Lake-backed Swedish studies and public-league analytical notes — all in one Research feed. Prefer pieces marked as MotherDuck-sourced when you need citable numbers.
52 SHL team-seasons. Roster continuity correlates 0.32 with points share; mean age does not. Coaching changes barely move the needle. We cannot rank 20 years of GMs from available staff data. A transparent prior for 2026/27: Frölunda, Växjö, Skellefteå, Rögle.
Part 3 of the timeout study — which SHL clubs used the 30-second break over five seasons. HV71 in half their games, Växjö in 23%. Timrå and Örebro mostly press it while trailing; Malmö and HV71 do not.
Same 1,854 SHL regular-season games as our timeout study. League average 5.52 penalties per game. Among officials with 150+ assignments, Tobias Björk sits at 5.82 and Johan Wedin at 4.94. First public cut at the “referees are noise” claim — assignment rates, not who-called-it.
Part 2 of our timeout study — which SHL coaches used the 30-second break most over five seasons, the quiet 2021/22 dip, and why the empty-net gamble still looks like a bad lottery ticket.
No hockey knowledge needed. We looked at every timeout coaches used in Sweden's top hockey league over five seasons (1,303 of them). Almost all are used late, by a team that is losing, to set up one last desperate gamble — and it rarely works. Explained in plain language, with simple charts.
Junior ice-time share (JITS%) across SHL grundserie 2023/24–2025/26. Skellefteå averages 14.7% U20 skater TOI; Färjestad 2.5%. Same league, very different development bets.