It's official, we're desperate
While sitting in the toxic pit of despair otherwise known as the Post-Gazette's sports department on an Saturday night, we were playing around with Hockey-Reference.com. In between doing highly important meaningful tasks such as rounding up the Dodgers-Marlins box score and golf results from the Nationwide Tour, we dug through each team's all-time scoring lists and tried to figure out who the active leading scorer on each NHL team was.
Yeah, we're going through hockey withdrawal.
Anyway, we listed each team, the top active scorer, that player's points with that franchise and where they rank all-time with their respective organization.
For the sake of making things easier, we included Teemu Selanne with the Ducks and Joe Sakic with the Avalanche even though each of those players is considering retirement and are currently unrestricted free agents.
Please keep in mind this list means absolutely nothing. It's simply the product of boredom.
| Team | Player | Points | Overall Ranking |
| Anaheim Ducks | Teemu Selanne | 689 | 1 |
| Atlanta Thrashers | Ilya Kovalchuk | 466 | 1 |
| Boston Bruins | Glen Murray | 389 | 25 |
| Buffalo Sabres | Maxim Afinogenov | 314 | 19 |
| Calgary Flames | Jarome Iginla | 762 | 3 |
| Carolina Hurricanes | Rod Brind'Amour | 403 | 4 |
| Chicago Blackhawks | Patrick Sharp | 120 | 97 |
| Colorado Avalanche | Joe Sakic | 1,629 | 1 |
| Columbus Blue Jackets | Rick Nash | 276 | 2 |
| Dallas Stars | Mike Modano | 1,283 | 1 |
| Detroit Red Wings | Nicklas Lidstrom | 938 | 5 |
| Edmonton Oilers | Shawn Horcoff | 285 | 15 |
| Florida Panthers | Nathan Horton | 193 | 8 |
| Los Angeles Kings | Alexander Frolov | 271 | 19 |
| Minnesota Wild | Marian Gaborik | 414 | 1 |
| Montreal Canadiens | Saku Koivu | 591 | 13 |
| Nashville Predators | David Legwand | 327 | 1 |
| New Jersey Devils | Patrik Elias | 628 | 2 |
| New York Islanders | Trent Hunter | 166 | 45 |
| New York Rangers | Michal Roszival | 108 | 114 |
| Ottawa Senators | Daniel Alfredsson | 847 | 1 |
| Philadelphia Flyers | Simon Gagne | 410 | 16 |
| Phoenix Coyotes | Shane Doan | 550 | 4 |
| Pittsburgh Penguins | Sidney Crosby | 294 | 21 |
| St. Louis Blues | Keith Tkachuk | 346 | 11 |
| San Jose Sharks | Patrick Marleau | 539 | 1 |
| Tampa Bay Lightning | Vincent Lecavalier | 602 | 1 |
| Toronto Maple Leafs | Bryan McCabe | 297 | 34 |
| Vancouver Canucks | Daniel Sedin | 380 | 11 |
| Washington Capitals | Alex Ovechkin | 310 | 18 |
Update: Kudos to the comments who pointed out we made a mistake with the Kings and completely forgot the Blues.
EMPTY NETTER ASSISTS
Penguins
-Former Penguins forward Dan Quinn finished second in the American Century Championship at Lake Tahoe in Nevada with a score of plus-68.
Other players with Penguins connections included Pierre Larouche who finished in fifth place at plus-62, and Mario Lemieux in 23rd place at plus-40
Full results can be found here.
Atlantic Division
-Rangers 2007 first-round draft pick Alexei Cherapanov will remain in Russia for another season.
Southeast Division
-The Thrashers signed former Blackhawks forward Jason Williams.
Central Division
-The daughter of Red Wings forward Kris Draper used the Stanley Cup like a toilet.
-In shocking news, it turns out William "Boots" Del Biaggio didn't exactly have long term plans for the Predators in Nashville.
Northwest Division
-In even more shocking news, Avalanche forward Peter Forsberg is still having problems with his feet.