I would love to learn how to create it myself, or at least learn how to grab the standings from ESPN (or any other site) and apply them somehow, but I think it's a little beyond my comprehension.

Instead, I throw myself on the mercy of this forum. I'd like a NHL Standings widget to put on my blog. Wins, Losses, Overtime/Shootout Losses, Points for, Points against. That would be just fine. Thanks to anyone who takes on this task.

First you'll need some way to fetch the data. XML is the standard but other formats will work fine. You need either a server to pull the data from or a file that you'll update yourself and post on a public server. Then you need to write a Flash widget to render the contents. You may need a designer to draw your widget and a coder to make it work.