The Issue with the Sens Wasn’t the Coaching Joshua Weissbock | December 15, 2014 While haters are going to hate, hate hate, hate, hate, the Ottawa Senators have fired their head coach Paul McLean in a somewhat unsurprising move earlier last week. A poor…
Re-evaluating Open Corsi Joshua Weissbock | December 9, 2014 During the Summer of Analytics, when many of the teams were hiring bloggers, the Hockey Analytics field was hurt with the loss of great minds as well as their removing…
Monte Carlo Predictions: Metro Division Joshua Weissbock | December 7, 2014 In the final portion of reviewing the Monte Carlo results from the four divisions it’s time we focus on the NHL’s favourite: the Metro Division. As a reminder we use…
Monte Carlo Predictions: Atlantic Division Joshua Weissbock | December 4, 2014 In my last two articles I used a Monte Carlo algorithm to make predictions on how the Pacific and Central Division will look at the end of the season. This…
Monte Carlo Predictions: Central Division Joshua Weissbock | December 4, 2014 In my last article I used a Monte Carlo algorithm to try and predict how the standings within the Pacific Division will likely look at the end of the season.…
Monte Carlo Predictions: Pacific Division Joshua Weissbock | December 2, 2014 Monte Carlo algorithms are one of my favourite methods for analyzing hockey. I’ve used them previously for my work on this site when we analyze Ondrej Pavelec. A Monte Carlo…
Is Bo Horvat Good Enough to Stay in the NHL? Joshua Weissbock | November 27, 2014 Much like a child on Christmas morning the Vancouver Canucks’ management and fans are excited to show off Bo Horvat like their new toy. What’s there not to be excited…
Ryan Miller Has Not Been Good and That’s Okay Joshua Weissbock | November 24, 2014 The Vancouver Canuck’s newest netminder, and current starter, Ryan Miller has entered the 2014-2015 season without much negativity coming out of the Vancouver media. He has played in 75% of…
2014 Start of Season Statistical Outliers Joshua Weissbock | November 20, 2014 As teams approach the 20-game mark we are at an interesting point in the season from an analytics point of view. We start to have a solid idea of what…
Is Daniel Alfredsson Likely to be Voted Into the Hockey Hall of Fame? Joshua Weissbock | November 17, 2014 Sean McIndoe of Down Goes Brown recently spent some time looking at if Daniel Alfredsson should be, or if he will likely be, voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame…
The Toronto Maple Leafs Salary Cap Loophole Joshua Weissbock | November 10, 2014 In the cap world of the NHL every team should be looking at every market inefficiency possible to try and maximize the advantage for their team. Being able to exploit…
Is Pavelec’s Recent Success Sustainable? Joshua Weissbock | November 4, 2014 Ondrej Pavelec is a name that makes many Winnipeg Jets’ fans cringe; he’s the starting goaltender despite a large amount of evidence that he performs worse than many backups. Over…
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