After three seemingly never ending nights without hockey, the playoffs are finally upon us, with the Habs and Sens, and Caps and Isles set to kick off the postseason tonight at 7. As in years past I’m going to be…
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Puck++ Playoff Prediction Challenge
Do you like the playoffs? Do you like predicting things? And do you think the NHL’s claim that SAP has a guy who can get 85% of playoff series right is a bit unbelievable? Then do we here at Puck++ have…
Round 2 Preview and Round 1 Review
The second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs begin tonight (in 37 minutes at the moment I started writing this, to be precise), and after an exciting first round it’s nice not to have to wait even one night to…
2014 Playoff Predictions
Tomorrow night marks the start of the NHL playoffs and so to continue an annual tradition (once is a tradition, right?) I’ve put together the World Famous PuckPlusPlus Playoff Prediction Preview (hurray, alliteration). In the lockout shortened season, our model…
Save % Variance and Updated Predictions
Goaltender Game by Game Save % One of the things I’ve been interested in looking at is the idea of game-by-game goaltender save percentage. One of the problems, in my view, with save percentage as a metric is that it…
(Belated) Playoff Predictions
So now that the playoffs are already one game in, it would seem like a good time to post predictions right? Luckily, none of my predictions look too far off so far, although there’s still lots of time for things…
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