Drance Numbers: Harry Potter plays soft minutes; the Sedins play optimized...
The Canucks blogosphere (lovingly called the Smylosphere by those working within it) has been talking about zone-starts and what they tell us about this team for well over a year now. Lately, however,...
View ArticleDrance Numbers: How much do the Sedins miss Christian Ehrhoff?
With Daniel Sedin on pace for 81 points this season and Henrik Sedin on pace for 83, it looks like the twins will be returning to the point-per game level of production they put up in the four years...
View ArticleDrance Numbers: Which Canucks’ defender suppresses shots most effectively?
Earlier this week, Alain Vigneault talked about Chris Higgins’ plus-5 scoring chance differential over the Canucks' losses to the Sabres and Stars. The two-game sample Vigneault referred to isn’t much...
View ArticleDrance Numbers: The Official PITB Advanced Stat Glossary
Drance Numbers is the silly research wing of PITB. While Messrs. Wagner and Mooney blog nationally and solve mysteries, Drance Numbers will look into the minutiae of quantifiable NHL data and bore you...
View ArticleDrance Numbers: How does Henrik Sedin’s game change without Daniel?
It’s been about ten days since Daniel Sedin was sidelined with a concussion. The bad news is that concussions are extremely unpredictable, and while Mike Gillis has hinted that Daniel should be ready...
View ArticleDrance Numbers: I was eerily correct about the Canucks’ goal totals
It's odd to be writing the final “Drance Numbers” post of the regular season. It feels like only just yesterday I was writing the first, a detailed post projecting the Canucks' likely offensive output...
View ArticleDrance Numbers: Don’t trust playoff AV; stopping the Kopitar line is job one
Watching Wednesday night’s series opener between the Kings and the Canucks, I was wildly impressed with the play of Anze Kopitar, Justin Williams and Dustin Brown. They were a pack of hyenas right from...
View ArticleDrance Numbers: Kesler and Booth have chemistry
Advanced statistics and quantitative analysis have consistently proven useful in hockey, but any honest hockey math nerd will admit that there are factors the numbers can’t quite measure. Some things...
View ArticleDrance Numbers: Did the Canucks really change after the Boston game?
There were plenty of interesting statements in Mike Gillis's epic season wrapup press conference Tuesday morning, but one of the most jarring came in response to the very first question posed to him by...
View ArticleDrance Numbers: Investigating the Canucks’ prospects
Today is May 11th, the day on which the Canucks were eliminated from the playoffs in 2009 and 2010. It was seen as a date of bad omen during last year's playoff run as well, although they managed to...
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