Neil Pierre-Louis

Minor site update: coach measurements for 25-26 are up at hockeyviz.com/coaches (you can also use the link in the Tools menu; you will need a Basic subscription in either case).

Thank you I appreciate it! There’s a lot that’s kind of fucked up right now lol but will try to get to it at some point this winter

Wrote a piece on sample size and reliability in the NHL. Check it out:
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Yeah for real

Boston

Yeah was gonna say DEFINITELY use an ad blocker lol

I actually wanted to die for like 5 seconds and then remembered everything on here is online lol. Still annoying as shit though

Another reason why I’m grateful for Git

Oh hell yeah

Elite setup

Hoping to do some version of this but for gamescore with skaters

Coming to the website soon as an interactive comparison tool

⬡⬢⬡ HockeyViz 2025-2026 Season Preview ⬢⬡⬢

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Detailed skill and icetime breakdowns for every team, and a million simulations of the upcoming NHL seasons.

There are many, many graphs.

Great thread.

Walked 1 minute to the dentist this morning. Cities are so undefeated

half the posts I read about claude code lately are like "if you spend 90 minutes crafting the perfect prompt, claude.md file, generate the right subagents, then you can magically save yourself 20 minutes of work!"

Send that shit my way 🤣🤣

Nik Ehlers (6x8.5m with Carolina) is a tremendous generator and finisher of offence, especially at 5v5, average defensively, strongly impacts his team's penalty differential. An extremely team-friendly deal.

pierreanalytics/scrape_shifts.py at main · neilpl24/pierreanalytics All of my hockey stuff. Contribute to neilpl24/pierreanalytics development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Updated my (horrendous) scraper if anyone is curious

New xG models should be on my website by the end of next week. Will also have data starting from the 2010-2011 season. Know I’ve been teasing the matchups write up but needed to do this first to address some bad data cleaning/pipelining, weird goalie GSAx values, and accuracy

New xG Model at HockeyViz: Magnus 8

hockeyviz.com/txt/xg8

Measuring shot quality, shooter quality, goalie quality, and the structural factors that affect them.

2025 NHL Playoff Predictions An data-driven look at each of the eight series in the first round of the NHL playoffs.

2025 NHL Playoff Predictions are out

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I saw this from @pierreanalytics.com over at the other place, but since he hardly posts here, wanted the Bsky folks to see it too:
Andrei Svechnikov NHL Edge skating stats in 2021-2022 (left, pre-ACL surgery) vs 2024-2025 (right). It's the percentile column that should jump out.

Happy opening day!

Roman's turn!

It’s been very fun to watch

Ottawa 😳😮

Caps suck ass in the 1st, win 4-2 with an Alex Ovechkin ENG vibes to this game

Ayo

@hockeyviz.com Thoughts on Stankoven with the Canes?