Matt Wilson
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Matt Wilson covers the OHL for The Hockey Writers and has been following the league for 15-plus years. He holds a dual degree in English and mathematics and endeavours to take a stats-based, data-driven approach to hockey analysis.
Author's Posts
What Does an OHL Contender Look Like?
October 10th, 2017 Last month, I picked a fight with a couple Kitchener Rangers fans, who were bemoaning what they said was their team’s mediocre play over the past few seasons. “We haven’t contended for years!” one of the fans lamented. “What about the 2015-16 season?” I asked. “That team put up 90-plus points and was top-10 in the CHL...
OHL Should Crack Down on Two-Part Trades
September 11th, 2017 Last month, the Windsor Spitfires finalized a trade that was big in more ways than one, shipping behemoth defenceman Logan Stanley to the Kitchener Rangers for a parcel of distant draft picks. Stanley is a first-round NHL pick, 18th overall by the Winnipeg Jets in 2016, and there’s a possibility that he sticks with the Jets this...
OHL Team Anagrams (Part 2) – Amalgam Art Shone!
July 23rd, 2017 This is the second in a two-part series of articles in which I've attempted to devise an appropriate anagram—a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters in another, such as DIRTY ROOM from DORMITORY—for each team in the OHL. Yesterday’s article looked at the Eastern Conference teams; today I’ll tackle the...
OHL Team Anagrams (Part 1) - Smart Homage, Alan!
July 22nd, 2017 With a trade freeze in place, the OHL Priority Selection and the CHL Import Draft complete, and the Memorial Cup a distant memory, there’s been little to talk about in OHL circles over the past few weeks. To stave off those July no-hockey doldrums, I decided to try my hand at making OHL anagrams. An anagram is a word, phrase, or...
Is the OHL Schedule Fair?
June 9th, 2017 The 2017-18 OHL Schedule was revealed this week. Like the NHL, the OHL has an unbalanced schedule. Most teams play their division rivals six times, their cross-conference rivals four times, and their inter-conference foes two times. Four extra games are doled out to account for other rivalries, such as Sault Ste....
OHL's Western Conference Dominating Eastern Conference
June 6th, 2017 When the Erie Otters dusted off the Mississauga Steelheads in five games to win their second OHL title, no one was surprised. In fact, some expressed surprise that the series was as close as it was, with the Otters outscoring the Steelheads just 17-12 and Mississauga pushing Erie to overtime in the decisive game in addition to claiming...
