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NHL official tendency index

Historical scoring and whistle tendencies across qualified officials. Descriptive associations with league baselines — not predictions. Sample: 41 officials (2021-10-01 – 2026-03-19). See methodology.

Historical dataset, NHL analytics columns show when unavailable.

Who moves the goals?

The 41 officials with 30+ games, ranked by historical associations in their games.

  • Biggest scoring bump

    Mark Shewchyk

    +0.1 G

    He averages 0.1 more combined goals than the league baseline in his games.

  • Highest historical over-rate vs baseline

    Ghislain Hebert

    65.6%

    Line benchmark is 7.3 combined goals; he clears it more often than peers in this sample.

  • Heaviest minors ref

    David Brisebois

    +0.4

    He runs 0.4 minor penalties above average per game.

0 of 41 officials associate with higher scoring. 0 associate with lower totals. Numbers describe past games, not predictions for tonight.

Click column headers to sort. Historical tendencies vs league baseline, descriptive only, not picks.

Over rate uses 7.3 combined goals benchmark.

#OfficialSignalsOT rate
1905+0.1-62.2%1 notable-
21,132+0.1-62.9%1 notable-
3486+0.1-60.1%1 notable-
4969+0.1+0.160.5%1 notable22.7%
5218+0.1-0.161.9%1 notable22.5%
6218+0.1-0.165.6%1 notable16.5%
7508+0.1+0.160.4%1 notable21.9%
8683+0.1+0.061.1%1 notable22.3%
9660+0.1+0.262.9%1 notable23.2%
10938+0.1-62.8%1 notable-
111,206+0.1-62.5%1 notable-
121,179+0.1-62.4%1 notable-
13247+0.1+0.064.0%2 notable25.9%
14438+0.1+0.062.6%1 notable20.3%
15488+0.1+0.165.0%1 notable24.0%
16220+0.0-61.8%1 notable-
17928+0.0-59.7%1 notable-
18479+0.0-58.0%1 notable-
19474+0.0+0.060.8%1 notable23.6%
201,175+0.0+0.062.3%1 notable24.3%
21689+0.0+0.060.4%1 notable25.4%
22230+0.0+0.057.0%1 notable21.3%
23232+0.0-60.8%1 notable-
241,191+0.0+0.061.9%1 notable22.1%
25742+0.0+0.060.8%1 notable22.1%
26256+0.0+0.064.5%1 notable21.1%
27730+0.0+0.060.1%1 notable21.4%
28436+0.0-59.6%1 notable-
29646+0.0-0.160.7%1 notable24.3%
30923+0.0-0.161.8%1 notable24.2%
311,663+0.0-61.2%1 notable-
32460+0.0-61.1%1 notable-
33229+0.0-59.0%1 notable-
341,169+0.0-59.1%1 notable-
35511+0.0-61.6%1 notable-
36254+0.0-61.8%1 notable-
37481+0.0+0.054.7%21.0%
38693+0.0-59.7%1 notable-
39469+0.0-0.161.8%1 notable26.7%
40247-0.1+0.156.3%1 notable22.7%
41438-0.1+0.059.6%1 notable22.4%

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