I wrote an article on whether Ottawa Senators strengths align with Carolina Hurricanes weaknesses and whether that might be the difference in their first round matchup.
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I made some upgrades to the draft pick simulator. You can now specify up to 16 picks which should cover most/all teams drafts. I also added some additional pick ranges to choose (i.e. 6-10 overall). Finally, you can now run the simulation 1, 5 or 10 times.
www.thestanleycap.com/tools/draft_...
I made some upgrades to the draft pick simulator. You can now specify up to 16 picks which should cover most/all teams drafts. I also added some additional pick ranges to choose (i.e. 6-10 overall). Finally, you can now run the simulation 1, 5 or 10 times.
www.thestanleycap.com/tools/draft_...
Thank-you to everyone that visited TheStanleyCap.com today. It was almost certainly our busiest day for traffic ever.
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Did your team trade for some draft picks today? Were you wondering the quality of players you reasonably expect from those draft picks down the road? Use this draft pick simulator to see the types of players that were taken with those picks in the past.
www.thestanleycap.com/tools/draft_...
Anyway, just a fun little tool for those wondering what the value of the draft picks your favourite team just acquired, or just traded away, is. Maybe you get lucky and get some top tier players. Maybe you get a bunch of busts. Have some fun with it and share your results. (5/5)
Of course, if you run the simulation again, you may not be so lucky. This is my second simulation result. (4/5)
Click the Run Simulation button and the system will produce a list of three players selected at random from the 2007-2018 NHL drafts that fit that criteria and then show you the kind of player your draft lottery tickets might produce. For example, I got Berggren Lehner and Meloche for Weegar. (3/5)
With this tool you can specify up to 10 draft picks by round or by overall draft pick. So for the Weegar trade you could estimate that one of the picks will be 33-38th overall and the other two would be in the 40-48 overall range. (2/5)
New Feature for Trade Deadline Day
Weegar was traded for three 2nd round picks. Want to know what a reasonable expectation of value is for those picks? Now you can. Introducing the Draft Pick Value Simulator which can be found under the Analytics menu. (1/5)
www.thestanleycap.com/tools/draft_...
Not even out a day and I have a nice enhancement of these team cards. Added to the 2025-26 team cards are 5 year trends.
I love Utah's trends, especially for Create, Pen. Kill and Skating.
thestanleycap.com/teams/utah-m...
Yes, the URL is under the team card in the team cards tab on the team page. Carolina's for 2025-26 is thestanleycap.com/cdn/team_car...
Just use this as the image file name when uploading an image.
BTW, you can copy the URLs from the Team Cards tab and post the image file directly in your posts if you want.
Not even out a day and I have a nice enhancement of these team cards. Added to the 2025-26 team cards are 5 year trends.
I love Utah's trends, especially for Create, Pen. Kill and Skating.
thestanleycap.com/teams/utah-m...
I have also made the aligned all color scales across the website (player cards, player/team stats tables) to match the red-blue color scale of these team cards.
New Feature: Team cards.
Team cards for the current season and the past 5 seasons can be found in the 'Team Cards' tab on team pages.
thestanleycap.com/teams/pittsb...
TheStanleyCap.com is now free ad-free.
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I am by no means a privacy zealot, but people deserve not to be tracked and not to have their data shared with hundreds of businesses, most you have never heard of and many not from the country you live.
TheStanleyCap.com is now free ad-free.
The other day I visited a website that wanted permission to use cookies and share data with advertisers and partners. In total they were requesting permission to share data with over 200 businesses. I have decided I cannot facilitate this practice.
For those unfamiliar, these reports show individual and on-ice statistics for skaters, goalies, lines, defense pairs, 5v4 PP units, 4v5 PK units and teams. You can also see NHL edge data for skaters and teams in tabular form which makes comparing players much easier than you can on the NHL website.
Site Update: I have added all of the hockey analytics reports that are on Puckalytics.com to TheStanleyCap.com. You can access the reports from the STATS pull down menu. These will exactly match the Puckalytics reports so you can choose which look you like best.
I'm happy to announce that I have added NHL Edge Team Reports to Puckalytics including NHL Edge Skating, Shot Speed and Zone Time reports.
I'll also be adding this data to TheStanleyCap.com Team Pages in the coming days.
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Martin Necas signs an 8 year $11.5M AAV contract extension with the Avalanche.
At the pace players are getting extended there will be no top tier free agents left next summer.
thestanleycap.com/players/mart...
One more announcement, and this is a good one. I am happy to announce that through database and code optimizations I have achieved significant reductions in page load times making the user experience significantly better.
Team and Player pages load 50-60% faster than previously.
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