This week we are returning to our division reviews and identifying candidates to bounce back and candidates to avoid on draft day. We have already reviewed the Pacific Division, so today we move on to the Central. As a reminder here is a little context setting from the original article. In order to make this [...]
In honor of free agency opening this week we are going to pause the division reviews and spend a little time looking at recent signings. The focus is going to be a bit more historical, though we may touch on current signings later on. Players who sign free agent deals over the summer are often [...]
Today we are kicking off a mini-series focused on helping us make smarter player decisions at the draft table. It is not enough to know how a player performed in the previous season, but we need to try to determine whether that level of performance was reasonable or unsustainable. We will go division by division [...]
This week we are returning with the final part of our playoff series review. In last week’s article we covered the teams that were eliminated in the second round and this week we are going to take a look at the final four playoff teams. This means the Florida Panthers, Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars, and [...]
This week we are returning with part three of our playoff series review. In the last two articles we covered the teams that were eliminated in the first round (East here and West here). This week we are going to take a look at teams who were eliminated in the second round. This means Toronto, [...]
This week we are returning to our playoff series with the second part of our first-round review. Last week we covered the teams eliminated from the Western Conference: St Louis Blues, Colorado Avalanche, Los Angeles Kings, and Minnesota Wild. This week we are moving on to talk about the Eastern Conference so we will be [...]
The first round of the playoffs is officially wrapped and it is time to turn our attentions, at long last, to those series. We are going to dive into this extra set of games and see if there is anything to learn about a player’s performance. We will go round by round and look at [...]
We are back this week to finish our MVP series. We have completed reviews for centers, right and left wingers, and defensemen. Today, we will be moving on to goalies. The process will be much the same as skater articles, though using different categories and scoring metrics. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is [...]
This week we are continuing our MVP series with defensemen. I have included a small snippet from the original article below that outlines the process we are using in this series. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. For the purposes of this article, [...]
This week, we are continuing our MVP series by moving to left wings. I have included a small snippet from the original article below that outlines the process we are using in this series. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. For the purposes [...]
