Should college football teams ever bring kickoffs out of the endzone?
September 09, 2013
The end of the summer was pretty busy for me, so I haven’t had time to do any posts on here. But I’m back now, although with a short post about something that’s not hockey related. Hopefully you’ll still find it interesting.
While watching college football with friends last weekend,...
On Friday the NHL released the 2013-2014 regular season schedule. This season will be the first played under the new conference and division alignment which sent Winnipeg west and Columbus and Detroit east. A key aspect of the new alignment is that there is an imbalance in the number of...
Should you shoot first or second in a shootout?
July 15, 2013
I’ve always been interested in the strategy that goes into shootouts in the NHL. Each coach must first choose three players to take the shootout attempts for their team, and then they have to decide the ordering of those players. In addition, the home team gets to decide whether to...
Are shorthanded goals momentum killers?
July 08, 2013
Shorthanded goals are powerplay killers. You hear this all the time when you watch hockey games. But how true is this conventional wisdom? It certainly doesn’t seem very common for a team to concede a shorthanded goal and then quickly follow it with a powerplay goal of their own. But...
How unusual was the ending of Monday's Game 6?
June 26, 2013
As a follow up to yesterday’s post on the latest Cup-winning goals in history, today I’m going to look at little more at the craziness of the end of Monday’s game. Earlier today I was thinking about how often it is that a team comes from behind to tie...