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The Touches Stat - The Next Horizon In Advanced Stats
The evolution of advanced NHL statistics begins sometime during the Original Six era. The building blocks of advanced statistics have been gleaned from interviews, books and conversations with men like Harry Sinden, Roger Nielson and Jim Corsi. Sinden's Bruins were tracking an ancestral version...
Looking at Touches - Minnesota at Edmonton
The season is over! But the evaluation of some of these nimrods is ongoing. For those of you who have been reading at C+B all season you'll know that I've done a few installments of this series where I note every time an Oiler touches the puck in a given period to get a handle on things like...
Looking at Touches - Edmonton at Boston
Well, we're starting to get into a bit of a groove here now. Over the last couple of weeks I've taken a close look at two periods of hockey, one between the Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars and the other between the Oilers and the Columbus Blue Jackets. I noted every time an Oiler player...
Looking at Touches - Columbus at Edmonton
About a week ago I posted all of the "touches" Oiler players made in the first period of a game against the Dallas Stars. I noted every time an Oiler player touched the puck and what that player did with it hoping that it might tell us a little bit about how each player handles the puck. The...
Looking at Touches - Dallas at Edmonton
Over the last few days I re-watched the first period of the Oilers game against the Dallas Stars and noted every time an Oiler player touched the puck and what that player did with it. I will probably try to do this exercise more often this season - perhaps one period every five games - to see if...
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