Sean Tierney’s work on shot assists - passes that set up shots - reveals that most of the New Jersey Devils were very low in this category. I look more closely at the numbers and get surprised that Tyler Kennedy is on the good side of this metric.
The efforts to drive hockey analytics by hockey fans who want to learn and understand the game like never before continue to impress me. And I’m proud to say that this site provided a platform that led to one of the larger efforts within analytics. Ryan Stimson’s passing project has been a voluntary effort to track every single pass in every single game in 5-on-5 play.