Sharpen your pencils and adjust that pocket protector, the Pittsburgh Penguins have entered the age of analytics by hiring War On Ice website founder Sam Ventura.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have hired Sam Ventura, from the wonderful (and often cited website here) War on Ice as an analytics consultant.
The Penguins have hired war-on-ice.com co-creator Sam Ventura, a Swissvale native, to join their hockey operations department as a consultant responsible for analytics, vice president of hockey operations Jason Karmanos told Trib Total Media on Wednesday.
Ventura, 27, recently earned his Ph.