Hawthorn destroyed St Kilda by a record 145 points, but lost key players to injury at the MCG.
HAWTHORN is the most powerful attacking force in the game since 2000 — an offensive anomaly in a season plagued by record low scores.
As revealed last week, scores are at their lowest levels since 1968, but the defensive obsession has failed to derail the Hawks juggernaut.
After seven rounds Hawthorn averages 127.7 points a game — the highest points-for figure since the Bombers freewheeled to a premiership 14 years ago.
It is 12.7 points a week more than the next best, Port Adelaide, and a staggering 33.4 points more than third ranked Geelong.
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Hawthorn's goal splurge defies some predictions that the club would struggle to replicate its offensive prowess after the shock departure of Lance Franklin.
But Alastair Clarkson, who helped wean his side off Buddy dependence last year, now has the Hawks sharing the scoring load more than any rival.
Hawthorn skipper Luke Hodge said his goalkicking colleagues prided themselves on a share and care philosophy.
"I guess when you've got a forward line that is sharing the ball as they are, I think they have been as selfless as I've seen for a long time," Hodge said.
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"That's the way our forward line has probably gone towards after 2011/12 and previously before that. Before that we probably focused too much on Buddy and Roughy (Jarryd Roughead).
"I think Roughy kicked four (at the weekend), but he set up three or four."
Franklin's 580 goals in nine seasons in brown and gold made him one of the game's most exhilarating goalkicking talents. He remains the last player to kick 100 goals in a season, booting 113 in 20080 to win the Coleman Medal.
But in his absence the Hawks are averaging more than 10 different goalkickers a match. They have four players - Luke Breust, Jack Gunston and Jarryd Roughead - in the top five spots of the Coleman Medal table.
In Saturday's mauling of St Kilda the Hawks had four players kick four goals - the first time a side has managed that feat since Fremantle against second-last Carlton back in 2007.
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