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The Week Ahead looks at the Winter Classic between Chicago and St. Louis and much more. Continue to Article

December 30, 2016 12:24:pm EST

Less than a decade ago, the hockey analytics community was centered on a handful of blogs and data-scraping websites. Today the field is far more diverse, with people of differing background and experience contributing new ideas and an increasing amount of overlap between the numbers people and the professional hockey men at the top of the NHL food-chain. The explosion in the field over the last 10 years, along with the steadily increasing number of top contributors disappearing into NHL organizations make it difficult to offer a capsule summary of everything that’s going on across the league. Continue to Article

December 30, 2016 11:00:am EST

As you know, Puck Daddy has been running top 10 lists that chronicle anything and everything in the world of hockey in 2016. Thus, we bring you the annual Alternative Year in Hockey Awards, a somewhat silly but sometimes serious but mostly silly look back at the year that was. The AHL team won the first hockey title for the city since 1964, and then graduated a few players to a Columbus Blue Jackets team that was the best in the NHL entering the new year. Continue to Article

December 30, 2016 8:53:am EST

Puck Daddy cast its net far and wide for the greatest hockey goals of 2016, and found more than a few outside the NHL. Some things were clear from this year’s ranking: That there’s a ton of young talent in the hockey world scoring highlight-reel goals, and that many of them are property of the Toronto Maple Leafs. As we noted at the time, it wasn’t the first time he went all Mike Legg on an opposing goalie. Continue to Article

December 28, 2016 10:00:am EST