The Winnipeg Jets sit atop the NHL standings. It’s mid January. The time is coming for contending teams to bolster their rosters for the playoff push. What do the Jets need to take them to the next level?
Analysis
Top 10 Goal Scorers – Forwards – Jan 2024
Who are the best goal scoring forwards in the NHL? With this being an analytics focused blog, we’ll need some criteria to back up the Continue Reading
NHL Roundup: December 1, 2023
It’s been a newsworthy week in the NHL. A coaching change, an end to the Patrick Kane rumors, and a couple of trades headline a busy week around the league.
The Fall Guy S23/24.E2: Dean Evason
The NHL’s coaching carousel claimed it’s second victim of the 2023/2024 season on Monday as the Minnesota Wild relieved Dean Evason of his head coaching duties and replaced him with John Hynes. A disappointing start to the season saw the Wild sitting 7th in the Central Division, just 2 points ahead of the Chicago Blackhawks, at the time of the coaching change. Evason took the fall, but the Wild’s slow start his doing?
Skater Contribution: Impact & Usage
For those that have been following along here for a while, you’ll be familiar with player impact. I define it as a player’s net impact Continue Reading
The Calgary Flames Trade Conditions Complex
The Calgary Flames made two franchise defining trades in the summer of 2022. Following the UFA exit of Johnny Gaudreau, Matthew Tkachuk made it known that he wanted out. GM Brad Treliving obliged and Tkachuk was shipped to the Florida Panthers shortly after his request became public. Later in the offseason, Sean Monahan was traded to the Montreal Canadiens for future considerations in order to clear cap space.
The Jeff Petry Trade Web: Part 7 – The Complete Trade Web
It’s time. The Jeff Petry Trade Web is massive. I’ve shared parts of it over the past few weeks but the reality is, there’s a lot left and I can’t possibly summarize all the connected storylines succinctly in a series of posts. Hopefully, the previous posts in the series have given an idea of the type of storylines that can be followed within the trade web. Now, it’s time to put it all out there and let you find the storylines that interest you. We’re about to stomp on the accelerator and power through the complete trade web. Let’s go.
The Jeff Petry Trade Web: Part 6 – Taylor Hall Thread
Today, we’ll look at another complete thread in the Jeff Petry Trade Web by following the Taylor Hall for Adam Larsson trade thread through to it’s current state.
The Jeff Petry Trade Web: Part 5 – The Curtis Glencross Thread
In Parts 1-4 of the Jeff Petry Trade Web series, we’ve been following the entire NHL chronologically as numerous origin threads appear independently. In Part 4, we saw a number of threads tie together. For Part 5, we’re going to change our approach as the threads start to branch off again and focus on a complete look at individual threads.