Evolving Hockey Podcast

It's an Emergency Podcast! Not really, but Bo Horvat happened to be traded 20 minutes before we started recording, so it's an emergency. We chat about the trade, cover a few league happenings, and combine All Star Rosters and Awards analysis in the second half. 

The past week was a lot of not good news. We cover a few of the items in question in the first half, along with some general good old fashioned trivia to start. In the second half we revisit our predictions from last week, and spend some time discussing shot data in general. 

We're halfway through the season, which means it's time for a full midseason recap episode! In the first half we discuss struggling teams (Canucks, Senators), the Kraken's recent success, and Matt Boldy. In the second half we dig into the playoff landscape. 

We're back after a short break! While things are heating up in the NHL, we're focused on the continuing tank efforts from teams across the league. We also spent quite a bit of time trying to diagnose the Panthers issues, and discussed the Hughes brothers. 

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.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShutdownLine...

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 

We're a little late this week, but we've officially moved on to week three of the '22-23 NHL season. We chat about our initial impressions of the young season, discuss the surprise teams (among 7 games), cover some interesting teammate data, and try hard not to deride Shawn for his lack of Coen Brothers knowledge. 

The first week of the '22-23 NHL regular season is now complete, and I think we're all just a *little* bit excited. We discuss some very early trends around the league, rookies, cover seemingly every team in the league, and Josh and Luke convert back into premier Wild fans. Plus quite a bit of rambling and nonsense. 

The '22-23 NHL regular season technically began a few days ago, but for most people it starts today. With Shawn back in his host chair, we chat about the beginning of another regular season, our early off-the-board predictions, and spend too much time discussing liquid intake. 

Shawn is on vacation, so Josh and Luke decided they'd try an episode without our host. It went surprisingly well in our opinion (don't ask Shawn what he thinks). Our team point projections for the NHL season went live yesterday. We spent the episode discussing them along with other NHL regular season eve items. 

Again, there isn't much going on, but we found plenty to talk about. We chat about Hockey (in the abstract), pace of play, the "final" review of our contract projection model for the 2022 offseason, general grievances, and coffee. 

We released our our fantasy projections for the '22-23 NHL season yesterday, but we also made plenty of time to ramble about random nonsense, J.T. Miller and Tage Thompson, the MN State Fair, and Milk. We then spent the entire second half covering our newly released projections! 

It's the end of August, and absolutely nothing is going on. We spent 40 minutes rambling even more than usual about the very few remaining free agents, Jason Robertson, projections and early expectations for next season, and corn (it's a little complicated).

We're officially one month into NHL free agency. Not only that, but Josh wrote a review for the site covering the last month! We chat about the contents of said review, general salary trends, annoying contracts, month rankings (yes), and RStudio themes.  Check out the article here: https://evolving-hockey.com/blog/2022-nhl-free-agency-a-review/

Mike Murphy, one of the absolute best people in hockey, joined us for a special guest episode.  We talked with Mike about women's hockey, the current evolving environment in the game, contracts, and of course stats among numerous other topics. This was easily one of our favorite episodes! 

We may not have had as many signings, but the second week of NHL free agency proved to be possibly more interesting. We spent 75 minutes discussing everything that's happened since our last episode: Laine/Bjorkstrand, Tkachuk, and shenanigans. 

We're one week into NHL free agency for 2022. A lot has happened, and possibly even more hasn't. We spent the entire episode discussing the first week, the current free agency environment, and our contract projection model.