Scorigami

SCORIGAMI: Calgary Flames 13, San Jose Sharks 1 is the first 13-1 game in NHL history

Final · February 10, 1993

NHL got a brand-new final score on February 10, 1993. Calgary Flames beat San Jose Sharks 13-1, and in every NHL game since 1917, no game had ever ended that way before.

Where 13-1 sits among nearby NHL scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 11-9, Toronto Maple Leafs over Edmonton Oilers on January 8, 1986, 7 years and 1 month earlier. This is NHL's 1st new final score of the 1992 season, and the grid now holds 76 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 14-1 had happened 1 time and 13-2 had happened 1 time. It sits in the busy heart of the grid, proof that even an ordinary-looking score can go a league's whole history without happening.

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