from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,
Analytics aren’t the answer.
Instead, analytics are the beginning of the question.
And the beginning question I have as a hockey consumer is: Why there isn’t more information available to an inquiring, inquisitive and educated public than exists in any forum that hasn’t been bought and paid for by NHL teams?
Much more information....
If you know where to go to look for it, you can find anything in baseball. Anything. Data isn’t reserved for various club managements. But hockey? As the NHL and its teams advance, the consumer is left behind. Even the most rudimentary information is all but impossible to locate.
For instance. NHL.com, which at least has increased its historical data base, will give you every player’s faceoff stats, home and away, at even-strength, on the power play and on the penalty kill, but the more critical breakdowns of the numbers — as in offensive/defensive zone; offensive/defensive zones while even, on the PP, on the PK; right circle, left circle; vs. righties and lefties; vs. righties and lefties in the right D circle, the left D circle; etc. — are nowhere to be found.
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