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Come Correct To P.K. Subban About His Corsi Or Don't Come At AllThe NHL is holding its annual player tour, in which it drags many of its top stars to New York for days of interviews and appearances. ESPN's Craig Custance took advantage of the opportunity (Insider link) to ask players what they thought of their own unconventional analytics, aka fancystats. ...

Tyler Dellow, big-time hockey analytics writer, is giving up the blog game to work for an NHL team—reportedly the Oilers. His hire comes on the heels of Eric Tulsky joining an unnamed team. It's a great time to be smart about hockey....

Luck Is Hockey's "Bullshit Dump"

That up there is Bruce Bennett's photo for Getty, zoomed in to unsustainable resolution, but still clearly showing the millimeters of shaved ice that brought the loose, potentially game-tying puck to a halt with 1:11 left. The notoriously shitty surface at MSG tends to increasingly make itself known...