Ah, Saint Patrick’s Day. The yearly event where numerous sects of Christianity celebrate the feast of one Saint Patrick, the 5th century Christian missionary charged with converting the Irish pagans and driving snakes out of Ireland (lol OK). The day is filled with all kinds of traditional celebrations such as drinking too much with your…
Microstat Tracking is a new feature that attempts to quantify the performance of the Philadelphia Flyers in the offensive, neutral and defensive zones. All statistics are manually tracked by Charlie O’Connor. The last round of metrics can be found here. It’s been a while, so for your reading and research’s pleasure, here are the updated…
Four days ago, the Flyers faced off against the Tampa Bay Lightning and completely blitzed them almost right from the start, sending consistent pressure all game and more than doubling the reigning Eastern Conference champions in shots on goal in one of their most dominant performances of the season. Tonight, the Flyers and Lightning played…
With the Philadelphia Flyers on an 8-2-1 run over their last eleven games, the last thing that fans want to see is an injury that could rock the boat and weaken the team’s depth. This afternoon, they were given a bit of a scare after Anthony Mingioni of Center Ice Philly noticed a surprise call-up…
Over the past month, the Philadelphia Flyers have performed like a true contender. Their 8-2-2 record has kept them in the thick of the playoff race, and the team’s underlying even strength metrics have gone through the roof at the same time. It’s been the rare run from a previously-mediocre club that doesn’t seem to…
In their biggest game of the year, the Philadelphia Flyers came out swinging. That stellar first period proved just enough to give the team the win that they desperately needed. Trailing the Detroit Red Wings by three points in the standings entering tonight’s game, the Flyers outshot them 23-3 in the first period en route…
On Tuesday night, the Flyers grabbed the inside track for the final spot in the Eastern Conference’s final playoff spot by roaring out to a dominant start and hanging on from there to pick up a key win. Tonight, in a game against the reigning Stanley Cup champions, they followed a bit of the opposite…
Over the past few years, the hockey analytics community has begun to embrace the usefulness of data visualization in presenting statistical concepts in user-friendly, easy-to-understand ways. Analysts like Micah Blake McCurdy, Carolyn Wilke and Sean Tierney have become essential follows on Twitter for their unique methods of presenting data. Since the start of the season,…
Yesterday we walked through how an NHL expansion draft might work, according to rules that were made public at the NHL’s annual spring general managers meeting this week. Most of it is pretty straight forward: in the event of expansion there will be a draft, teams can lose one player for each of the expansion…
At the start of the 2015-16 NHL season, Shayne Gostisbehere’s future was still in question. He had failed to break with the Flyers out of training camp, and was starting the second year of his entry-level contract. Without a strong sophomore season at the pro level, Gostisbehere’s stock as a prospect would most likely fall…