Author: Clare Austin

Meandering musings from the depths of the NHL offseason

By Clare Austin | Feb 20th 2019 | 8 min read |

There are times when it’s really hard to come up with things to write here. There are any number of small topics, but nothing that really deserv...

Acknowledging Martin St. Louis is the right thing to do

By Clare Austin | Nov 24th 2014 | 3 min read |

I feel like I should start this off by noting that I still have a lot of anger towards Martin St. Louis for the way he left the Lightning. The man I l...

Evgeni Nabokov bucks recent trends in goaltending

By Clare Austin | Nov 8th 2014 | 6 min read |

I’ve sometimes talked about how strange Evgeni Nabokov is in net and more than one person has been confused by this admittedly vague description. Ba...

Lightning Numbers: Adjusting for score effects, the impact of injured blueliners, and new goaltending stats

By Clare Austin | Oct 22nd 2014 | 9 min read |

This is as good a time as any to take a baseline picture of the Lightning’s #fancystats. It’s very early to be drawing a lot of conclusion...

Anne Schleper's day with the Lightning needs to be just a beginning

By Clare Austin | Oct 14th 2014 | 6 min read |

The Tampa Bay Lightning have a history of breaking ground–of a kind–with women athletes. To this day Manon Rheaume remains the only woman ...

Toronto Maple Leafs claim Richard Panik off of waivers

By Clare Austin | Oct 9th 2014 | 2 min read |

We knew it was possible, even likely, but the news came today that the Richard Panik did not make it through the waiver process unclaimed. He’ll...

2014-15 Tampa Bay Lightning season predictions

By Clare Austin | Oct 3rd 2014 | 7 min read |

It’s rather odd for me to be writing about predictions for the upcoming season. I don’t like making them as a general rule. I don’t ...

It's still okay for an NHL team to draft goaltenders

By Clare Austin | Sep 1st 2014 | 14 min read |

For some time now, a number of people have been making the argument that it is a waste of resources for NHL teams to draft goaltenders, and to some ex...

Beginner's guide to surviving without Extra Skater

By Clare Austin | Aug 21st 2014 | 10 min read |

Over the past two years, ExtraSkater.com has been an invaluable resource in helping people find and use hockey #fancystats. Sadly, if you go there tod...

The Lightning's less than successful record with developing goalies

By Clare Austin | Aug 12th 2014 | 10 min read |

The Tampa Bay Lightning’s Andrey Vasilevskiy was named by ESPN’s Corey Pronman as the top NHL goalie prospect for this year [paywall, but ...