With the second round of the playoffs underway, this week’s edition of Analytics Advantage takes a look at how teams and players are trending based on their underlying numbers. The box score doesn’t always tell the full story, and these updated Tableau visuals offer more context behind who’s driving results and who might be falling [...]
Let’s start with what was easily the more entertaining of the two games on Saturday. Just when you thought an ending to regulation couldn’t be as dramatic as Cole Perfetti in Game 7 of the first round, Reilly Smith came along in Game 3 and said “hold my beer.” Vegas 4, Edmonton 3 (Oilers lead [...]
The San Jose Sharks have traded defenseman Jake Walman to the Edmonton Oilers for a conditional 2026 first-round pick and forward Carl Berglund. The Oilers receive: Walman, who has leveraged an opportunity on a rebuilding Sharks team into a career season (32 PTS in 50 GP). At the time of the trade, he also led [...]
It has been over 14 months since defenceman John Klingberg last played in the NHL. The 32-year-old blue liner has been out for over a year due to a hip resurfacing surgery, which is no small matter for hockey players his age. There had been rumblings that he was looking to make a return sometime [...]
