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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’! Too often – and I am guilty of this – analysts provide player data and compare that directly to others around the league without providing that player’s team-specific context. Identifying which players are succeeding within their team context can
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Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’! This column often focuses on 5-on-5 play, and the reasons are 5-on-5 play is where the biggest ice-time sample comes from, and that’s where a lot of tracking data comes from. In general,
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Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’! Using tracking data from All Three Zones, last week’s newsletter looked at changes in playstyles among teams, and forwards, at 5-on-5 this season when compared to the prior two seasons. This week, let’s do the
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Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. This week, we’re looking at changes in player (or team) offensive styles so far in 2025-26. Which players (or teams) are creating more (or less) off the rush? Or off the cycle? How about improving/declining playmakers
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Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting Stats’. This week, we’re looking at player efficiency. Specifically, we’re looking at the shot attempts a team creates with a given forward on the ice, the tracked scoring chance contributions (individual chances plus assists on teammate scoring chances, or SCC/
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Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. We are nearing the end of calendar 2025, so it’s appropriate to do a retrospective, and we’ll do that using 5-on-5 tracking data from All Three Zones. We are going to look at some of
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’! Last week, we went over one reason why 10 bubble players for the Team USA Olympic roster should make the team, and this week we’re heading north. Here is one reason why 10 different bubble players for Team
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We are nearing the end of the calendar year, and that means an important date is on the horizon as countries need to declare their Olympic hockey rosters by December 31st. Today’s article will go over some players on the bubble for Team USA and the case for each.
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Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. Researching a DFS slate a few days ago, I seemed to notice a pattern of teams giving up a lot of expected goals against per 60 minutes (xGA/60) on the penalty kill having high penalty-kill save percentages.
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting Stats’ as we enter December and approach the one-third mark of the season. This year has seen no shortage of superlative efforts from top rookies so let’s look at what has made 10 different rookies so successful, or show so
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. Today, we are looking at forwards and their on-ice shooting percentages (OISh%) at all strengths, which is simply the team’s shooting percentage when that player is on the ice. Data is from Natural Stat Trick and current
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Back in September, I had a thread on BlueSky about defencemen botching defensive zone retrievals and failing to exit the zone at 5-on-5. The crux was how it impacted a team’s goal-scoring ability, but how its utility was looking at defence groups at the extremes of