Monthly Archive: March 2014

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Sin Bin: Ales Hemsky Makes Moves

Ales Hemsky left at least three Tampa Bay Lightning players questioning their existence last night. Possibly more for those on the ice who witnessed Hemsky’s glorious drag and move to get the goal. Watch as Radko Gudas loses his jock, Matthew Carle fails to get an ounce of leverage, and...

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Fancy Stats: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

I have a love-hate relationship with statistics. I always did well in statistics classes, and have excelled at applying and developing ways to measure business performance in my career. But statistics for me can be frustratingly inexact. You attempt to find correlation in data sets that appear disparate in order...

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Sin Bin: What’s Going On in Vancouver?

The Canucks have had a rough go of it lately. Roberto Luongo has left town, and there were rumors Ryan Kesler wanted out as well. Now Kesler is out for a few weeks after his knee was injured in a knee-on-knee collision with Jim Slater [CBSSports]. To make matters worse,...