Introduction The National Hockey League (NHL) is the top tier professional ice hockey league in North America. Comprised of 7 Canadian and 23 American teams, it is an iconic organization, home to the hockey worlds previous, current and foreseeably future legends. Area of Study I have chosen to study point production in the NHL. Points are comprised of a player’s goals and assists. If Player “A” scores 30 goals and has 20 assists, he then has 50 points. Much like other professional athletes, NHL players are paid a full time salary; this salary is in accordance to a contract. The contact states how much a player will be paid over the course of the contract term, in years. NHL players regardless of their team’s nationality are paid in US dollars. …show more content…
You can see as points rise; salary rises as well. However, there isn’t a strong correlation between the two. It is just enough to say there is a correlation between the two, but extremely weak. Understanding the Data Set The data set was comprised of the top 103-point producing forwards in the NHL. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean these forwards are the top 103 paid NHL forwards. The NHL doesn’t guarantee production, like it does salary. Production can be altered through various elements and the two don’t necessarily match. Extraneous Variables and …show more content…
For example, points can be affected by less time on ice (TOI). In the NHL, the term “time on ice” (TOI) refers to literally, how much time a forward spends on the ice, in game. In theory, the more time you spend on ice in game, the more opportunities you will have to produce points. If you’re a forward who only sees 5 minutes of time on ice, you’re less likely to produce more points than a forward who sees 30 minutes of time on ice. Next, points can be affected by poor line mates, or a poor team. The better your line or team is, the more points you will produce because your line and team can create more opportunities for you to produce points. If you’re surrounded by two forwards who have no skill or talent, you’re less likely to put up more points than when you have two all-star line mates. Lastly, points can be affected by a reduction of games. The NHL season has a total of 82 games, and my data set does not have any controls for how many games a forward played, it only uses the top 103-point producers. A reduction of games due to injury, suspension or being a healthy scratch (benched), reduces the amount of points you can produce. For example, a forward who plays 5 games in a season is less likely to produce more points than when he plays a total of 82
... milestone game in 1980, hockey in the United States has grown significantly at the professional and amateur levels. (USA Hockey, N.d.)
Fortunately for the NHL, they had/ have the Chicago Blackhawks, the Franchise to bring hockey back. The Chicago Blackhawks started the 2012-2013 series with a 24 point streak, meaning that they went 24 games with at least 1 point gained in each game. As many people don’t pay attention until the season has hit 20 or so games, the Hawks, had come to break the lockout of that particular attention span causing more attention towards not only the NHL , but for the Blackhawks themselves. As fans joined the progressing bandwagon, the NHL was gratefully coming out of the “drought” with numourus sponsorships with companies, and gaining profit from their
We will run regression analysis on how each independent variable affects the dependent variable individually and in total. The dependent variable is winning percentage, and the stats we measured were selected as the independent variables. The independent variables that we chose were: Field Goals per Game, Free Throws per Game, Assists per Game, Fouls per Game, Turnovers per Game, 3 Pointers per Game, Blocks per Game, Steals per Game & Rebounds per Game.
The sport of hockey has a long proud history of being one of the best sports in the
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After comparing and contrasting the National Hockey League rules and USA Hockey league rules, I think I prefer USA Hockey rules because the game focuses more on the development part of the game where NHL games focus more on pleasing the crowd, and politics are not involved in USA Hockey...to a point. Hockey is a great game that can be played almost anywhere there is ice, and it gives people many lessons in life. So next time you watch a NHL game, think about how it is only to please the crowd and a USA game is to have fun and learn the game more thoroughly.
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.... In the book “Lewis chronicled the exploits of Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane, who has used statistical analysis to guide the Athletics to five playoff appearances in the last eight years, despite working with one of the smallest payrolls in Major League Baseball (Bendix, 2009)”. Basic statistics are not always enough to review a team, the deeper you look the more you will find out. The old saying “you can’t judge a book by its cover”, is perfect for evaluating ball players.
As population continually increases in the Southern states, the NHL is moving teams into large Southern cities. In an effort to increase profits and popularity, the NHL has increased the number of teams in the league and moved into Southern cities that have never had hockey teams before. The problem is that hockey is not as popular in the South as it is in the North. This expansion in the South has lead to huge monetary losses to Southern teams and very low attendance numbers. The NHL should not have expanded the league into Southern cities and should keep NHL teams farther North.
effect by the NBA to put a limit on beginning salaries, so some measures are
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