Rob Vollman on Victor Hedman and Swedish Elite League Translations
How do players in the Swedish Elite League project to the NHL. Rob Vollman takes a look at Puck Prospectus.
How do players in the Swedish Elite League project to the NHL. Rob Vollman takes a look at Puck Prospectus.
The 2008-09 KHL season is about 14 games in, and we can take our first stab at producing a league equivalency. There are 23 skaters in the KHL who played at least 20 games in the NHL last year....
I now have five-to-seven years of player data for Canadian Junior A leagues, so it's now possible to generate equivalencies for each league. I ran the data for British Columbia (BCHL), Alberta...
Kyle Okposo made a few headlines this week: after the World Junior Championships are over, he's quitting the University of Minnesota and joining the New York Islanders. He was drafted 7th overall...
The short column I wrote the level of play in the USHL has generated a lot of interest in the last couple of days.Marc Foster's junior hockey blog made reference to it:Junior Hockey BlogAnd the...
http://puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=192"Overall, Minnesota hockey translates to the NCAA (NHLE = 0.41) at approximately 0.18, giving an NHLE of 0.073. The translation to the USHL is...
My attempts to analyze NHL Equivalencies have always been hampered by the question of usage. The NHL has published player ice time (TOI) data for over ten years, but other leagues have been slower...
The value of keeping better statistics has finally moved past the NHL, with the top Finnish, Swedish and Russian leagues tracking and publishing ice time figures for every player. There's very...