Matt Wilson
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.
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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...
How Much Did Sanctions Hurt the Spitfires?
May 19th, 2017 It’s been a rough six years for the Windsor Spitfires. Since their back-to-back Memorial Cup Championships in 2009 and 2010 and another Conference Finals run in 2011, the Spitfires have missed the OHL playoffs twice and lost in the opening round four times, including three times to the rival London Knights. This year, they suffered...
Otters Keep Hitting on First-Round Picks
April 29th, 2017 Much has been made of the importance of stockpiling second-round draft picks in the OHL Priority Selection. Because the OHL prohibits the trading of first-round picks, second rounders are the most valuable futures available on the market. Adding one or more extra top-40 players to a team in a given year can inject a franchise with...
