When the NHL expanded in 1967, the Toronto Maple Leafs were, at least in terms of Stanley Cup championships won, the league’s second-most-successful franchise. They had won the Stanley Cup 13 times, just one fewer than the Montreal Canadiens, their Quebecois rivals. But while the modern era of the NHL has been mostly good to […]
Last season was among the zaniest in NHL history. An expansion team came within three games of winning the Stanley Cup. A New Jersey Devil won the Hart Trophy as the league’s MVP. The Washington Capitals didn’t lose to the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round of the playoffs — and went on to lift […]
The National Hockey League dropped the opening puck on its 98th season Wednesday night, beginning the first campaign in which hockey’s flourishing metrics movement can truly be described as having moved from the game’s fringe to its center. As Sean McIndoe, my colleague at Grantland, wrote: In what became known as hockey’s summer of analytics, […]
The National Hockey League dropped the opening puck on its 98th season Wednesday night, beginning the first campaign in which hockey’s flourishing metrics movement can truly be described as having moved from the game’s fringe to its center. As Sean McIndoe, my colleague at Grantland, wrote: In what became known as hockey’s summer of analytics, […]
