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Here’s an interesting statistic: Following Thursday’s 3-2 loss to the Washington Capitals, the Canadiens had scored 92 goals this season, tied for the most in the NHL with the Dallas Stars.

P.K. Subban had scored only one of those goals for Montreal.

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Here’s an even more interesting statistic that Arpon Basu of NHL.com picked up on and tweeted about: Subban has been on the ice for 57 of the Canadiens’ 92 goals (62 per cent). No other player in the NHL has been on the ice for as many goals for his team, and heading into Friday’s games there were five teams that had scored 57 goals or less: Pittsburgh (57), Toronto (57), Anaheim (52), Carolina (51) and Philadelphia (49).

“When I get out there, I just try to create and create opportunities for our forwards and just try to move the puck up as quickly as I can,” Subban said after practice Friday in Brossard as the Canadiens prepared to face the Hurricanes Saturday night in Carolina (7 p.m., SN, TVA Sports, TSN Radio 690).