Tim Bourcier
My name is Tim Bourcier and I am contributor for the Washington Capitals and hockey in Europe. Prior to working with The Hockey Writers, I worked with a professional hockey club in Budapest, Hungary. I also wrote articles for the MOL Liga and international hockey tournaments. I am near a PhD in Economics and I have eight years work experience as a statistician. You can check out my previous work, new stuff and wonky analysis over at my blog: bourciertm.wordpress.com. Also, check out my blog for the KHL team in my home city at www.bearshockeyblog.com
Author's Posts
KHL Power Rankings - Weeks 5 & 6
October 10th, 2013 KHL Power Rankings - Weeks 5 & 6 We are about 1/5th of the way through the season and there is definitely some separation between the best and the worse clubs. We do have some surprises! Dinamo Riga has held their top spot and Donbass is continuing to play great as well. Lev Praha has fallen off their pace as of late, but they...Early Questions Surrounding the Caps
Last year. the Capitals went from worst to first in their division during a lockout shortened season. At only three games in, the 1-2 record is not necessarily an indicator on the direction the Caps season is headed in. However, there are some early questions surrounding the Caps that they will need to address if they are going to...KHL Power Rankings - Week 3/4
First off, an apology on this late post. The plan is to put this out there weekly on Tuesdays, but with only two games a week it is difficult to rank teams. We have put two weeks together for this week only and likely from this point forward. As of last Tuesday, most teams had only played five games and the week before they had...
KHL Power Rankings - Week 2
September 10th, 2013 The season is officially one week over, but most teams have only played two games. Record is important in how the teams move, but their first ranking also played into things as well. There were some big movers toward the top and because of this many of the teams that started in the middle fell a bit. The big news last week was...
KHL Power Rankings - Week 1
September 4th, 2013 The KHL 2013-2014 season kicks off today with a rematch between last year's two finalists: Dynamo Moscow and Traktor Chelyabinsk. St. Petersburg SKA grabbed the first edition top spot as the best regular season team last year and then adding several players, including Ilya Kovalchuk. The last spot goes to Metallurg Nk who gave up...
Caps Back to Early Playoff Exit Status with Grabovski Signing
August 25th, 2013 The DC fan base exploded with joy this past week over the Grabovski signing. While this is an improvement in the current roster, Grabovski does nothing more that put the Capitals back to early playoff exit status. More on this later. The events leading up to it were humorous with a Belarus news agency first reporting the signing...
