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  • Minnesota Frost Late Season Preview: A Clear Path

    Minnesota Frost Late Season Preview: A Clear Path

                   At the IIHF break, the Minnesota Frost find themselves on the outside of a playoff spot, trailing the Ottawa Charge by 1-point. The Frost have had a rollercoaster ride of a season that has seen some great highs (February 8th, 4-0 win at Montréal) but also crushing lows (February 13th, 8-3 Loss at Ottawa)… Read more

  • Boston Fleet Late Season Preview: Fighting Themselves

    Boston Fleet Late Season Preview: Fighting Themselves

                   As we have approached the late season IIHF break in the PWHL, with 3 games remaining for all six clubs, the time has come for a breakdown of the remaining teams, and their outlook for the rest of the season. This will include a look at each team’s statistical play, trends, and an overall… Read more

  • SKA Saint Petersburg vs. Dynamo Moscow, Game 6: The End?

    SKA Saint Petersburg vs. Dynamo Moscow, Game 6: The End?

    Game 6: Sunday, April 6th – SKA Arena SKA 2-5 Dynamo Moscow In a vacuum, this turn of events was fairly surprising on SKA’s part, but it seems to represent how their season and particularly this playoff series in which they were overmatched played out. They were the better team territorially by a significant margin… Read more

  • The little giants: The history of the Acadie–Bathurst Titan, a success story from the CHL’s smallest market

    The little giants: The history of the Acadie–Bathurst Titan, a success story from the CHL’s smallest market

    Upon relocation to Bathurst, Nova Scotia from Laval, Quebec in 1998, the QMJHL franchise known as the Acadie-Bathurst Titan had some gigantic skates to fill. In its previous home, the team had developed the likes of Mario Lemieux, Vincent Damphousse, and Mike Bossy, won four President’s Cups, and made it to one Memorial Cup final.… Read more

  • 2024-2025 NCAA D3 MHKY Skater Model

    2024-2025 NCAA D3 MHKY Skater Model

    It is that time of year again where we release our Bader-inspired NCAA MHKY D3 production model. We’ve integrated every player in the D3 hockey landscape to play 10 or more games this season, pulled a weighted average across the league’s points-per-game rates, and used a yield curve distribution to plot the entire league’s scoring… Read more

  • SKA Saint Petersburg vs. Dynamo Moscow, Games 1-5: Rejoice, but how long?

    SKA Saint Petersburg vs. Dynamo Moscow, Games 1-5: Rejoice, but how long?

    Game 1: Thursday, March 27th Dynamo Moscow 3-1 SKA Game 2: Saturday, March 29th Dynamo Moscow 2-1 SKA (OT) Game 3: Monday, March 31st SKA 5-3 Dynamo Moscow Game 4: Wednesday, April 2nd SKA 4-5 Dynamo Moscow (2OT) Game 5: Friday, April 4th Dynamo Moscow 3-4 SKA (OT) The primary worries for SKA pertaining to… Read more