Using Data to Understand Hockey
Last spring after Carolina exited the playoffs against Florida I wrote an article about how Carolina’s weakness is the inside game. By the inside game I mean generating shots from the slot and preventing shots against from the slot. To summarize, Carolina isn’t great at either. They take a higher percentage of their shots from … Read more
The Ottawa Senators lost their first 3 games of the first round playoff series against the Leafs and looked all but dead. However they have managed to fight back, win two games, and make it a series against the Maple Leafs. How have they done it? By playing sound defensive hockey. Using the Shot Analytics … Read more
Back in January I posted on Bluesky that I thought that Travis Green deserved consideration for coach of the year. I was hoping to write a more in depth blog post about this I think Travis Green deserves consideration for coach of the year but won’t get to it this week. Ottawa has a very … Read more