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| Daniel Sprong. Photo by Darrell Theriault. |
Readers of Islanders Country!
Last season I had the privilege of writing for this site and being introduced to you all. Most notably my monthly recaps, where we took a look at the team's performance based largely upon shot differential through each period, PDO, and percentages.
However, this year I want to expand even further. I always have been fascinated with hockey statistics from a young age and with "fancy stats" and "analytics" being introduced to an audience at the national level. I want to take it a step further this upcoming season with Islanders Country.
I will continue to do monthly write-ups in a similar fashion to last season, but we're going to step it up a notch. This year I want to include shot numbers for: even strength, power play, and penalty kill so we can statistically see what areas the Islanders excel or need improvement instead of just overall shot totals. We also want to look at zone entries and zone starts for players on a game basis. I will be able to go through the game footage to capture examples to show everyone which players take the puck into the opposing teams' zone with control. Like-wise we will able to show which defenders on the Islanders do the best job of making it difficult for opposing teams to enter our zone. There are plenty of possibilities for ideas that can be done with this information.
Breaking down game footage is also something I'm looking at but will likely be less frequent due to my time being occupied with University and working. But, the goal is to provide a ton of content for Islanders Country and Charlottetown Islanders fans while becoming the best damn blog in the Q.
Lastly I want to thank everyone who has watched "The Sprong Show - Daniel Sprong" on Vimeo/YouTube. The video now has a combined 4,093 views on both sites and has been met tons of praise! It was a lot of fun to make but it is not something I am focused on in the future. There will likely be more videos but its not priority.
As always, Thanks for reading. See you at the rink!
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