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2025-26 Hockey Year in Review

Taking a look back at this year's most viewed player and team pages on Hockey Reference.

First Team All-Page Views

The most-viewed NHL player pages at each position this season.
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Alex Ovechkin
Left Wing

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Sidney Crosby
Center

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Patrick Kane
Right Wing

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Matthew Schaefer Defense

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Quinn Hughes
Defense

Connor Hellebuyck

Connor Hellebuyck Goalie

Most Viewed Player Page on a Single Day

Team USA's thrilling Gold Medal win clearly had a big impact, accounting for two of the top three most viewed player pages on a single day
1.
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Trevor Zegras | June 23, 2025
Zegras is traded to the Flyers.

2.
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Jack Hughes  | Feb. 22, 2026
Hughes scores the OT goal to win the gold medal for USA.

3.
Connor Hellebuyck

Connor Hellebuyck | Feb. 22, 2026
Hellebuyck saves 41 of 42 shots to help the USA win the gold medal.

Top Ten Most Viewed Teams

While it looks a little different than the league standings, here's how the each of the NHL teams ranked in page views.
1.
MTL-2025
2.
BUF-2022
3.
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4.
BOS-2025
5.
PHI-2022
6.
PIT-2025
7.
TOR-2025
8.
EDM-2025
9.
DET-2025
10.
NYR-2025

Top 10 Player Page Views

The NHL players with the most-viewed player pages this season.
1.
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Sidney Crosby
2.
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Alex Ovechkin
3.
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Connor McDavid
4.
Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky
5.
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Nathan MacKinnon
6.
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Auston Matthews
7.
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Patrick Kane
8.
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Connor Bedard
9.
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Macklin Celebrini
10.
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Quinn Hughes

Top Player Page Views By Month

From last offseason, through this season's Stanley Cup Finals, here's which players had the most page views each month.
July 2025
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Nikolaj Ehlers
Aug. 2025
Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky
Sept. 2025
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Kirill Kaprizov
Oct. 2025
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Sidney Crosby
Nov. 2025
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Alex Ovechkin
Dec. 2025
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Sidney Crosby
Jan. 2026
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Sidney Crosby
Feb. 2026
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Jack Hughes
Mar. 2026
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Alex Ovechkin
Apr. 2026
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Sidney Crosby
May 2026
Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky
June 2026
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Jordan Staal

Most Viewed Player Pages

The most-viewed hockey player pages by state/province
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Most Viewed Team Pages

The most-viewed hockey team pages by state/province
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Most Viewed Team & Player Pages Across All Sports

The most-viewed players and teams across all of our Reference sites!
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