NHL to Start Using Tracking Chips in Pucks and Jerseys Craig Hagerman | January 25, 2015 The tracking of advanced statistics in the NHL might become a lot easier. The league announced Saturday, a partnership with the company Sportvision with the intention to place tracking chips…
Why Tomas Tatar is the Best Bargain in the NHL Prashanth Iyer | January 17, 2015 Shortly after Tomas Tatar signed his three-year, $8.25 million deal, I wrote a piece explaining why the deal was a clear win for Detroit. Now more than halfway into the…
Current NHL Situational and Open-Play Corsi Joshua Weissbock | December 16, 2014 Last week I had reviewed previous work on open-play corsi and looking at the league averages within specific faceoff situations. The idea with open-play corsi is that winning or loosing…
Cooking With Corsi: A Stanley Cup Recipe Andrew Wilson | December 14, 2014 “Do advanced stats Lead to Playoff Success?” This is the question that so many people love to argue about. Regardless of your opinion on the advanced stats “revolution” odds are…
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…
Islanders: Contenders or Pretenders? (An Analytical Approach) Pete Judge | December 5, 2014 Every season at least one team that spent the prior year in the league’s basement gets off to a hot start and shocks the world. As the encore to their Cinderella…
Better Know a Statistic: Corsi & Fenwick Jeff Herman | November 4, 2014 In this series, we will look at advanced hockey statistics and try to answer two questions: What is it?, and Why should I care about it? I will try to…
The Stats War Is Over J.D. Burke | August 20, 2014 It started with a whisper. Almost as soon as the NHL began to display every relevant stat in it’s play-by-play, the data was being recorded and turned into discernible information…
Corsi: An Overrated Statistic Andrew Wilson | July 22, 2014 Before I begin this article I want to clarify that Corsi and Fenwick are not unreliable statistics. They are both good predictors of how players and teams will perform over…
David Booth a Positive Addition for Oilers? James Phieffer | June 19, 2014 With the Vancouver Canucks placing David Booth on waivers today, an interesting player is on the verge of hitting the free agent market. Interesting for reasons both good and bad,…
How the Kings Can Regain the Momentum Against the Ducks Walter McLaughlin | May 12, 2014 One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals — Michael Korda A funny thing happened on the way to a Kings’ series victory over the the…
The Luxury of Matt Greene Sheng Peng | April 7, 2014 The Los Angeles Kings have gone 4-12 in Matt Greene’s last 16 appearances. He’s taken 11 minor penalties in that time. As Bob Miller has been so fond of repeating,…