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.
Average PIM per SDHL game dropped from ~21 in 2016/17 toward the low teens while overtime nights bounced back — a jubilee read on a league that stopped living in the box.
From the SDHL jubilee export: who piles up hat-tricks, which matchups are one-way streets, and the 3–13 scorelines nobody wants on a highlight reel.
1,764 SDHL jubilee games: home teams win 51.9%, 36% decided by one goal. Foreign players are ~40% of rosters but score 62.4% of goals — data-backed, not vibes.
Goals Saved Above Expected (GSAX) is the metric that separates genuine Conference Finals goaltending performance from shot-quality-driven variance. Here is how to read it and what the 2026 numbers mean.
Line matching strategy, deployment data, and forward matchup analytics for Conference Finals 2026. How coaches use zone starts, last-change advantage, and TOI to control which lines face which.
5-on-5 Corsi and expected goals data for all four Conference Finals 2026 teams — Carolina, Montreal, Vegas, and Colorado. Which matchups were possession contests and which were goaltender-driven variance games?