Category: NHL Statistics and Analytics

NHL Power Rankings: Still too early but we’re renegades so let’s do it

By loserpoints | Oct 17th 2019 | 5 min read |

NHL power rankings: you love ‘em, I love ‘em, everyone loves ‘em. Give human beings a bunch of the same type of thing and we will try to put the...

Andrei Vasilevskiy’s new contract with the Lightning is a big deal

By Justin G. | Jul 29th 2019 | 7 min read |

The Tampa Bay Lightning gave us a Monday whopper with an early contract extension for Andrei Vasilevskiy. I had hoped that he might sign for a little ...

NHL teams would rather pay for points than wins

By loserpoints | Jul 23rd 2019 | 8 min read |

Last week, Evan Rodrigues of the Buffalo Sabres received an arbitration award of $2 million for next season from an arbitrator. The team offered a one...

The Phil Kessel Situation: When new metrics challenge what we thought we knew

By loserpoints | Jun 4th 2019 | 8 min read |

The Penguins are trying to trade Phil Kessel. They’ve made no secret of that. Even going so far as to leak that he that nixed a trade to the Minneso...

Nikita Kucherov will win the Hart Trophy but he probably shouldn’t

By loserpoints | Apr 8th 2019 | 10 min read |

If I had a Hart Trophy ballot and had to cast it today, my top two picks would be Mark Stone and Sidney Crosby. I might consider a third place vote fo...

Tampa Bay Lightning Ten Game Report: Wrapping up the regular season

By loserpoints | Apr 4th 2019 | 6 min read |

The Tampa Bay Lighting have played 80 games this season. They’ve won 60 of them. That’s quite something. The completion of the 80th game means tha...

The 2018-2019 Tampa Bay Lightning are arguably the most dominant team in NHL history

By loserpoints | Mar 28th 2019 | 5 min read |

The Tampa Bay Lightning are having one of the best seasons in NHL history. By now, most hockey fans are aware of that. The Bolts are currently chasing...

Andrei Vasilevskiy’s case for the Vezina Trophy

By Matthew Esteves | Mar 27th 2019 | 6 min read |

With two weeks left in the NHL regular season, it’s time to take a look at some of the Lightning stars and see if any of them can bring in some indi...

The emergence of Erik Cernak: So much for that hole on the blue line

By loserpoints | Mar 20th 2019 | 6 min read |

The biggest reason the Tampa Bay Lightning have morphed into a juggernaut this year is the front office’s success in remaking the blue line over the...

Anthony Cirelli deserves Selke Trophy votes

By loserpoints | Mar 4th 2019 | 6 min read |

Tampa Bay Lightning rookie forward Anthony Cirelli deserves votes for the NHL’s Selke Trophy. Yes, I’m serious. Since that might seem a little spi...