Category: Around the NHL

A few of you didn’t get a chance to tune into Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Washington Capitals (I know, it still sounds made up) in time to catch the intro. Some of you just really, really want to watch it again. For everyone’s viewing pleasure,…

A couple of days ago, retired NHLer Martin St. Louis put out a tweet that reminded me of a topic that I had experimented with earlier in the spring. My opinion- I use to love playing on the road because most of my coaches wouldn't worry about matching lines because they didn't have the last…

If I had to pick a mainstream hockey article niche that is most likely to pull a collective eyebrow-raise out of the analytics community, it is the “shot quality” piece. You know the drill; a team scores goals despite underwhelming shot attempt / possession / Corsi / whatever you want to call it metrics, the…

The regular season is over, and it’s time for everybody’s favourite game: bragging to each other how correct we were, and mocking each other for how wrong we were. With that in mind, I prepared myself for the worst in October, whipping up a substantial prediction post in the span of an hour on opening…

If you’ve been keeping tabs on Hockey Media over the past few days, be it broadcast, podcast, written, social, or any potential incarnation, you’ve probably only been left with one feeling of certainty as a result of what you’ve consumed. That, of course, is that no one knows what the hell the Hart Trophy is…