puck-prospectus Stories - Behind The Net
A week of Puck Prospectus
I was quite interested to see the launch of Puck Prospectus, Baseball Prospectus' entry into hockey analysis. While there are lots of people doing hockey analysis, both inside the NHL and on their own...
New Post on Puck Prospectus: Hockey's Different Games
"Let's start with a simple hypothetical. Imagine you have never been to a hockey game before. The referee drops the puck and five on five play begins with both teams forechecking, playing defense and ...
New Puck Prospectus Post: "What Power-Play?"
http://puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=120"After the 2007-08 season, the NHL changed a rule in order to increase offense on the power play. In the past, when a penalty was called, the first p...
New Column on ESPN.com
Who plays the Toughest Minutes?"Big-Minute Men: Who are teams putting on the ice in the key moments of the game? Who are the centers taking the key draws? Who are the defensive pairings in the final m...
New Puck Prospectus Post: The Right Guy in Goal
http://puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=160"With an unproven goalie, teams can not tolerate a losing streak, so newly-arrived goaltenders have to play well immediately in the NHL. The differen...
New Article on Puck Prospectus: One-Goal Games
http://www.puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=188"While the trend is certainly downwards as scoring increases, several points confirm that it's possible to have both high-scoring and a high corr...
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;...
Joe Thornton's giveaways: bad for the Sharks?
Joe Thornton made one particularly egregious giveaway this season. Unfortunately, it was at 14:04 of the 3rd period in Game 4 of the first round of the playoffs, making the score 3-0 Ducks and dashing...
Puck Prospectus: Analyzing The Sharks' Defense
http://www.puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=216"One of the downsides of writing about hockey statistics is not necessarily getting to watch all that much hockey. So I decided to watch video of...
Do Fighters Ever Prosper?
New column on Puck Prospectus:http://www.puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=222"I looked at every fight during the 2008-09 season where one player received was voted the winner by at least 50% o...
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