I've been "planning" to write this article for nearly a year now yet due to my laziness, never got around to actually doing it. Then I listened to the Steve Dangle Podcast episode with Jeff Marek, and a few quotes by Jeff finally gave me the motivation to start typing:
"...In a lot of ways, I think if we look 10 years from now and look back at how we're looking at hockey analytically, we're gonna laugh at it because it'll be a whole different way to look at the game from an analytics point of view that makes this look rudimentary.