I am a fan of the Montreal Canadiens and a hockey analytics buff -- that is, a proponent and student of "fancy stats". I live in Gatineau and write software for a living, which occasionally comes in handy when wrangling masses of hockey data.
It’s probably safe to say that come the trade deadline, the Habs are not going to be where Bergevin expected them to be when he took the job. Oh, of course there were reasons to be optimistic as…Read More
There’s a lot to like about Marc Bergevin’s new administration. There are a number of refreshing changes in the team’s philosophy that he’s rightly getting credit for. Foremost…Read More
Today I’d like to you about a team who, twenty-odd games in the season, was one of the top five-on-five squads in the league. Their strong possession game was reflected in their metrics, and as a…Read More
It wouldn’t be a fandom if there wasn’t something to complain about. With the Habs are sitting pretty at the top of the newspaper standings with a 15-5-4 record, scoring over three goals a…Read More
Marc Bergevin’s first real trade came out of seemingly nowhere, and it wasn’t a minor one, either. He sent the team’s leading goal-scorer of last year for Dallas’s current scoring…Read More
Fully one third of the Habs’ season is in the books already — time flies when you’re…Read More
The old adage says that “it’s better to be lucky than good”. In the context of hockey,…Read More
No numbers in this one. In fact, let’s make this my first thought: this early, with so few games…Read More
It’s now official: P.K. Subban will miss the Habs’ opening game tomorrow, after he and the…Read More
Today, Marc Bergevin told Scott Gomez to stay home and not play, pending an amnesty buyout of his contract…Read More
Having gone over the team’s forwards, let’s continue our post-lockout look at the Montreal…Read More
Fianlly, after 113 days of toil, the NHL lockout is now over! The Habs, along with all the other NHL…Read More
Now that we’ve seen the Habs’ player usage for the whole of the 2007-2008 season,…Read More
As part of the retrospective on the Flyers-Habs 2008 playoffs, let’s delve into the Habs’…Read More
In the last article on the 2008 Flyers-Habs series, we found out that the Habs had a sizable advantage…Read More
There are two competing explanations about why the Flyers defeated the Habs in 2007-2008. The first one…Read More
Time to draw the hypotenuse. I’ve already looked at how Max Pacioretty’s and Erik Cole’s goals…Read More
Having done a similar exercise with Pacioretty, I thought it only natural to go through the same exercise…Read More
This one is going to be much shorter and more unscientific than usual. I apologize for that, but there…Read More
Colby Armstrong was the first UFA signing of Marc Bergevin‘s career as a GM. The Habs signed him…Read More
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