NHL. IIHF. US Junior Hockey. Atlantic Junior Hockey League. NHL : Puck Daddy - Yahoo! Sports Blog. Dallas Stars GM vs. the reliability of NHL stats Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy1 day ago There isn’t much common ground between those at the forefront of the analytics movement and those who bemoan their value, outside of a mutual disrespect.
But they’ve always agreed on one aspect of advanced stats in the NHL, which is that the data produced is only going to be as good as the data analyzed. Hockey is a subjective sport, from the League determining supplemental discipline to referees defining penalties to official scorers defining what consitutes a shot.
The greatest example of this, of course, is “hits,” which are handed out so idiosyncratically and inconsistently that they might as well be points assigned by Hardwick on “@Midnight.” USA Hockey.