It’s been a whirlwind in Habs land lately. First there was the firing of Marc Bergevin, the hiring of Jeff Gorton and now there’s a new GM of the Montreal Canadiens, in the form of one Kent Hughes.
After watching the press conference with Hughes, Gorton, and Geoff Molson, one word that kept getting me excited was “analytics.”
Firstly we need to define the difference between statistics and analytics. In a nutshell, stats are the numbers, and analytics are what we do with them. During the 2021 off-season, I did a series on my podcast of stats-based analysis of the Habs roster by creating a model.