Daily News | How analytics have fueled Travis Konecny’s breakout season with the Flyers
In the season following his All-Star campaign, the goals dried up for Konecny, as he managed just 11 in 50 games . But due to COVID, the 2020-21 season was strange for the whole team and the whole world, so outside factors could be excused.Konecny came back determined to be better. Unfortunately, his play and numbers continued to plummet.
Anderson confirmed that Brière’s eyes and the numbers aligned, so the two began to dig deeper. As they worked side-by-side, Brière, who only had a cursory knowledge of analytics, would tell Anderson how much he was learning. Anderson said he was learning just as much from Brière’s perspective as a former player.
At the same time, they continued to spend hours gathering information and getting feedback from other departments. Over the next few weeks, they accumulated so much information, Brière joked their presentation could have lasted three days.Flyers progress report: Evaluating Chuck Fletcher’s offseason moves at the halfway point
Konecny left the meeting “a little shocked,” Sanheim said. He wasn’t quite sure how to take it or what it involved. But he did know that Brière, a player he’d always looked up to, was trying to help him out of a season-and-a-half-long slump, and if “Danny B’s asking to look at your game, you say yes 100 times out of 100 times.”
Trying to sum up the hours of work, Anderson described what they were showing Konecny as “broadly speaking, just habits and areas of the ice you want to get to in specific situations that he had had success in, and then some that he didn’t. And then just identifying the differences between the two.” Without typical games to go through the situations, Konecny tried to simulate them in his offseason workouts in Calgary. Keeping all the information he’d learned in mind took some getting used to.
Despite missing six games with a hand injury, Konecny has now scored 24 goals and 22 assists. He’s already tied his career-high in goals with 40 games to go, and he’s 15 points away from his career-best of 61 points. After shooting just 7.3% last season, Konecny is firing at a torrid 20.3% clip this season.
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