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Rob Vollman on Victor Hedman and Swedish Elite League Translations
Rob Vollman has a piece at Puck Prospectus on translating players from the SEL to the NHL. He does a better job than I did over the years of figuring this stuff out by normalizing for the differ...
Russian KHL League Equivalency to date
The 2008-09 KHL season is about 14 games in, and we can take our first stab at producing a league equivalency. There are 23 skaters in the KHL who played at least 20 games in the NHL last year. Their ...
Canadian Junior A NCAA/Major Junior Equivalencies
I now have five-to-seven years of player data for Canadian Junior A leagues, so it's now possible to generate equivalencies for each league. I ran the data for British Columbia (BCHL), Alberta (AJHL),...
Kyle Okposo and Projecting the NCAA to the NHL
Kyle Okposo made a few headlines this week: after the World Junior Championships are over, he's quitting the University of Minnesota and joining the New York Islanders. He was drafted 7th overall in 2...
Lots of hits on USHL Article
The short column I wrote the level of play in the USHL has generated a lot of interest in the last couple of days.Marc Foster's junior hockey blog made reference to it:Junior Hockey BlogAnd the USHL P...
New Article on Puck Prospectus: Minnesota High School Hockey equivalencies
http://puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=192"Overall, Minnesota hockey translates to the NCAA (NHLE = 0.41) at approximately 0.18, giving an NHLE of 0.073. The translation to the USHL is 0.195;...
Swedish Elite League NHLE with TOI
My attempts to analyze NHL Equivalencies have always been hampered by the question of usage. The NHL has published player ice time (TOI) data for over ten years, but other leagues have been slower to ...
KHL->NHL Equivalency with TOI
The value of keeping better statistics has finally moved past the NHL, with the top Finnish, Swedish and Russian leagues tracking and publishing ice time figures for every player. There's very little ...
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