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• On Eller: You Say Pressbox; I Say You're Wrong

  Lars Eller is a minus-7 player on a team with an 8-2-1 record. He has 1 goal and 1 assist in 11 games. He's in the doghouse among both the Montreal media, and... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2014 SPORTS

• Which Habs Players Are Pushing Possession and Creating Offense

  One of the main objectives in hockey analytics is to establish a direct link between specific events that occur on the ice and scoring-chances. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2014 SPORTS

• Comparing the Play of Habs and Leafs Centres in the Neutral-zone

  This post continues with my work of tracking every puck-possession event for 3 separate NHL teams. Included in this post are the numbers for the Montreal... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 SPORTS

• Quantifying Defensive-play Using Micro-stats

  New data-generated defensive-metrics Defensive-play is the most difficult aspect of hockey analytics. Yet it plays a huge part in every player’s impact on the... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 SPORTS

• Breaking Down the Habs Tendencies and Success-rates by Zone Through the First 3...

  Neutral-zone play makes a differenceKey metrics in quantifying team-play include; time spent defending, as well as time spent with possession. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2014 SPORTS

• Preseason Offense-driving Numbers for Habs Remaining Players

  Also includes numbers from 2013-14 regular season and 2014 playoffsTracking individual puck-possession events allows us to distinguish between events that push... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 SPORTS

• Quantifying Performance While in Possession of the Puck

  Habs preseasonTwo ways that we can quantify each player's impact on puck-possession is to calculate their success-rate when making a play with possession, and t... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2014 SPORTS

• Rating Players' Offensive and Defensive Impact on Puck-possession

  Habs preseasonAmong many of the metrics I've created are 3 separate metrics used to quantify each player's offensive and defensive impact on puck possession. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2014 SPORTS

• HABS PRESEASON: Successful and Unsuccessful Offensive-touches in the O-zone...

  

  Total through 3 preseason gamesTracking puck-possession plays provides opportunities to compare players that are otherwise unavailable. Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2014 SPORTS

• Habs Scrimmages; by the Numbers

  Exclusive metrics through 2 gamesThis post will compare players on the Montreal Canadiens through the team's second and third intra-squad games of the 2014-15... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2014 SPORTS

• Edmonton Oilers Young Stars; by the Numbers

  Through 2 gamesThis post will compare players on the Edmonton Oilers Young Stars team through the team's first 2 games of the 2014 Young Stars tournament. Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2014 SPORTS

• Defensive-zone Puck-moving Plays Per-60; Relative to a Replacement

  This post will communicate the number of successful defensive-zone puck-moving plays each player produced per-60 minutes played. Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2014 SPORTS

• Quantifying Offense-driving Plays Relative to Replacement

  In previous posts I focused on possession-driving plays that occur in the defensive-zone, the neutral-zone, and the offensive-zone. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2014 SPORTS

• Offensive-zone Scoring-plays Per-60 Relative to Replacement

  This post will communicate the number of successful offensive-zone scoring plays each player produced per-minute played. It will compare each player's total... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2014 SPORTS

• Percentage of Corsi-events-AGAINST Resulting in a scoring-chance-AGAINST;...

  LOWER IS BETTER! This post will focus on the percentage of even-strength "CORSI-against" events that resulted in a scoring-chance. Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2014 SPORTS

• Percentage of Corsi-events-for Resulting in a Scoring-chance-for; Relative to a...

  This post will focus on the percentage of even-strength "CORSI-for" events that resulted in a scoring-chance. It will compare each player's result with the... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2014 SPORTS

• Even-strength Scoring-chances Per-100 Possession Plays -above Replacement

  The top offensive-players on any team create the most scoring-chances. The most efficient offensive-players create the most scoring-chances per-possession play. Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2014 SPORTS

• Quantifying How Much "time" a Player Spends Defending in the Defensive-zone...

  Lower is better! Players who spend a substantial amount of their time on the ice defending in the defensive-zone, are far less likely to produce plays that... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2014 SPORTS

• Even-strength Offensive-zone Puck-possession Percentage Above Replacement

  It's easy to underestimate the impact simply having possession of the puck in the offensive-zone has on scoring-chance numbers. Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2014 SPORTS

• Scoring-chances for and Against -above Replacement

  This post will take each Montreal Canadiens player's scoring-chance numbers, and compare them to the average produced by players who also play that player's... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2014 SPORTS