from Patrick Johnston of the Vancouver Province,

What actually happened? What was actually important?

Those are water cooler questions that go back a long time. They’re also questions that hockey’s number-crunchers have been chasing for some time now.

The challenge in answering those questions, since day one, has been the quality of data.

But now a team of computer scientists, led by a figure skater from North Vancouver and a computer scientist from Iran, may finally have figured it out?

A host of hockey people and famous sports owner and tech billionaire Mark Cuban think so.

Craig Buntin knows so.

Buntin is the CEO of SportLogiq, the Montreal-based tech startup which is looking to change the way coaches, scouts, players, fans and broadcasters look at the game.

"Reaction's been everything from 'My God this has been what I've been waiting for for ten years'...the other half is 'this is a lot of data and we don't know what to do with it,'" he said. But, there's no doubt, Buntin believes, the enthusiasm is there and his team is ready for the challenge.

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