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Historical Comparables: Joffrey Lupul Big Money Contract Edition

The other day on Twitter the question of whether or not Dion Phaneuf misses the net more often than other players came up. I decided to dig into it a bit and using numbers from Behind The Net I...

When Gary Bettman and the NHL walked away from the NHLPA's most recent Collective Bargaining Agreement offer after only 10-15 minutes of talks, many people concluded that the season was in jeopardy...

Today the NHL presented the NHLPA with a new Collective Bargaining Agreement proposal. It seems to have a lot of people optimistic about the prospect of having an NHL season start sooner rather...

I've seen quite a few people suggest lately that the NHL's proposed new collective bargaining agreement is designed to help out the small market NHL teams. I've heard a number of people question...

By all accounts Jake Gardiner had a successful rookie season. The 22 year old former Anaheim Ducks draft pick impressed fans and management alike during training camp and managed to earn himself a...

About a week ago I wrote a post called Lupul vs Kulemin: Who Made The Leafs Better in 2011/12? In that piece I used team averaged on-ice shooting percentages for both players for some of my...

A comparison of Nikolai Kulemin versus Joffrey Lupul. Who made the Toronto Maple Leafs better in 2011-12?

Measuring Puck Possession: The End - Draglikepull aggregates the information he gathered during an early stretch of the Leafs' season around puck possession and how much time each team spent attacking/defending.

Why people should look at deals as a percentage of the cap and how the Maple Leafs' salaries breakdown under that system.

I thought it would be a fun little exercise to see who the community would take when the Leafs come up to pick and then compare that to who the Leafs actually choose. Then in the future we could...

How much should the Maple Leafs spend on a top four defenceman like Ryan Suter?

The end of the regular season has long since passed, and for Leafs fans that means there's not an awful lot going on that's worth writing about. To fill in some of the time between now and...

I'm going to give a pretty in-depth explanation of how my roster is built and why I believe it's a long-term winner, but I may as well start off by simply listing the roster. Here are my lines,...

A while back, I decided to try to figure out why the Leafs seem to have so many problems killing penalties year after year. Over the past few weeks, I've gathered some data and watched a bunch of...

Part 2 of a detailed look at the Leafs' PK struggles and what is causing them.

The Leafs are slipping out of the playoffs but are they making progress?

Comparing the Leafs' penalty kill with a statistical equivalent in Minnesota's penalty kill. How is one successful and the other awful?

Brian Burke lamented the death of hitting in today's press conference about Colton Orr's waiving. Is he right?

I don't recall who, but one of the hockey stats guys recently made a remark on Twitter that went along the lines of "Who was the last coach to be fired with a high PDO?" The idea behind that...

This post marks the conclusion of my real-time Puck Possession tracking series. I intended to do it for 10 games, and I've now finished the 10 game stretch, so I think I'm going to wrap it up to...

The latest installment of my puck possession series here at Pension Plan Puppets looks at the two games the Toronto Maple Leafs played against the Boston Bruins this week. The Leafs fared pretty...

Continuing my series measuring puck possession in the offensive zone, I've now compiled the numbers for Toronto's game against the Anaheim [Mighty] Ducks from last night. If you're not familiar...