I started out in my working life as a Physicist and as such I’m always a numbers girl. When it comes to most things, and particularly hockey, my first reaction is “But what do the numbers say?” I dug through the NHL’s play-by-play data for every game this season in order to figure out exactly what it is that the …

When FC Dallas traded homegrown midfielder Kellyn Acosta to the Colorado Rapids in exchange for Dominique Badji in July 2018, the assumption around fanbase and media was that Badji was being brought in to play as a striker, the position where he had played almost exclusively in his time with the Rapids. However, almost immediately, there was talk from technical …

Going into the offseason, the Rangers knew exactly what they had to do to improve. After their 1 and 2 men in the rotation had extremely rough outings in the first two games of the ALDS (against the newly found rival Blue Jays), they had to take a look at their pitching staff. The 2016 Rangers were carried by the …