When analyzing a team using new WAR (Wins above replacement) metrics that are being utilized by people all across the statistics community in hockey, you often wonder what a team could be doing differently to maximize their opportunities for goal scoring, defense, shooting — all things that lead to....winning.
Using Sean Tierney’s WAR Lineup Creator, you can create a roster either using a current NHL team, or a custom team (something that will be a lot of fun to use when Seattle expansion comes) to see how the team should be producing given their data metrics.