For the Avalanche, it’s not just the quality of information from the four-person team on the analytics staff, but how it gets communicated and circulated throughout the organization that help…
Colorado Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar talks with Colorado Avalanche defenseman Devon Toews on the bench during the second period at Ball Arena in Denver on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. The Avalanche just overpowered the Winnipeg Jets in a Stanley Cup Playoffs series with a tenacious forecheck, a terrifying combination of skill and will in front of the net and … statistical analysis?
“… It just puts the numbers in front of the players’ faces. You can’t really argue with the way they present it to us.”“No,” Johnson replied with a mischievous grin. “We knew there were certain things that they did well, and there were certain things that they struggled with. And we knew those were the things we were going to focus on and try to exploit.”
“It’s changed a lot, even in just my time here,” Bednar said. “I like all of the information. You just have to make sure you’re presenting it in a way that the players can understand and grasp all of it.” From the early days of fans creating and discussing advanced statistics on the internet to NHL teams using and developing new metrics, gaining acceptance was a hurdle. Then finding ways to communicate the information so that coaches, players and scouts would embrace it was another.
“Pretty much the whole pre-game meetings are based on the other team’s analytics,” said defenseman Sean Walker, who joined the club before the trade deadline after time with the Flyers and Kings. “It’s new to me. It’s not something that I paid attention to too much before, but it definitely gives you a strong idea of what the other team is trying to do. I think it’s helpful. It’s definitely interesting to see the analytics and how it plays out on the ice.
“We’re just trying to find a competitive advantage to what we’re doing,” Avs defenseman Devon Toews said. “Analytics gives you data, and our coaching staff does a good job of supporting it with video and the things that show you the eye test as well as the numbers. They do a good job of bringing both pieces to us and we’ve done a good job of implementing it in games.
“It is kind of cool to see the correlation between when we were having really good stretches — would read off the numbers we were always top-five, top-10 in those defensive categories,” Colton said. “I feel like we were pretty consistent in the top five with offensive numbers. There were times when our defensive play dipped, but we didn’t realize it was so drastic. We’d go from top-five to like 23 when we were on a losing skid.
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