As a wise woman once told me, it’s inevitable and “regression eventually comes for us all.” This is true in many areas of life, but particularly (and as we were discussing) in hockey. Numbers and performances tend to want to regress to their mean, and outliers will eventually be brought back down to earth. Such is the way of the universe. Or... something like that.
Over the past few days, we took a look at how the Over the past week we’ve taken a look at how the Minnesota Wild’s forwards, defensemen, and goaltenders fared over the past season, and now it’s time to take a look forward.