The Dallas Stars don’t play again until Wednesday, so it could be a long, slow weekend – except for the 2019 NHL All-Star Game. (Which still qualifies as a long, slow weekend in many books.) Why not inject a little Science! just to make it more fun?
Stats wizard Dom Luszczyszyn did exactly this for his latest piece in The Athletic. He qualifies up front that his calculations are really just a way “to highlight some of the amazing seasons being had by the players representing each division.”
But he doesn’t give the Central Division much of a chance, claiming they’re represented by the “weakest” skating core among all divisions.