Scoring first gives NHL teams a clear advantage, but how much depends on team strength, home ice and timing. We break down the numbers and see where the Seattle Kraken fit.
Category: Data
Data Dump: Scoring chances under Lane Lambert
After digging into Lane Lambert’s impact on Kraken goal scoring in my last piece, I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was still more research to look at or areas to explore. Goal scoring tells part of the story, but it doesn’t tell us how teams are generating...
Data Dump: Seattle Kraken goals against over 2024–25
Last week I posted a deep dive on the Seattle Kraken’s goal scoring over the 2024–25 season. Several of you asked to see the other side of the equation, so this week I’m doing another deep dive, this time into goals against. The publicly available data and tools are...
Data Dump: Seattle Kraken scoring
I've been eager to dive into the Seattle Kraken scoring this season, and the 4 Nations Face-Off break provided the perfect opportunity to analyze some key metrics without the data changing every few days. In this exploration, I'll examine a couple areas: how the...
The Long Change Effect: NHL scoring trends for the 2023-24 season
With all the downtime in the offseason, I have decided to dig into NHL play-by-play data. One question that has been bouncing around my head is how the "long change" affects scoring rates. In the NHL, the long change is in effect during the second period, when teams...
Data Dump: Stanley Cup Playoff series length, scoring, and more
It's been a while since we've had a good old-fashioned Data Dump, but that doesn't mean I haven't been actively scouring the publicly available data for insights. I spent the better part of my weekend rebuilding my data pipelines so that I could condense things into a...
Opportunities for improvement on the Seattle Kraken power play
It is no secret that an area where the Seattle Kraken have an opportunity to improve this season is their power play. That's not to say it was horrible all last season - Seattle ranked 21st in the league - but isolating just playoff teams, they ranked 14th out of the...
Will the Kraken regress in shooting percentage this season?
Two months into the 2022-23 NHL season there was a national media narrative going around that the Kraken’s early season success was driven by an unsustainable shooting percentage and that it was just a matter of time before they would drop toward the bottom of the...
Data Dump: 2023 Stanley Cup Playoff Scoring
With these extra few days between Rounds 2 and 3 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, we thought it would be fun to look at the data behind the scoring to see how it compares to previous playoff years. Let's take a look. Playoff scoring versus the regular season The first...
Data Dump: Stanley Cup Playoff roster breakdown
Now that we are through the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, I thought it would be fun to look at the data behind the rosters and try to evaluate how they were built. Player acquisition type NHL Entry Draft, free agency, trades, and waiver wire acquisitions...
2022-23 NHL Schedule Breakdown
With the kickoff of the NHL season this week, it is a good time to breakdown the 2022-23 schedule. Here, we drill into who is logging the most frequent flier miles, which teams have the most back-to-back games, and which teams will appear on the most national...
Data Dump – Kraken power play has room for improvement
One of the biggest challenges the Seattle Kraken had last year was scoring goals. The Kraken ranked 28th in the league with only 213 goals scored for the entire 2021-22 season. A key component of this challenge was the lack of opportunity and success on the power...