NHL to Start Using Tracking Chips in Pucks and Jerseys
The tracking of advanced statistics in the NHL might become a lot easier. The league announced Saturday, a partnership with the company Sportvision with the intention to place tracking chips…
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Why Tomas Tatar is the Best Bargain in the NHL
Shortly after Tomas Tatar signed his three-year, $8.25 million deal, I wrote a piece explaining why the deal was a clear win for Detroit. Now more than halfway into the…
Current NHL Situational and Open-Play Corsi
Last week I had reviewed previous work on open-play corsi and looking at the league averages within specific faceoff situations. The idea with open-play corsi is that winning or loosing…
Cooking With Corsi: A Stanley Cup Recipe
“Do advanced stats Lead to Playoff Success?” This is the question that so many people love to argue about. Regardless of your opinion on the advanced stats “revolution” odds are…
Re-evaluating Open Corsi
During the Summer of Analytics, when many of the teams were hiring bloggers, the Hockey Analytics field was hurt with the loss of great minds as well as their removing…
Islanders: Contenders or Pretenders? (An Analytical Approach)
Every season at least one team that spent the prior year in the league’s basement gets off to a hot start and shocks the world. As the encore to their Cinderella…
Better Know a Statistic: Corsi & Fenwick
In this series, we will look at advanced hockey statistics and try to answer two questions: What is it?, and Why should I care about it? I will try to…
The Stats War Is Over
It started with a whisper. Almost as soon as the NHL began to display every relevant stat in it’s play-by-play, the data was being recorded and turned into discernible information…
Corsi: An Overrated Statistic
Before I begin this article I want to clarify that Corsi and Fenwick are not unreliable statistics. They are both good predictors of how players and teams will perform over…
David Booth a Positive Addition for Oilers?
With the Vancouver Canucks placing David Booth on waivers today, an interesting player is on the verge of hitting the free agent market. Interesting for reasons both good and bad,…
How the Kings Can Regain the Momentum Against the Ducks
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals — Michael Korda A funny thing happened on the way to a Kings’ series victory over the the…
The Luxury of Matt Greene
The Los Angeles Kings have gone 4-12 in Matt Greene’s last 16 appearances. He’s taken 11 minor penalties in that time. As Bob Miller has been so fond of repeating,…