Toronto Maple Leafs: The Forgotten Colin Greening

There are many factors behind the recent success of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Factors oftentimes oblivious to the casual fan.

Few things are certain in this wild sport we call hockey.

Crazy as it may be, predicting the outcome of a game in which contestants traverse a frozen ice surface with knives strapped to their feet while attempting to slap bouncing chunks of rubber into narrow openings of a heavily guarded net is a difficult undertaking.

Which isn’t to say it’s impossible. At least, not completely.

Those far more intelligent than I have developed statistical models with terrifically high success rates to do exactly that, igniting a groundswell shift in the way predictions have been made…