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Habs working on second 20K

Canadiens have scored 20,000 regular season goals.

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Habs working on second 20K

POSTED: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 6:25 PM

Bob Vetrone Jr.

The Montreal Canadiens enter play Thursday night having scored exactly 20,000 regular season goals in their history, tops among the NHL's Original Six clubs. The Flyers and Penguins, who face each other Thursday night, and Nos. 1 and 2 among the six clubs that joined the league for the 1967 expansion.

Here are the all-time regular season goal totals for those 12 franchises (*defunct; includes Cleveland Barons):

THE ORIGINAL SIX		1967 EXPANSION SIX
Team	Goals	Team	Goals
Canadiens	20,000	Flyers	11,851
Bruins	19,169	Penguins	11,828
Maple Leafs	18,925	Kings	11,366
Red Wings	18,448	Blues	10,940
Rangers	18,135	North Stars/Stars	10,874
Blackhawks	17,613	*Golden Seals	2,296

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:15 PM, 03/07/2013

Are you sure about that? I have them at 20,003. You better add them up again.

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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Boop – who goes by Bob Vetrone Jr. when he is undercover or paying bills – has been at the Daily News since 1982, after working for five years at the Philadelphia Bulletin up to its closing. Along with helping to build the sports scoreboards most nights, he has had great input into the papers’ special sports pullouts – March Madness, Broad Street Run, Record Breakers, Greatest Moments – as well as its day-to-day, award-winning event coverage.

A 1980 graduate of North Catholic, he took some evening college courses. Those lasted right up until the first conflict with a Big 5 doubleheader.

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He has been immersed in sports statistics since the early 70s, when his father (long-time sports writer, broadcaster and the Daily News’ Buck The Bartender), would take him into the Bulletin newsroom overnight in the summer and let him update the Phillies statistics in a little, black spiral notebook. But things have changed tremendously in the decades since … He now uses a big, black spiral notebook. Email him at boopstats@phillynews.com.

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