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The Elite League's regular season has come to an end for the Belfast Giants, and with the play-offs on the horizon, it's time to review the stats.

These stats do not include the four Challenge Cup Games but do include the stats for all league games played by Peter Campbell and Shane Johnson for other teams.

Campbell actually finished with 91 points in league action - including points scored while playing with Basingstoke - which put him second in the Elite League scoring stats behind Coventry's Adam Calder.

Ed Courtenay was second overall in the assists category, with 57, just behind Coventry's Dan Carlson and Courtenay also led the league in short handed goals with five.

Defence

Despite playing a handful of games on defence, Mark Dutiaume finished the league campaign with 55 points, rounding out the top three scorers for the Giants. Only Campbell, Courtenay and Dutiaume managed to average over a point per game this season.

Stevie Lyle picked up his 30th win of his Giants career on the last game of the regular season. He finished a brilliant year as a Giant with a save percentage of 90.8 per cent and a goals against average of 2.51. This year's Giant MVP, Players' Player of the Year and Coach's Player of the Year was a standout with the Giants since the day he arrived in October.

Captain George Awada finished with 20 goals in league action, the fourth consecutive year he has done so, while line-mate Shaun Sutter scored 29 goals in only 47 games in his first season as a Giant including a five-goal performance against Edinburgh in early December.

Leigh Jamieson had his most productive year as a Giant scoring 10 goals in league action. In an injury-riddled season for the Giants, Jamieson was one of only two Giants - Awada was the other - that played in all 54 league games this year.

The Giants finished the 2007/08 campaign with the second best powerplay in the league behind the Coventry Blaze with a conversion rate of 22.7 per cent although they received the second fewest man advantage opportunities with 233.

They actually scored more powerplay goals on the road (30) than at home (23). The penalty kill was good enough for third best in the league with a kill rate of 85.5 per cent, just behind Nottingham (89.1 per cent) and Coventry (87.3 per cent).

Streak

For the first time ever, the Belfast Giants had more wins on the road than on home ice and they won 17 games on the road and only managed to win 16 of their 27 home games, the worst home record of their eight-year history.

Of course there were more than a few records broken this season. Awada became the all-time leading goal scorer - passing Jason Ruff's 101 goals along the way - Shane Johnson played his 350th game and scored his 150th point as a Giant, and Jamieson and Mark Morrison moved into third and fourth place on the all-time games played list for the Giants behind Todd Kelman and Johnson.

Then there was the streak. An incredible 16 game winning streak starting December 16th with a 2-0 shut out of the Coventry Blaze and ending against the same team seven weeks later with a defeat that ended the Giants hopes of catching the Blaze for the league title.

Along the way, the Giants scored a massive 71 goals and rocketed to the top of the Elite League standings. The Giants are the only team in league history to occupy every single spot in the standings, spending time in every place in the league from 10th to first, throughout the Elite League season.