Hockey Analysis

This Chris Pronger to Anaheim trade today is an interesting one. My initial reaction is that the Oilers got burnt on this trade but after thinking about it, I am not so sure that Anaheim did all that great either. When trading a star player if you don’t get a star player back I tend [...]

Here are the end of season NHL Power Rankings. Though Ottawa’s Power Rank has dropped a bit in recent weeks they managed to hold on to top spot which they have held on for the whole season. At the other end of the spectrum, the St. Louis Blues eeked out the Penguins for the bottom [...]

Here are this weeks power rankings. Teams on the move are San Jose (up 3 to 6th), Montreal (up 3 to 10th), Toronto (up 3 to 12th), and Minnesota (up 3 to 17th) while Edmonton (down 3 to 13th) and Nashville (down 3 to 14th) have slipped back. Rank Last Week Team AdjWinP SchedStr Power [...]

Here are the NHL Power Rankings as of March 29, 2006. Rank Last Week Team AdjWinP SchedStr Power Rank 1 1 Ottawa 0.704 0.488 0.679 2 2 Detroit 0.697 0.483 0.636 3 4 Dallas 0.599 0.516 0.622 4 3 Buffalo 0.627 0.492 0.617 5 6 Colorado 0.568 0.516 0.592 6 8 Carolina 0.634 0.477 0.586 [...]

There hasn’t been a lot of change in the NHL power rankings from last week as Montreal was the only team to move up or down 3 spots as they dropped from 14th to 17th. Only 2 teams moved 2 spots as well with Florida moving from 25th to 23rd and the NY Islanders doing [...]

Here are this weeks NHL Power Rankings. Significant moves up the list included several teams making a late season push for the playoffs: San Jose (11th to 8th), Anaheim (13th to 9th), Nashville (12 to 10), Toronto (17 to 15) and Atlanta (23 to 21). Those dropping down the list included Vancouver (8 to 11), [...]

Ottawa remains on top of the Power Rankings and barring a collapse look like they will remain their for the remainder of the season. After Ottawa though we have 6 teams tightly packed together – Detroit, Buffalo, Calgary, Colorado, Dallas and Carolina. In my mind these are your top Stanley Cup contenders. This weeks movers [...]

Here are the first post-olympics power rankings. There have been some significant movers since the previous power rankings on February 8th. Big risers include Detroit (8th to 3rd) and San Jose (13th to 9th) while the big drop was by Toronto (12th to 17th) who lost to the lowly Capitals for the 3rd time this [...]

Last night Minnesota beat Los Angeles 5-1 and today these two teams are the big movers in our Power Rankings as they switched positions. Minnesota rose 4 places from 14th to 10th while Los Angeles fell 4 places from 10th to 14th. Others movers include Buffalo who rose from 8th to 5th and Carolina who [...]

These are the first power rankings under my new algorithm which I think is a fair bit more accurate, and possibly more controversial, than the previous version. The improvements made include: -Treating shootout wins/losses as ties. The shootout does not accurately reflect the ability of a team to win or lose games (when a skills [...]