r/HockeyStats Jun 16 '22

Welcome to Hockey Stats- Relaunched & Now Under New Moderation!

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Hi r/HockeyStats,

I'm happy to let everyone know that this subreddit is under new, active moderation and back in action again, just in time for the Stanley Cup Finals too! This is the first time this place will be running properly in at least a year when the last moderators were active. And as the sub requester and new head mod I'm excited to welcome you back and wanted to share my hopes for this place. A vision that requires your help.

As you may know, hockey as a whole still lacks any significant, dedicated space in which stats and analytics can be discussed in great depth. I think r/HockeyStats can be that place.

That's exactly why I bothered grabbing it off of the inactive heap. This kind of community is currently missing from the hockey landscape and sorely needed. Somewhere that fans, writers, the hockey community, and data pros alike can talk about analytics together.

A dedicated one-stop forum to continue to cater to the ever growing demand for more hockey data. Where people can learn more about analytics, share info with one another, swap favorite resources, ask questions, and generally help advance our knowledge of analytics and promote education on the subject.

So here are the details about the changes this relaunch will bring and some specific plans. As you can already see this included a fresh coat of custom paint for the banner and logo.

The Goals Of This Effort:

-To make analytics more accessible to fans & people outside of academic or coaching backgrounds, while also giving a platform for people already involved in the subject to communicate.

-To allow for analytics content, ideas, and links to be shared more freely.

-Offer a like-minded community: where no one has to argue the value of analytics as we’re already on the same page in support of them.

-Promote expanded looks at areas that are currently less followed in stat analysis like minor leagues, overseas leagues, & prospects.

Specific Plans To Reach These Goals:

-Give the sub a cosmetic facelift with a new design & custom graphics. (Done.)

-Establish rules for an welcoming and functional community where discourse is healthy. (Done.)

-Arrange topic tags by events, leagues, and teams so specific analytics and posts on one subject are easily found by readers. (Pending.)

-Gather analytics resources to share as a permanent Wiki fixture on the sub. (Pending.)

-Contact some moderators or prominent contributors other hockey subreddits to try to involve the rest of the hockey Reddit community in this revival process & to recruit more moderators from those subs to ensure Hockey Stats has multiple active mods.

-Encourage sub traffic through hockey sub cross-posting and introductory posts on cooperating subs.

-Work on sub events and projects to attract new activity and members.

-Reach out to prominent people in the analytics community to invite them to come join the sub & to feel free to share their work here.

-Sub Event & Project Ideas:

-Provide data for specific team's and leagues in a searchable format by tags.

-Develop special r/HockeyStats data projects for the sub like analytics previews of free agency, season team previews, & traded acquisitions information.

-Build in-house sub resources like an r/HockeyStats analytics Wiki fixture which can feature FAQs, resource directories, terminology, intro to analytics, etc.

-Host AMAs with hockey writers, team staffers, hockey data analysts, and analytics-influenced coaches.

-Hold live community event chats during the trade deadline, free agency, and the upcoming NHL draft to discuss subjects in real time.

-Start sub giveaways- of related materials: hockey analytics books, analytics site subscriptions, hockey news site subscriptions, some analytics sub swag, and traditional hockey merch as provided by partner companies.

Plan timeline:

The goal was to get the sub running for the Stanley Cup Finals to reintroduce it by focusing on statistical looks at each team & game individually. Beyond the Finals, the off-season provides us with ample time to begin to grow the sub again while also showcasing the 2 of the biggest events of the year the draft and free agency. And we hope to be running full steam ahead, like clockwork by the time the 2022/23 season begins in October.

So Who Is This Guy?

Now, I fully admit I'm not an analytics expert. I’ll never claim to be. I'm just a huge fan with an endless curiosity to learn more about hockey. Analytics have opened up a fascinating new world to learn more about that. So I may not be a mathematician or stats grad but I can certainly try to help steward a platform for those people and others to join in conversation about this topic.

I feel I can facilitate that role from not just from my deep appreciation for analytics but my background in hockey, contacts in the sport, & my existing experience moderating here on Reddit. I covered the Penguins and the NHL as a freelance writer for my college paper then multiple hockey websites from 2008-2017. Plus I’ve been the head mod for the sub r/filmtheory since 2020, which has 17,000 members.

I think you're in okay hands with me. But I'm prepared to prove it rather than simply say it.

As for now enjoy our content on the Avalanche vs. Lighting Finals series. I'm taking the Avs in 6.


r/HockeyStats 3d ago

Charts: The growing Indian-origin representation in the NHL

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r/HockeyStats 6d ago

NHL I built an interactive line combo tool

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As a Kings fan I’ve been wondering what the team would look like post Kopi and into the retirement home era.

On top of that I have always felt that all these analytics websites aren’t super interactive and were kinda fed what they tell us.

So I built a tool that allows you to set lines for all the teams in the league and it uses the nhl play by play data to build how successful a team will be based on those lineups. As those lines change the teams rating will be impacted live. For example, If you pull McDavid out of the lineup you’ll see a steep decline for the oilers.

I will fully admit my player ratings calculations need some work but I’ll tune over the off season to improve it. Looking for any feedback(here or in the contact us section on the website.

(It isn’t fully optimized on mobile so definitely recommend taking a look on desktop.)


r/HockeyStats 6d ago

Hockey

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All-Time Hockey #19 — 76-4-2 (A)
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r/HockeyStats 7d ago

Day 5 - NHL 2025-2026 Skaters Leaderboard vs Teams (CBJ)

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r/HockeyStats 7d ago

Day 5 - NHL 2025-2026 Goalies Leaderboard vs Teams (CBJ)

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r/HockeyStats 8d ago

2026-27 NHL Top Goal Scorer Projections

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I’ve put together a list of the top six projected goal scorers for the 2026-27 season (generated by my own model). It’s mostly names that you would expect:
- Nathan MacKinnon
- Cole Caufield
- Wyatt Johnston
- Macklin Celebrini
- Connor McDavid
- Jason Robertson

The more interesting thing is that the model is predicting only MacKinnon to score 40 goals, but that’s because the projection is a player’s median (I.e. 50th percentile) outcome. This is why the projections also provide a floor (10th percentile) and ceiling (90th percentile) outcome for each player. If we add up all the individual probabilities the model actually expects 12 players to hit 40 goals.

If you’re interested in the details you can find the full article here - https://open.substack.com/pub/ocelotanalytics/p/2026-27-fantasy-projections-top-goal


r/HockeyStats 8d ago

Oilers Top Point Leaders

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r/HockeyStats 9d ago

Day 4 - NHL 2025-2026 Goalies Leaderboard vs Teams (CAR)

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r/HockeyStats 9d ago

Day 4 - NHL 2025-2026 Skaters Leaderboard vs Teams (CAR)

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r/HockeyStats 10d ago

Day 3 - NHL 2025-2026 Leaderboard vs Teams (BUF)

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Skaters

Goalies

Source


r/HockeyStats 11d ago

Team stats before game

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Hey all, I did some browsing on the internet and figured I'd ask here. Does anyone know where I can find a teams statistics (faceoff%, hits, etc) before each game? Not sure if thay question makes sense, but I mean I'd like to look at say, the Bruins' faceoff% before they played a certain game. I know it's very easy to find season totals and whatnot, but I'm looking for season totals that THAT POINT in the season (if that makes sense). Let me know if someone has this data somewhere or if there is a website to download it. Thank you!


r/HockeyStats 11d ago

Day 2 - NHL 2025-2026 Leaderboard vs Teams (BOS)

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Skaters

https://puckprime.com/players/advanced-stats/opponent-team?position=skaters&sort=P&dir=desc&opp=BOS

Goalies

https://puckprime.com/players/advanced-stats/opponent-team?position=goalies&sort=W&dir=desc&opp=BOS

r/HockeyStats 12d ago

Day 1 - NHL 2025-2026 Leaderboard vs Teams (ANA)

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Hey everyone, I know things are pretty quiet right now, but I'll do my best to keep this group active. I'll be posting a daily Top 10 player leaderboard against a specific team. Kicking things off today with the Anaheim Ducks. Hope you enjoy!

Skaters

https://puckprime.com/players/advanced-stats/opponent-team?position=skaters&sort=P&dir=desc

Goalies

https://puckprime.com/players/advanced-stats/opponent-team?position=goalies&sort=W&dir=desc

r/HockeyStats 13d ago

Revisiting 2023 NHL Draft following Leo Carlsson contract news

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With the recent Leo Carlsson news, I thought it'd be worth taking another look at the top 4 picks from that NHL draft.

Two things stand out to me here. First, Connor Bedard is going to cash in as well (duh). Second, don't sleep on Will Smith.

https://puckprime.com/players/compare/8484144-8484153-8484166-8484227/trend

r/HockeyStats 15d ago

NHL Core Production — 2025-2026 season

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Following my post yesterday, I thought why not sharing the whole thing..

So here's the table showing each team's core production in points.

And this table shows each team's core production as a percentage of their team's total.

What's clear here is that a strong core might get you into the playoffs, but teams need more depth if they want to go far. Just look at the Canes or the Golden Knights.


r/HockeyStats 15d ago

Created a site and API for my xG model

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Hello All! I've worked on this for a while now but finally nailed down the site and output. I have an expected goals model that I wanted to utilize for easy stat collection and analysis, like on-ice xG For and against. Project 94 Hockey is live with an API and some pages/charts, continuing to add features everyday!

www.project94hockey.com


r/HockeyStats 15d ago

Montreal's core ranks 4th in the NHL by production — and it's the youngest of the top 5

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edit: Reupload top5 table


r/HockeyStats 20d ago

Maple Leafs [StatsCentre] The Top-7 Most All-Time Regular Season Wins by an NHL Goalie

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r/HockeyStats 21d ago

[Sportsnet Stats] Top-5 teams in most money spent on UFAs on July 1, 2026

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r/HockeyStats 20d ago

NHL Aging Curves

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r/HockeyStats 20d ago

Question: Where is a good place to look up average strength of opposition and average strength of linemate?

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Alternatively, any suggestions on how I might go about calculating these stats on my own?


r/HockeyStats 22d ago

Working on some stuff in Hockey analytics, would appreciate feedback :)

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r/HockeyStats 23d ago

NHL Working on a model. Early results are promising

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Hello everyone,

Over the past while I’ve been working on a model that uses raw NHL API data to compute all my own stats, then feeds the data into an xG model, and finally uses it to generate player ratings/team ratings/fantasy projections/matchup probabilities.

I am continually tinkering with the xG model. As it currently stands I’ve achieved a 0.78 AUC… looking at the other publically available information it seems like I’m getting pretty close to the ceiling of what is possible with our player/puck tracking but that won’t stop me from looking for further improvements.

The player ratings us RAPM and ultimately provide a GAR/xGAR output. Everything else builds off this, including the team strength ratings.

The game prediction engine uses team attack/defence ratings to build a Poisson grid, which is then used to determine win probabilities. It also considers several other factors (rest, travel, strength aware OT resolution) to improve its accuracy. To test the accuracy I’ve benchmarked the outputs against the market and backtests show a positive ROI, so I’m pretty happy with its performance.

Fantasy projections are also a big part of the tool. I use per-60 rates with aging curves and projected games played/ice time to forecast players counting stats. It also includes a VORP calculator to translate the projections into a draft ranking.

I’ve posted a more detailed introduction to the model here - https://open.substack.com/pub/danbrousseau/p/the-ocelot-project

Now that I have the tool in a useable state my plan is to start sharing insights and outputs from the model with the goal of helping out my fellow hockey fans and (hopefully) getting some feedback that will help me further improve the model.

PS - I realize that this is a brand new account. I just created it to avoid doxing my main account.


r/HockeyStats 25d ago

NHL [London Knights] 58 years in a row the London Knights have had a player drafted - longest streak of any hockey program

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