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As the busiest teams in the National Hockey League prepared Wednesday to play their 66th game, the leading scorers had 67 points.

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A densely compacted scoring race was co-led by Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom of Washington, with Jakub Voracek of Philadelphia and John Tavares of the Islanders two points back, three others at 64, and 61 points getting you into a three-way tie for ninth.

The top 10, then, all essentially point-a-game guys.

Evidently, this has become the gold standard of NHL excellence: one point per game by its most exciting players.

Are you excited?

“It’s amazing to see. Probably the winner’s going to have a point a game, which is … I don’t know if we’ve seen that before,” said Vancouver’s Daniel Sedin, the lone player to crack the 100-point mark in 2011, when NHL offence seems to have ground to a halt.