
| Winnipeg Jets | 84 | 5 |
| Anaheim Ducks | 116 | 6 |
| Vancouver Canucks | 83 | 7 |
| Columbus Blue Jackets | 93 | 8 |
| Ottawa Senators | 88 | 9 |
| Buffalo Sabres | 52 | 10 |
| Edmonton Oilers | 67 | 11 |
| Washington Capitals | 90 | 12 |
| Boston Bruins | 117 | 13 |
| St. Louis Blues | 111 | 13 |
| Calgary Flames | 77 | 15 |
| Colorado Avalanche | 112 | 15 |
| Pittsburgh Penguins | 109 | 17 |
| Los Angeles Kings | 100 | 18 |
| Nashville Predators | 88 | 19 |
| Phoenix Coyotes | 89 | 20 |
| San Jose Sharks | 111 | 21 |
| Dallas Stars | 91 | 21 |
| Florida Panthers | 66 | 23 |
| Tampa Bay Lightning | 101 | 24 |
| New York Rangers | 96 | 24 |
| Minnesota Wild | 98 | 26 |
| Carolina Hurricanes | 83 | 27 |
| Detroit Red Wings | 93 | 28 |
| Chicago Blackhawks | 107 | 29 |
| New Jersey Devils | 88 | 30 |
When I first checked in on the metric, the R^2 value of grit score to points was .068. By the end of the season, it increased to .142, but still low enough to be insignificant.