Boston Bruins' Coach Bruce Cassidy Offers Funny & Insightful Analytics' Lesson

Analytics are often the subject of ridicule & often times not taken seriously by fans around the league. However, personnel INSIDE the league have grown more & more reliant on data to create a visual of their teams' strengths & weaknesses. The ability to quantify on-ice results by means other than raw point production has ushered in a revolution within the game.

The new-wave method of building hockey teams dictates absolute surgical precision regarding salary cap management, a deep understanding of underlying statistics' application to tangible on ice production, & the ability to create a result greater than the sum of the organization's parts. Teams that emulate this win the most.

Cassidy's tidbit on analytics featured a funny quip about data analysts for the Bruins' club, but his insight achieved far more than generating a few laughs. The speech was actually quite profound in its attempt at exposing how coaches in the NHL deploy their analytics department.

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