I’m not really interested in doing a detailed analysis of the Leafs/Lightning series. This post is mostly going to be about where I’m at as a fan of the team, not a break-down of the roster or the way the team plays. I’ll say this bit up front and then be done with the hockey …
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As long as the Toronto Maple Leafs are committed to allocating a significant portion of their salary cap space to The Big Four forwards, they’re going to need to find good value on the free agent market to complement those players. While NHL teams have, in my opinion, gotten much better at evaluating forwards over …
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I don’t believe in any kind of afterlife. This may seem like a strange way to start off a hockey article but it’s central to everything else I’m going to say. I think we exist for a limited amount of time, and then we don’t, and that’s kind of just it. And because I think …
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Yesterday I wrote that Corsi is better at predicting future goals than expected goals are. This post is going to be a brief update on that and I’m going to get right to the point, so if you want more details about theory, methods, etc. I recommend reading the first post. In that first post …
This is going to be a long post, so I’m going to front-load the top line results (with a little bit of history) and then get into a longer discussion of some of the details after that for anyone who is interested. One of the earliest and arguably still most important discoveries in hockey statistics …
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The other day on Twitter I said this: This is a topic I’ve briefly looked into in the past, and I’ve posted the results to Twitter, but I deleted all my old tweets at one point and that data is gone, so I figured I’d try to do some work on this question again, and …
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