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Player deployment compared to results for the Lightning

Related Topics: Jon Cooper (ice hockey)

Looking at the deployment of Lightning players using Micah Blake McCurdy's method of measuring pressure and compares that to their on-ice performance.

On Saturday, Micah Blake McCurdy released his work quantifying the relative amount of pressure faced by players during their ice time. His full article can be read here. Micah does a great job of explaining a fairly complex idea in simple terms.

As he explains in his write-up, his new model measures the amount of pressure during a given point in a game. The basic way he accomplishes this is by measuring the importance of a goal for and the importance of a goal against at each moment in a game.