After Game 2 the title of my article was, “The swatter of pucks saved our sorry butts.” Would it be lazy writing to want a mulligan on that one? In that game I was referring to the last 15 minutes of the third period. If that were to be the title of today’s article, it would be referring to the first 60:00 of the game.
The purpose of advanced analytics is to determine the almost imperceptible differences in a game. To tell a deeper story than just your eyes alone can manage. Last night, there was no deeper story, we saw all that there was to see.