I wonder if Babs and Kenny are the type of people that would embrace this

The Bourke part of the article is fun, you can almost see it happening, if you think about it
hahahha

Posted by Zqto on 03/07/13 at 09:37 AM ET

This just confirms that Abdelkader is a better test taker than Nyquist or Tatar.

Posted by some kid on 03/07/13 at 11:21 AM ET

Every NHL team, executive, and coach—even Brian Burke—should be embracing this. Burke can make jokes, but he should look to baseball specifically, but also where basketball and football are now.

The teams that embraced these analytics made the greatest strides, and the ones that didn’t fell the most, or at best, cost themselves a lot of money as a result.

Posted by Nathan from the scoresheet! on 03/07/13 at 11:25 AM ET

The teams that embraced these analytics made the greatest strides

I agree with 99% of what you post, buuuut… Baseball embraced analytics far more than football has, so.  Um.

I do think there is a definite place for analytics in hockey but the tracking is the key.  Basketball teams have started using a camera system that tracks where a player is on the floor and helps complile data about tendencies and accuracy of shooting/passing from particular points.  Information like that, five-man unit data, and such could be very, very useful from a hockey perspective.  The key isn’t really to utilize analytics, right now, it’s to dream up the appropriate ways to measure analytics.  You can look at a stat like Corsi and TPSH’s posts (He really does understand it well) to see flaws in current analytics.  The way it works in basketball is often that you see something happening and the statistics either back it up or debunk it (Ie, Kobe’s a good closer?  Not so much, it turns out.). 

I think something that would be very beneficial would be to hire someone to look at the last fifteen years worth of Nick Lidstrom footage.  So much of what makes a player great is their unique gifts.  Lidstrom had those, but he also had a lot of discipline/smarts that could be mined and distilled into some pretty interesting things.  You probably can’t coach a guy to make the right decision every single time, any more than you can coach a guy to have Chara’s size, but with better information you can probably help explain why something is a right decision to some of these boneheads (hey Quincey).

Posted by shanetx from Floydada, Texas on 03/07/13 at 03:41 PM ET