The Montreal Canadiens have hired Christopher Boucher as their director of hockey analytics, the team announced on Friday.
The news was first reported by Marc-Antoine Godin of The Athletic.
Boucher was most recently a pro scout with the San Jose Sharks, where he spent the last two seasons. He was also one of the data mining minds behind Montreal company SportLogiq. He came up with many of the metrics the company tracks to this day.
He used manually tracked data on Twitter and in contributions to Habs Eyes on the Prize to make a name for himself.