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The state of the blog
Bit of a tough post to write. What's been funny the past few weeks is that, when I talk to people about the work I'm doing covering the Leafs, one of the questions I often get is: "What about the blog...
FTR's top commenters
SB Nation dropped its writers a note today with some blog statistics for 2009, and included in that was a list of the top commenters for every site on the network. Here are From The Rink's: Most Activ...
West pummelling the East
There's a lot of excitement here in Toronto these days over the fact the Leafs are "just four points" from eighth place heading into tonight's game against the Senators. Problem being, if you look cl...
A beginner's guide to the new stats
Way back in mid-August I posted about some of hockey's 'new' stats, a piece that drew a ton of commentary from within the blogosphere. The follow-up was intended to be a list of "10 key new metrics yo...
The NHL's top defensive defencemen
As with the top defensive forwards list, this is the same Rod Langway Award business I've been putting out for a couple years now. It ranks players defensively based on (a) quality of competition at e...
The NHL's top defensive forwards
We're about far enough into the season that we can start to look at some individual stats and have enough of a sample size to draw some conclusions. This list is the same one I've been churning out fo...
The Flyers goaltending: Not as bad as you think (and other netminding myths)
Mr. Ray Emery. The troubled soul. And, along with Brian Boucher, the latest in a long line of Flyers netminders that has tried to take over the No. 1 job in Philadelphia and do away with the stigma th...
Putting your faith in the 'new' stats
Received a great email a little while back asking about some of the relatively unheralded statistical work going on in hockey: Hi James: I've been trying to read up on some of the new (at least new ...
2008-09 season in review stats pack
Well, it's mid-July so that means season in review season for me. I generally do some work for a few magazines and annuals around now, including the McKeen's Hockey Yearbook, and as part of that, I pu...
How hard is it to win the Stanley Cup?
The best posts always start with a question or questions that I don't know the answer to, and this one began with a few doozies: How many players win the Stanley Cup anyway? Has that number changed, o...
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