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by Forechecker on 12/05/08 at 09:39 AM ET
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I know it’s Friday and half of you are already thinking about the weekend, but fire up those brain cells for a little bit longer and head over to the Edmonton Journal, where Dave Staples interviews Gabe Desjardins, proprietor of the seminal advanced hockey statistics site Behind the Net (which I use quite often in analytical pieces).
In this new world of new hockey statistics, many hardcore fans have made stellar contributions, but Desjardins is one of the most influential figures.
He has come up with a number of conceptually brilliant ideas on how to rate hockey players, things such as his Quality of Competition index, which attempts to put a number on just how difficult the opposition faced by each NHL player is.
Towards the end of the piece, Staples also revisits the issue of how misleading the traditional Plus/Minus statistic is, and discusses possible improvements.
Read on for the entire interview…
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Dirk Hoag is the Forechecker, churner of NHL stats and analysis. Having started over 10 years ago writing for websites like In the Crease and e-Sports, Dirk launched On The Forecheck in 2005 to cover the Nashville Predators as well as apply statistical analysis to NHL hockey.
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