The Colorado Avalanche season is nearly upon us, and we’re going to have to get real about some hockey. I think about mid-November we’re going to have to get really real about our expectations, but that’s a story for another post.
While it’s still technically the off-season — World Cup of Hockey notwithstanding — we have time for at least one more crossover post. We’ve had a few of them, such as Avs players as Grey’s Anatomy characters or Thanksgiving food. (Yep, that happened.)
Recently I wrote a post about how hockey IS Slipknot:
My point of the post was that analytics don’t tell the whole tale when it comes to hockey.