Intelligent Hockey

With the trade deadline fast approaching and the regular season 75 percent finished, the weight of what is at stake for each franchise in the upcoming playoffs begins to materialize. Possessing star players is invaluable to achieving a long playoff run, and having depth is essential, but the salary cap puts a timeline on both. … Read the whole thing.

We as a hockey community are going to be inundated with as much knowledge as we can handle. The NHL has just unveiled its renovated NHL.com stats pages incorporating more sophisticated statistics, and more intriguing features are forthcoming, including player-tracking technology, stat visualizations, stat-search filtering, a predictor algorithm, and real time, 3D digital recreations of … Read the whole thing.