A brief guide to hockey’s advanced statistics

Photo by Bill Smith/NHLI via Getty ImagesBefore we return to our regularly scheduled dissection of the 2021-22 Chicago Blackhawks season, we thought this would be an ideal time to offer a walkthrough of the statistics, charts, graphs and other pieces of information that frequent the site, taken from some of the best advanced hockey statistics sources on the internet.

And because we, the SCH staff know that you, the SCH reader, are already a wonderful, delightful, amicable, endearing, marvelous and outstanding group of people, we wanted to add “knowledgeable” to that list of dazzling character traits.

So let’s get into it, starting with what’s probably the most popular source for advanced…