For the purpose of this article, penalty killing is strictly four against five. Data was either self-tracked or from Natural Stat Trick.
Last weekend I presented at the Rochester Institute of Technology Sport Analytics Conference where I used the Bruins penalty killing entry defense as my data set as an example for a project. Now I’m going to analyze the data set, and combine some video to figure out what the Bruins did well, and what they did poorly.
Before we jump in, let’s first talk about why this topic caught my eye in the first place.