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NHL analysis, features & blogs
Tactics · Analysis
Why possession is the hardest thing to measure in hockey
Hockey is fast, continuous and low-scoring, which makes it the sport where the scoreboard tells you least and the underlying numbers matter most.
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The season · Feature
The playoff that changes the sport
Hockey's postseason is not merely a harder version of the regular season. Officiating, tactics and physical tolerance all shift, and the sport that emerges is a different one.
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Tactics · Analysis
Zone entries are where hockey is quietly won
Most of a hockey game is an argument about crossing one blue line with the puck, and how a team chooses to cross it explains almost everything else it does.
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Opinion · Blog
Goaltenders are the most misjudged players in sport
Opinion: we grade goalies on outcomes shaped by the five players in front of them, then treat the resulting numbers as a personality assessment.
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Opinion · Blog
The shootout debate refuses to die, and it should not
Opinion: deciding a team game with a series of individual duels is entertaining, awkward, and never quite settled — because both objections to it are correct.
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Tactics · Analysis
The forecheck is a bet on fatigue, not just pressure
A forecheck looks like aggression aimed at the puck, but its real target is the legs of the defenders who have to keep skating away from it.
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Tactics · Analysis
How to actually read a neutral zone trap
The trap has a bad reputation as boring hockey, but it is one of the clearest systems to watch once you know which gap it is protecting.
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Tactics · Analysis
Why special teams decide more than five-on-five hockey
Power plays and penalty kills take up a fraction of the clock, yet they routinely decide the games that matter most.
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Tactics · Analysis
Line matching is a game played before the game starts
Long before a shift begins, coaches are already fighting over which players will be on the ice against which, and home ice quietly decides who wins that fight.
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Tactics · Analysis
Defensive pairings are built, not simply drafted
A good defence pair is rarely two good defencemen placed together; it is a set of habits two specific people have learned about each other over time.
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Craft · Feature
The butterfly style and the problem it actually solved
Modern goaltending looks nothing like the stand-up style it replaced, and the reason is not fashion but geometry: where shots actually come from.
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The arena · Feature
Ice conditions quietly shape the game you are watching
The same two teams can look completely different depending on how the ice under them behaves, and building good ice is harder than it sounds.
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