Perspective: Hockey’s forgotten first analytics revolution — and what it tells us about the game’s future
Alex Ovechkin hoists the Stanley Cup after the Washington Capitals defeated the Vegas Golden Knights to win the championship in Las Vegas on June 7, 2018. By Stephen Hardy and Andrew Holman April 10 at 6:00 AM Among sports fans, little generates more discussion and disagreement than analytics. Recently, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted its 13th annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
At that time, the NHL dominated Canada’s game. It did so because it arranged contracts that controlled players as young as 14, harnessed a vast network of minor and junior teams as a talent feeder system and controlled media images in magazines like Hockey News and television shows like “Hockey Night in Canada."
Percival became a sports celebrity who confidently and casually imparted wisdom bolstered by copious statistics and research. It was these statistics that separated Percival from the pack of hockey experts also offering advice. As he explained in the preface to his 1951 classic “Hockey Handbook”: “Soon after Sports College was organized we began a hockey research project.
Percival had more immediate influence on top-tier hockey in the Soviet Union, where the game was adopted with purpose after World War II as one of Stalin’s vehicles for demonstrating the superiority of the communist way of life. “Canadian” ice hockey was quite different from the bandy style then popular in Russia, but in part because it was new, coaches and trainers were open to different strategies and philosophy.
That kind of remark hardly endeared him to the Canadian-dominated NHL. He had already alienated Montreal fans in 1951 when a Detroit News headline claimed that his tests proved that Detroit’s Gordie Howe was the “best right wing in hockey,” and the Canadiens’ star Maurice Richard a “poor second.” In response, Canadiens’ coach Dick Irvin called Percival’s work the product of a “3-year-old child.”
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