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NHL - Vancouver Canucks will survive their NHL-record road streak just fine,...
The Canucks are in the midst of a 14-game road trip that will keep them away from home ice for six weeks. In the crowded and competitive West, most see this stretch as a huge hurdle for the team, but...
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2010 NHL Playoffs -- Handicapping all 16 teams -- Washington Capitals and...
Puck Prospectus' Tom Awad breaks down the numbers behind the 16 playoff teams to see which teams are favored to hoist the Stanley Cup.
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NHL playoffs 2010 - Tom Awad: Jaroslav Halak was the most valuable player of...
Tom Awad of Puck Prospectus follows up with something he's been doing all year -- Player Power Rankings, or PPR -- for the first round of the playoffs. Somewhat unsurprisingly, Jaroslav Halak was No....
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NHL playoffs 2010 -- Tom Awad: In the quest for the Stanley Cup, how much do...
Old hockey cliche: to win the Cup, you need grinders (see Talbot, Maxime from last season). But how true is this statement? Tom Awad of Puck Prospectus crunches ten years of data to make a determination.
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NHL playoffs 2010 - Tom Awad: Jaroslav Halak remains the top Conn Smythe...
Tom Awad of Puck Prospectus follows up with something he's been doing all year -- Player Power Rankings, or PPR -- for the second round of the playoffs. Somewhat unsurprisingly, Jaroslav Halak remains...
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Stanley Cup finals 2010 - Blackhawks' puck possession skills are a huge...
Eight of the top 12 teams of the past 12 years in the category of 'shot differential' made at least the conference finals. That's an indicator of the importance of the stat (which speaks to puck...
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NHL: Debating Chris Osgood's Hall of Fame credibility
Tom Awad evalutes the case for Chris Osgood to the Hall of Fame. He's got 400 wins, three Cups, and is No. 8 all-time in playoff victories. Will it be enough?
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2011 NHL Playoffs: Analyzing the odds of each playoff team winning the...
Hockey Prospectus analyzes the playoff odds for every team in the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs.
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2011 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs: Carey Price takes early lead in Conn Smythe race
Carey Price leads the first edition of the Conn Smythe watch, a statistical ranking measuring player impact in the playoffs.
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2011 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs: Washington Capitals G Michal Neuvirth climbs...
Michal Neuvirth has risen rapidly up the Conn Smythe Watch, compiled by Hockey Prospectus. But not all names on the list will see Round 2.
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2011 NHL playoffs: Pavel Datsyuk should be considered one of the best players...
Hockey Prospectus examines the career of Pavel Datsyuk and explains why he is currently highly underrated.
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2011 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs: Tampa Bay Lightning G Dwayne Roloson is...
At 41 years of old, Dwayne Roloson has helped lead the Lightning to a 2-0 series lead in Round 2 against the mighty Washington Capitals and leads the current playoff MVP race.
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2011 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs: Tim Thomas moves into second place in Conn...
Tampa Bay's Dwayne Roloson leads the current playoff MVP race, but Boston's Tim Thomas is close behind after dominating the NHL playoffs so far.
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NHL realignment playoff system inherently unfair
Tom Awad of Hockey Prospectus analyzes the NHL's new postseason plan and finds it unfair to teams in the two western conferences, who will have to spend more to compete, face worse odds for playoff...
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Nathan MacKinnon leads the early playoff player rankings - 2014 Stanley Cup...
Tom Awad of Hockey Prospectus shares his first installment of the postseason player rankings of top 10 forwards, top five defensemen and top five goalies. Nathan MacKinnon, Paul Martin and Tuukka Rask...
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Where Pavel Datsyuk ranks among the greats of this generation - NHL
If Pavel Datsyuk's time in the NHL is truly done, where does he rank among the greats of this generation? Tom Awad of Hockey Prospectus dives into the data.
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Jamie Benn, Braden Holtby lead early Conn Smythe Watch - NHL
Tom Awad of Hockey Prospectus ranks the top 10 skaters and top five goalies in the Stanley Cup playoffs thus far by goals versus threshold (GVT).
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San Jose Sharks shedding unfair chokers label - NHL
The Sharks are shedding their label as playoff chokers. But a look at their results during the Joe Thornton era reveals that it was not an accurate description to begin with, per Tom Awad.
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