HockeyStats.com Site Update
New features and a preview of what's to come.
Hope everyone is having a nice start to December.
As you might be aware, we launched our official website a few months ago. It’s the home to all our stats as well as player + team cards and plenty of other stuff both free to access and exclusive to subscribers. Since then, Patrick’s been working incredibly hard to build up the features to make the site your home for hockey stats.
I wanted to take the chance to highlight some of the upgrades to the site - which is now officially HockeyStats.com - and give some updates on what to expect in the coming months, including a few major new features.
Website Upgrades
Since the summer, Patrick’s gone all-out adding great features and he’s still adding more. Let me run down a few.
Game Projections: The top bar of the site now features the NHL schedule as well as percentage projections for each game. Clicking on the game allows you to see full projected lineups, projected goals, head-to-head team ranking comparisons, and the impact that each game outcome will have on each team’s playoff chances and point projection. Here’s a sample game.
Game Stats: Patrick’s been working super hard on these and the results are awesome. We’ve got the regular box score (improved with a snazzy graphic showing how each goal has changed the game odds), an interactive head-to-head shot map that can be filtered to your heart’s content, team head-to-head numbers, an interactive scatter graph of all players, and finally full goalie, individual, on-ice, and line stats. These also update live, so if you log onto HockeyStats.com while games are going on you can see update % likelihood of winning and the full suite of stats as well.
Standings Projections: The TopDown standings projection model is there on the home page, and maybe more importantly it also shows the full current standings by 82-game pace which you can’t find anywhere else.
Player Pages: These aren’t quite done yet (more on that later) but each player card-eligible player has a full page where you can find their full statistics and all their player cards (current, microstat, and historic).
Dashboards: This is a big one for me - we are finally free of Tableau! Patrick has essentially replicated our suite of interactive scatterplot dashboards for teams and skaters as well as a bar graph of goals saved above expected.
Stat Tables: The stat tables are fully up and stocked with 2025-26 data, with one particular feature that you won’t find anywhere else which is per 82 GP numbers. This means you can check out player point pace without having to do the math yourself.
Salary Cap Calculator: In case you missed it, we do have an interactive bar graph dashboard which uses projected cap growth to put proposed or actual contracts in the context of the pre-growth cap.
What’s Coming?
We are adding even more stuff in the near future as well. Here’s a preview:
2025-26 Player Cards: We appreciate the patience you guys have had with our decision, like usual, to not rush out 2025-26 WAR numbers before the sample stabilizes and therefore have the player cards be based on a combined 2024-25+2025-26 sample. We’re almost there! Player cards with distinct 2025-26 data will be released for early access on Christmas for $10+ subscribers, and on January 1 for $5+ subscribers.
Scouting Reports: This has been in the works for a while. It has always bugged me that you can find mountains of eye-test-based information on every fifth round pick but almost none on actual established NHL players. That’s going to change. For about the past year, I have been carefully watching all of the league’s most relevant players and digging through all types of data to write 100- to 400-word summaries of their games that do not explicitly reference any stats whatsoever. These reports describe what they’re good at, what their weaknesses are, and how they play the game. They’re not uber-technical (no references to ankle flexion), but they will give you a bite-sized understanding of how they play the game that you couldn’t find anywhere else. I’ve also been validating these reports with people who cover the respective teams to make sure they line up and that I haven’t missed anything. As of right now, I have written around 200 forward reports and 75 defenceman reports and the total word count is almost 37,000. I am aiming to have these on the site by January 1, with more added and updated as the season goes along. Here’s an example, Macklin Celebrini’s:
Upgraded Player Pages: There’s a lot of stuff I want to do with these player pages, in addition to adding the scouting reports. Some ideas I’ve had are interactive timelines for their stats, adding in stuff like points per 82 games and adjusted points per 82 for their entire careers, etc. Basically, everything I’m always annoyed that I can’t find anywhere.
Stats Central: These ranking graphics I post every Sunday are very popular and we’ll be adding them to the site in some capacity.
PWHL Stats: The PWHL season has begun and we want to add stats to the site. We haven’t had a good look at how detailed the data is exactly and what we can do with it, but the plan is to have at least basics and hopefully some form of player card on the site.
Line Stats and With or Without Yous: Our goal with the site is to have everything hockey stat-related you want to find on there, so combo stats and with or without yous are a big one.
2025-26 Microstat Cards: Microstat cards are my favourite thing on the site but sample size is even more sensitive with it because it’s contingent on how much Corey tracks. I would expect that they’ll be ready to go around February in time for deadline talk. I am exploring other ways to maximize this awesome data though.
I’m sure there’s other stuff I’m forgetting, but that’s the gist I believe. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or ideas of what you’d like to see on the site! And thanks again for all the support!