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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting Stats’. There was an interesting article from Bcurlock on Twitter discussing how the Edmonton Oilers’ 5-on-5 offence has suffered, and it may be that they are activating their defencemen less on the attack. It got me wondering if indeed that
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We are four weeks into the NHL regular season and while the sample sizes aren’t quite big enough to make determinations, we are at the point where we can look for trends we need to keep an eye on. Today, we’re going to start evaluating trends by looking
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Today brings us three weeks into the NHL season, so we are over 10% of the way through. While the data is not fully settled yet – that will take another month or so – we can highlight some individual and league-wide trends to keep an eye on. Let’s look
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting Stats’. We are now two weeks into the NHL season and while we can’t make any firm determinations besides ‘holy hell San Jose sucks pondwater’, it’s always worth looking at early trends. Let’s see if we can notice why
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1 – Kell Surprise Utah had a game on Monday night in Chicago, so things have changed slightly, but what stands out about their first two games is that winger Clayton Keller didn’t just lead his team by share of the total even-strength ice time at just under 40%
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Jackson LaCombe, Philip Broberg, Dylan Samberg, Jake Walman. These are just a few defenceman who showed some promise in a lesser role and then took a big jump in their mid-20s. Some guys just never take that next step (Scott Perunovich and Erik Brannstrom), but when they do, they
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Welcome back to another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. This week, the preseason previews continue and this time we are looking at new coaches in new locations. There are several teams that changed their head coach, but we are going to focus on five interesting spots: Glen Gulutzan
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. Last week, we looked at defencemen with both good and bad puck-management skills in terms of retrieving the puck in, or failing to exit, the defensive zone. Let’s build off that and look at team-wide data.
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting Stats’. Last week, we looked at common characteristics in playoff teams from the last four years. One thing a lot of playoff teams have in common is that their respective defence groups failed at exiting the defensive zone a lot less frequently
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Welcome back for another round of ’10 Interesting Stats’. The last couple of weeks have seen the season previews begin, starting with what non-playoff teams from 2024-25 need to do to get to the postseason, and moving to what some playoff teams need to do to remain in
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The NHL season is a month away and my previews will continue Tuesday (September 9) as normal, but I want to give a bit of an update about this blog. The ‘10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’ column will return for the 2025-26 season, so don’t worry about that.
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Welcome back for another week of ’10 Interesting (To Me) Stats’. Last week’s edition looked at 10 non-playoff teams and what needs to happen for them to push back towards a playoff spot. This week, we’re going in the other direction, and looking at 10 playoff teams