After last night’s games, 30 of the league’s 32 teams have played at least five games. While it’s still too early to get a good sense of which early season performances are sustainable over the long haul, we’re starting to get a better picture of how the 2021-2022 standings may look.
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2021-2022 Preseason Update: October 11
We’ve made it to the eve of a new season. The games count starting tomorrow and we have a pretty good picture of each team as we head into the regular season. Let’s take a final look at the projected standings by division before the puck drop on a new season, along with a review of some of the key player absences as the season gets underway.
2021-2022 Season Preview: Calgary Flames
For all my season previews, we’ll be utilizing my 2021-2022 team and player projections. You can find much more background on these models here, along with more on assessing value of contracts here. In this post, we’ll preview the Calgary Flames.
2021 Offseason Update: July 27-29 – Western Conference
With the free agent frenzy starting to subside, I’m looking through each team’s moves over the past few days and analyzing their roster as it sits now. While we should expect a few more notable roster moves before training camps open, we probably have a reasonable picture of how things will look at this point.
2020-2021 Season Review: Calgary Flames
The Flames seemed to turn a corner late in the year under the new bench boss and they may have fought their way back into the playoff picture with more runway but they came up short in the 56 game season. Do the Flames have the pieces to become a contender with their current core?
Season in Review: Overview
With the end of the regular season nearly upon us, we have an opportunity to use the models we do have to assess team performance from the 2020-2021 regular season.
Predicting NHL Regular Season Point Percentage
Can we use data to find some teams that have overperformed and may end up fighting for their playoff lives down the stretch? What about underperforming teams that may find their groove just in time for the playoffs?
2020-2021 Trade Deadline Preview: North Division
The North Division has produced some wildly entertaining hockey through the first half of the season and I’m going to start my trade deadline preview there.
2020-2021 Mid-Season Rankings: North Division Predictions
The North has been an adventure almost every night, with plenty of goal scoring and generally lackluster defense.