With the Detroit Red Wings now employing a quantitative analyst for hockey, a new era has dawned in the realm of hockey analytics. NHL fanbases have been gifted with new methods of evaluating player worth beyond simple point totals, and the “eye test” (an analysis based on individual perceptions of player performance) that can arguably be universally accepted as obsolete.
The most popular and understandable measurement of such sorts is Corsi. This stat, in differing context, can be referred to in multiple fashions (Corsi, CorsiFor, CF%, etc.)
Today’s display of NHL hockey revolves heavily around the strategy of maintaining puck possession as a method of not only generating offense, but limiting opposing offensive opportunities.