Author: gabrieldesjardins

2013 NHL Playoffs: Are we to believe the Toronto Maple Leafs are hitting their way to the Stanley Cup?

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 23rd 2019 | 3 min read |

I am well aware that I went the entire 2012-13 NHL season without contributing even a single sentence of value to this enterprise, snarky sentence fra...

"Today, I consider myself the luckiest General Manager on the face of the Earth"

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 21st 2019 | 2 min read |

On Sunday night, a mile from my house, people turned over cars and lit buses on fire. In a way, it was fitting: had the Oakland A's or Boston Red ...

What I do during the lockout: Hate on the San Francisco Giants

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 21st 2019 | 4 min read |

I grew up a fan of precisely two sports teams: the only hockey team of consequence, the Winnipeg Jets, and Canada’s team, the Montreal Expos. I ...

How did the Kings get here?

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 20th 2019 | 5 min read |

You can’t win the Stanley Cup without being efficient and lucky: Chicago and Pittsburgh had all of their high draft picks turn out great after a...

Jonathan Quick - not good high stick side?

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 20th 2019 | 3 min read |

I’ve heard a few people say lately that Jonathan Quick can be beaten high (this is true of all goalies, of course – if you get the puck up...

Mark Scheifele vs Sean Couturier: Year 1 of 20-years of second-guessing

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 6 min read |

As you may well remember, I was not positive on the Jets picking Mark Scheifele 7th overall ahead of Sean Couturier (see cautionary tale #1, #2, #3 an...

NHL Average Length of Regular Season OT by Year

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 1 min read |

I guess I'm on a bit of a roll here, making charts about OT. I thought this was vaguely interesting too:...

The Stunning Weakness of Predictive Analytics and Business Intelligence

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 3 min read |

Since this article that mentions the "predictive analytics" used by Target Stores appeared in the NY Times Magazine, people have periodicall...

NHL OT Shot Rates

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 1 min read |

I like this plot – differing incentives: This suggests that players start to get very sleepy around the middle of the second OT:...

Playoff OT Scoring Rates 1988-2011

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 1 min read |

I thought this was moderately interesting – 5-minute moving average over the last 25 years: And the percentage of games still in progress:...