Evolving-Hockey

THE NHL SEASON STARTS TOMORROW! Our Team Projections for the '26-27 season are now updated. Like every year, we wrote some stuff about it and also made some handy tables to set expectations. As always, have fun but be safe. Projections: evolving-hockey.com/stats/team_p...

PSA: the site was temporarily offline tonight due to some hectic updates to deal with the recent PHP security issue patches. Everything should be fine now, but we may have some intermittent outages in the early mornings over the next few days for maintenance. Just wanted to let everyone know!

Week 3 of the '26-27 NHL season is in the books! We spent the first half discussing the goalie mindset, documentaries, football, and falling attendance numbers. Later we talked national anthems, shots from behind the net, and early GAR predictions. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

It's still too early to say anything about whether your favorite team is good or bad. That said, we still tried. In the first half we discussed the Flyers, coaching media tactics, and fantasy letdowns. Later, we talked bad teams, early standouts, and the X-Files. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

I don't think it's fair that none of our social media accounts have ever been verified on any social media platform. We're a small little hockey stats website business, but I want that blue check mark god dammit!

The first week of the '26-27 NHL season is in the books, and as is tradition it's too early to say anything conclusive. Instead, we chatted about Vince Dunn, broadcasts, concession food, David Lynch, and vibes. In the second half we talked exclusively about xG. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

Our team projections are now updated for the '26-27 NHL season, and the article is up on the site! We spent the entire episode discussing the model, the league environment, each division, and every team (I think). You've never heard us talk about hockey this much. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

The season starts in six days. We're too early for our annual season preview episode, so we thought we'd wrap up the summer properly before we get to that. We discussed recent contracts, fantasy, initial contract analysis, extensions, bowling, and 1.5x listening. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

The theme of this episode is goalies. Things got really messy. I suppose that makes *a lot* of sense. Between all of that we talked about the perfect replacement level team, unexplained phenomenons, plants, fasting, and Dennis Quaid. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

It's time for us to start talking about hockey again (even if we spent 15 minutes talking about the MN State Fair). We spent the first half discussing our recently released fantasy projections and then moved on to Cale Makar and team construction questions. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

## Announcement ## Fantasy Projections for the '26-27 NHL season are now up on the site! Please reference the Glossary link below for more info on how to use the tool. As always, have fun! Projections: evolving-hockey.com/stats/fantas... Glossary: evolving-hockey.com/glossary/fan...

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The Twins are back from vacation, and nothing is going on. It's all vibes. We spent the first half discussing pseudoscientific managerial assessment tools and prospect evaluation questions. Later, we pondered the Leo Carlsson offersheet and native thistles. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

We've been doing this for almost five years, and this episode is the most "offseason" episode we've ever recorded. We spent the first half talking about native plants (I'm not kidding), and the second half discussing ophthalmology and preseason hockey. Hell yeah. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

It's been 19 days (it was supposed to be 14), but we're back in full offseason mode. We spent the entire episode covering the important things that happened in July such as: Legoland, Air Bud, Jason Bourne, depressing jigsaw puzzles (and I guess some hockey). www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

What the f*ck. The first week of NHL Free Agency is always the most active, and 2026 gave us some absolute bangers. We spent the entire episode covering as much of it as we could fit in (or remember). www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

Free agency starts tomorrow! Our full preview article is up on the site. It's time. We spent the entire episode covering all things free agency. That's it. That's why we get up in the morning. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

Evolving Hockey Free Agency Preview Time! It's 2026. The free agency class sucks. Let's find some value! evolving-hockey.com/blog/evolvin...

## Announcement ## GAR Projections for the '26-27 NHL season are now updated for pro subscribers on the site. Check 'em out: evolving-hockey.com/stats/player...

It's officially the offseason, and the EH Podcast's transition was messy. We spent the first bit discussing (the twins') football ignorance while understanding football analytics. Later we analyzed all the trades and contracts your heart could desire. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

The Carolina Hurricanes are your 2026 Stanley Cup Champions! We spent the whole episode analyzing what went right for the Canes, Vegas, and the playoffs overall. Within that, we reminisced about hockey stats history and its evolution. This one was fun! www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

And with that our daily updates for the 25-26 NHL season are complete! We hope you've enjoyed the ride, and now on to free agency and (for us a lot of) off-season work!

ICYMI: here’s our 2026 Stanley Cup Finals preview!

Game 1 of the 2026 Stanley Cup Finals is here!

It's time. The 2026 Stanley Cup Final starts today, and we spent the first 10 minutes discussing the Jurassic Park franchise and sports movies. Once the important things were necessarily covered, we talked Hockey for the rest of the episode (I promise)! www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

The Haters Final Begins! Let's Hate. Or I guess cheer for one of the teams. Whatever you want to do. Our preview is up! evolving-hockey.com/blog/evolvin...

Colorado may get swept (they did, but we didn't know it at the time), and Carolina's quantity-domination's resulted in shaky outcomes. We spent the whole episode analyzing everything like only we can (talking about pickup kickball and the Staals). www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

2026 NHL CONFERENCE FINALS It's time. The four teams we all expected. evolving-hockey.com/blog/evolvin...

We had some severe scheduling issues over the last three weeks, but we're finally back! We spent the first half discussing the second round and professional bowling. Later we dug into our contract model and the upcoming offseason. It's good to be back. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

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ICYMI: our contract projections for the 2026 NHL offseason are up on the site! Check ‘em out!

## Announcement ## Contract projections for the 2026 NHL offseason are now live on the site for Pro subscribers! We also wrote a little article about the updates this year. Have fun! Projections: evolving-hockey.com/stats/contra... Updates: evolving-hockey.com/blog/contrac...

Apologies again, but we had to delay the release of our contract projections. After some double-checking, we felt it necessary to ensure our understanding of the new CBA was correct (mainly, when the new max term limits go into effect). We're hoping to have them out tomorrow morning.

PSA: We’re planning to release our contract projections for the 2026 NHL offseason either Monday or Tuesday this coming week (May 11/12th). We’re working on finalizing them right now and should have a short article on the site (and a post here) when they’re up!

The Avs posted almost 0.5 more xG in the first period tonight than the Habs had in their entire game an hour ago. The Wild weren't actually that far off either. Hockey.

Not very often you see a team win any game (let alone game 7 on the road) with a single-digit shot total. The shot attempts were actually much closer (50-42 in TB's favor), but the xG differential here mirrors what the game looked like. The disparity in shot locations between each team is wild.

The Colorado Avalanche and Minnesota Wild are 1st and 2nd, respectively, in EV goal differential per 60 (score adjusted) through the first round of 25-26 playoffs - this very likely won't change. They'll meet in the second round and got there in wildly different ways.