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What is PDO in hockey?

Add a team’s shooting percentage to its save percentage at 5-on-5 and you get a number that averages about 1.000. For a player, it uses his team’s numbers while he’s on the ice. Well above 1.000 means pucks are going in at one end and staying out at the other more than usual. That rarely lasts, so a team far above it often cools off and one far below often picks up. It’s partly skill, though: elite finishers and goalies can stay above it for a long time.

PDO · Puck luck

Also called
  • PDO
  • SH% + SV%

Example: 1.012 is a little above average; 0.998 a little below.

Counts: 5-on-5 only

PDO leaders

Top 10 so far in the 2026–27 regular season

#Team
1Boston Bruins191.054
2Edmonton Oilers201.037
3Montréal Canadiens191.034
4Minnesota Wild211.031
4Ottawa Senators201.031
4Seattle Kraken171.031
7Colorado Avalanche201.029
8Tampa Bay Lightning191.028
9Carolina Hurricanes201.020
10New York Islanders181.015

Our own numbers, from the NHL’s public play-by-play data. GP counts only games we have shot-by-shot data for.