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An Expected Goals Model for Evaluating NHL Teams and Players

posted by Bettman's Nightmare, Mar 04, 2012

Link sloansportsconference.com

Some really interesting work from Brian Macdonald, providing some adjustments to Corsi and Fenwick to create an expected goals model (which will help adjust plus-minus). Tasty tidbit: hits are significant statistics, in that a low number of hits by your team, and a high number of hits against your team, "are good predictors of goals."

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Beating Up on the Little (or Big) Guys

Hawerchuk Dec 14 2009, 9:00a

How often do big guys hit little guys?

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Open-Ice Hits

Hawerchuk Oct 11 2009, 7:45p

Everyone loves bone-crushing open-ice hits. But how often do they occur? And who leads the league in giving them out and taking them?

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Cal Clutterbuck: Worldwide Leader in Hits?

Hawerchuk Oct 11 2009, 5:16p

Cal Clutterbuck set an NHL "record" for hits in 2008-09. Is this really a record or just the result of having a generous home scorer?