NHL - Analysis - Predicting the hot goalie in this year's Stanley Cup playoffs
A hot netminder can lead a team to the Stanley Cup. So who's this year's Cam Ward?
View ArticleE.J. Hradek: Capitals-Penguins, Round 3 takes the ice tonight
Here are three thoughts for the middle of the week. 1. The Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals get together tonight in D.C. for the third of...
View ArticleNHL playoffs 2010 - Timo Seppa: A guide to goalies in first-round matchups
Timo Seppa of Puck Prospectus analyzes the first-round goalie matchups of the 2010 NHL playoffs using a heat index formula. The good? Quite possibly Jaroslav Halak, even against a loaded Capitals...
View ArticleNHL playoffs 2010 - Robert Vollman: Applying the history of NHL playoff...
Robert Vollman of Puck Prospectus analyzed 30 years of first-round playoff data -- that's a nice sample size, eh? -- and found some trends for predicting upsets. In the Western Conference in 2010,...
View ArticleNHL: Chicago Blackhawks, Antti Niemi starting trend of cheap goaltenders
After the Chicago Blackhawks won the Cup with Antti Niemi in net ($827,000 salary last year), a new trend may be emerging in NHL front offices -- as we just saw with Chris Mason and Dan Ellis -- of...
View ArticleNHL: For Chicago Blackhawks, dumping Antti Niemi was right move
The Chicago Blackhawks got Marty Turco and, in the process, let Antti Niemi go. That seems odd on the surface: Niemi is 26 and just won a Stanley Cup (on the cheap). But a deeper analysis shows it was...
View ArticleNHL: Alex Goligoski gets his time to shine for Dallas Stars, Jarome Iginla...
Recently acquired Stars defenseman Alex Goligoski didn't arrive a minute too soon for Dallas head coach Marc Crawford. The Stars' bench boss hasn't he...
View ArticleNHL Playoffs 2012 - How the goalies in the playoffs stack up
Timo Seppa of Hockey Prospectus reintroduces the Goalie Heat Index and takes the temperature of the netminders who will be featured in the NHL playoffs. Who can get hot and steal a series?
View ArticleNHL - Midseason playoff odds - Chicago Blackhawks locked in, but Anaheim...
Neil Greenberg looks at the NHL's midseason playoff picture, assessing each team's postseason odds and analyzing key indicators to see who's trending up or down in the standings.
View Article2013 NHL offseason - How Atlantic Division teams are trending
Continuing our look at how NHL teams are trending in the new divisions, we examine the Atlantic, which features a handful of playoff teams and a coupl...
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