Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’, and to another NHL season! The new 84-game campaign starts today, and to kick off the season, let’s look at some younger players who can be difference-makers for their teams. These aren’t necessarily rookies, though
I recently had a post looking ahead to the 2026-27 NHL season, comparing eight teams to eight horror movies. It struck me that while they aren’t all overtly negative, some are, so I wanted to balance that out today by giving eight (good! positive!) predictions for the upcoming
Sports and horror movies go together better than we might think. Not only in the context of gruesome injuries that occur, but have you ever gone to a bar or a party when a team goes on a deep playoff run and gets crushed in a humiliating way? People walk
Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. We have just one week left until the NHL regular season and my look ahead to the 2026-27 campaign rolls on. Having completed my projections, I thought it’d be a good idea to see which teams are
As a Montreal Canadiens fan, the 2025-2026 season was special in many ways, but it wasn’t great for everyone; goalie Sam Montembeault had a very bad year, and that was unfortunate. He had the most starts for any Canadiens goalie through the three years of their rebuild from
Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. There are two weeks until the start of the 2026-27 NHL regular season, and our look ahead to the campaign rolls on. In last week’s edition of ’10 Stats’, we covered forwards whose 2026-27 projections saw
Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting Stats’. Two weeks ago, we covered players heading for a decline in their even-strength production. I have finally finished all my projections for goals, assists, shots, power-play points, hits, blocks, penalty minutes, and face-off wins, including empty-net situations.
The Vancouver Canucks recently extended young defenceman Zeev Buium to an eight-year contract with a cap hit of $9.38-million per season. He has one year left on his entry-level deal, so this extension doesn’t kick in until next offseason. The cap is expected to rise
Nashville traded Luke Evangelista to New Jersey. Why they traded him matters.
Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. The NHL regular season is four weeks away, so we need to kick our 2026-27 outlook into high gear. I have (mostly) finished my projections as they’re just missing empty-net situations and rookies. There are further
This series has dug into the changing nature of the defensive position. What the future looks like is another matter.
Power play efficiency has been a hallmark of this era of the NHL. Defencemen have reaped the rewards, but there's more to their power play involvement than just production.