I think I’ve been destined to write this post: since the beginning of this year, as many of you may know from twitter, I’ve been treating the Carolina Hurricanes as my second team and have been watching nearly all of their games. It’s not totally random - they were the local NHL hockey team while I was in college and went to a lot of games during those years - and I’ve been a fan of what they’ve been doing player management-wise for a while (their Analytics guy, Eric Tulsky, was the guy who inspired me to do Neutral Zone Tracking, so this is not surprising).