A little over two years ago, I wrote an open letter to those framing debate in hockey.
In the middle of a year where the hockey community was torn apart by a debate on the place of analytics in the sport, the letter pleaded for a few things:
- Mainstream journalists needed to do a better job researching and learning, on their own, about analytics in hockey so that they could in turn break down new ideas for a larger audience. Journalists have an uncanny ability to make the complicated simple, and the hockey world needed them.