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The then and now: The greatest Victoria Royals team of the past and what’s at stake for the current team
Without question and no matter the what ending ends up being, the 2024–25 Victoria Royals campaign has been their best since they finished top of the WHL regular season standings in the 2015–16 season. They started the year strong primarily on the backs of C Cole Reschny (2025 NHL Entry Draft) and D Keaton Verhoeff… Read more
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KHL updates: 7 of possible 10 for SKA as they conclude regular season
Game 64: Tuesday, March 11th SKA Saint Petersburg 3-1 Dinamo Minsk Game 65: Friday, March 14th SKA Saint Petersburg 2-0 HC Sochi Game 66: Tuesday, March 18th SKA Saint Petersburg 4-2 Traktor Chelyabinsk Game 67: Thursday, March 20th SKA Saint Petersburg 2-3 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg (SO) Game 68: Saturday, March 22nd SKA Saint Petersburg 3-2 Traktor… Read more
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2024-2025 Women’s NC Championship Primer
On Sunday, March 23rd, 2025, the top-ranked Wisconsin Badgers will face the second-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes for the National Collegiate (NC) Women’s Ice Hockey Championship. To get here, Wisconsin posted a blistering 37-1-2 record this season with their crowning achievement(s), so far, were defeating Minnesota 4-3 on March 8th to win the WCHA, and again… Read more
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Prospects to Know: Who is… Logan Hawery?
In a pivot from my usual activity pertaining to prospect profiles as of late, I return with a profile on a 2008-born prospect who is eligible for the 2026 NHL Entry Draft. As of right now, he is not a sought after prospect for his class, but I think that his play and the esteem… Read more
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2024-2025 NCAA Women’s Ice Hockey D3 GSAA Model
I know that I was a little late getting the Women’s Hockey data out this season (an hour or so behind the men) but thanks to a huge increase in data reporting in the 2024-25 season, I could run this report this year, as opposed to 2023-24 when the data reporting only gave me about… Read more
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2024-2025 NCAA Men’s Ice Hockey D3 GSAA Model
With the completion of the Conference Playoffs, the time has finally come for the first half of our D3 Hockey analytics summaries. With the total number of games to be played the rest of the season, the average save percentages of of 100+ goalies is unlikely to change in the next month (as opposed to… Read more