This week’s list leans toward players whose roles have opened up in very real, very actionable ways. Whether it’s a defenseman stepping into heavy minutes because of an injury above him, a winger returning to a premium spot on an elite line, or a young forward carving out a stable place in the top six, [...]
It is the second week of training camp and with 32 teams having anywhere from 2-3 full rosters’ worth of players each, it can be hard to keep up with all the important news, line combinations, injuries, and so forth. Let’s take a look at some important notes from the last few days. First things [...]
There was an article over the weekend from Mark Spector at Sportsnet regarding Zach Hyman’s status as he recovers from that wrist injury he suffered in the playoffs. Spector interviews Hyman, who says he is still rehabbing his wrist and that he has yet to start shooting pucks. There is no firm timeline or anything, [...]
Building on last week’s MoneyPuck work, I tightened the visuals and focused them on location. The shot maps now use a Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) overlay to show where shot volume piles up, and the scatter layer marks every goal with a cleaner legend (game state + shot type). The range is the last three [...]
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 [...]
We will examine every team in the Western Conference and highlight players who are on favourable contracts to the team. We won’t include players on entry-level deals or those that have just expired. Some of these contracts are for the next five or six years, so there are no guarantees, but at the moment, they [...]
Welcome back to another edition of Analytics Advantage. With the first round of the playoffs in the rearview, I wanted to dig into how goaltending impacted who moved on and who packed up early. This week’s visuals are updated with data through May 5th (end of the first round) and include a few new features [...]
