Author: gabrieldesjardins

Goon ice-time or what coaches really think of their fight-first players

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 31 min read |

Tom Tango and I wrote this piece a while ago, but today seemed as good a day as any to post it. START 1979 was a momentous year for professional hocke...

Advanced Metrics: Zone Shift Masters

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 14 min read |

We track Zone Starts on behindthenet.ca, and the impact they have on a player's stats seems to have registered with the media and some portion of...

Behindthenet.ca playoff stats are up

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

Not just individual player stats and team stats, but also game-by-game stats: e.g. LA-Vancouver, game 2: http://behindthenet.ca/charts/Shots_Playoffs_...

How good were your projections?

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 2 min read |

Back in July, I asked you to project the final point totals in the Southeast division. And how did you – and Tom Awad's Vukota – do? T...

Where are your allegiances for the last Western Conference Playoff spots?

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

Let's get a show of hands here…Who do you love in the West? I'd be happy if things finished up the way they are now: LA in 3rd, San Jose...

Dave Feschuk: "this ain't baseball, Billy Beane. Helps to watch the game."

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

Faced with what must have been no ideas an hour before a deadline, Dave Feschuk watches one game then goes to the Mad Libs Book of Cliches to do a hat...

New Advanced Soccer Stats Site

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

Ok, I know this is off-topic, but I’ve been talking to a guy at work about Barcelona soccer and I decided to get back to running some soccer sta...

Winnipeg Jets: Home-Ice Advantage

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 4 min read |

Much has been made of the difference in the Jets‘ play at home and on the road: as of Saturday, at home, they’re on a 111-point pace; on t...

Does it take different amounts of time to assess a player's talent?

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

Phil Birnbaum was pretty amazed by my piece about Dustin Brown’s penalty-drawing performance and how much it has been worth to the LA Kings. Not...

Fight Breaks Out at Chicago Symphony

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

This one's for all the haters who say that hockey is too violent....