Evolving Hockey Podcast

Our last episode of 2022 is here! In the first half, we discuss the Rise of Hronek, pronunciation, and the impacts of systems on players. After the break, we banter about Michigan attempts, run through Josh's 2022 year in review, and ponder future contracts. 

We're very excited to have Corey Sznajder, the premier hockey-tracking analyst, on the podcast! Corey has been in the field longer than any other public analyst, which is saying quite a bit. We spent an hour covering his work, trends in the past decade, what he finds interesting in hockey, and the most unique skaters in the league. This was a blast. 

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We have a guest episode scheduled in a few days (!), and with the holidays approaching we kept this one a bit shorter. That said, we discussed the impacts of screen time on sleep, historic games, Columbus, and our new point of focus: scorekeeper bias in the NHL. 

Tage Thompson is at it again. This time, we tried to find comparable players based on his career (so far). In the second half we discussed Ovechkin's pursuit of the all-time empty-net goal record, point streaks, Luongo's bathroom break, and tanking teams. 

All three of us just got back from SEAHAC 2022. We spent the first half recapping the conference, presentations, festivities, and all things related to one of the best conferences any of us have attended. In the second half, we chat about our favorite topic: our early-season NHL awards picks. 

With Thanksgiving only a few days behind us, we took the opportunity to ramble about sleeping habits, league history, rink dimensions, Tage Thompson, some of the philosophical foundations of WAR, and vocabulary. 

The general state of the league was the topic for this episode: tanking teams, the unlikely ascension of the Devils and Bruins, the most "expected" teams/players, and Nick Seeler. In the second half, we had a great conversation about Shawn's recent tracking project and article on the site. 

Despite some technical issues, we all loved this episode. We discuss tracking, zone entries/exits, philosophical questions in modeling hockey, expected goals, over/under-performing teams and players, and Otto McAvoy's new dog food.

This one was all over the place (in a good way). We chat about early season trends, surprising results, particularly bad team and skater performances, Matthew Tkachuk, daylight saving time, SEAHAC, and coffee. 

It's Halloween. Spooky Season. We chat about the release of our EH player evaluation models for the '22-23 season, some (still) surprising teams and players, the history of analytics,  and Matthew McConaughey