hockey
Bad news for most NHLers—you have a very short time to make your mark. A new study out of UBC, set to be published in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports, has found that performance peaks for forwards between twenty-seven and twenty-eight, defensemen peak between twenty-eight and twenty-nine, and … Read More
Wear a dark coloured jersey and get ready to reap more penalty minutes, according to a new study. Published in Social Psychological & Personality Science, researchers found that hockey teams wearing dark jerseys were more likely to be penalized. Researchers analysed 50,000 NHL games over a quarter of a century. … Read More
Once upon a time, hockey enforcers were essential to the game. Now, thanks to analytics, they matter less and less. [youtube width=”640″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jygko4bXH0I[/youtube]
Or, as the Americans call it, “sled hockey”. Does that really look like a sled, Americans? [youtube width=”640″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gsy9Som_xs[/youtube]
Hard to believe these guys once had an empire. [youtube width=”640″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqkvSUNfZFk[/youtube]
