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NHL
9 min
The Lost Step
A veteran loses a step, scouts say. Five seasons of NHL tracking data show top speed holds and distance per game does not.
NHL
11 min
The Momentum Illusion
Carolina scored three goals in 39 seconds and the whole sport called it momentum. We checked 477 playoff goals to see if momentum is real, or just memory.
NHL
7 min
The GSAx Paradox
The analytics community's preferred goaltending metric is less reliable than the one it was designed to improve. 550 consecutive-season pairs across 18 years explain why.
NHL
9 min
The .930 Mirage
1,869 goalie-seasons. 18 years. The year-to-year correlation for save percentage is r = 0.33. Only 11% of the variance is real. The rest is a mirage.
NHL
15 min
The Screening Test
17 drafts. 4,006 picks. One question: how good is the screening decision?
Analysis
10 min
The Restoring Force
What the 180 Seconds After a Goal Against Actually Look Like
2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics
7 min
The Autonomic Frontier
Biathlon’s Hidden Dimension
NHL
5 min
The Colorado Problem
What the Best Team in Hockey Tells Us About the Limits of Any Single Metric
NHL
4 min
The Concentration Trap
Why the NHL's Most Disciplined Offenses Are Its Worst
NHL
6 min