Per sources, soon to be UFA F Mikheyev is highly coveted by teams looking to improve their penalty kill and speed, chips in offensively. Seen as a comp to Sherwood, likely garners a mid term contract at 5M range. #HockeyX

Interesting storyline for NHL Finals: Carolina Hurricanes GM Eric Tulsky has a PhD in Chemistry from Berkeley. Before joining them in 2014, he was offered a job with Apple to work on battery tech (but turned it down). Started in the analytics department and since hired neuroscientists and mechanical engineers for the NHL team. The Athletic profile has this anecdote: ➡️ “In 2021, Tulsky was the Carolina Hurricanes assistant GM and had built a small analytics department in the organization, with a web developer, a data engineer and a neuroscientist helping him lead the team’s push into new frontiers for the sport. But because of what he saw in the tracking data, Tulsky believed his next addition needed to be someone who was working on autonomous vehicles — perhaps “a robot submarine,” he says now — and had an advanced mechanical engineering background. “I knew that that was the kind of problem that put people thinking about the kinds of data that we had and the kinds of problems we faced,” Tulsky explained. It goes without saying that there aren’t many robot submarine engineers working in NHL front offices. So Tulsky began a deep search through universities’ mechanical engineering departments. He would scour the faculty listing and professors’ research interests to see if they might align with what he was looking for, then reach out to learn more about their work. He started with the top schools in Canada, reasoning that there was a greater chance he would find someone interested in working on a hockey problem. And that was how an NHL team came to fund the PhD research of a young engineering student named Jonathan Arsenault at McGill University in Montreal. His thesis, the first to be backed by a professional hockey team? “Quantitative Analysis of Hockey Using Spatiotemporal Tracking Data.” ⬅️ *** NYT/The Athletic: nytimes.com/athletic/6286244…

Rod Brind’Amour might have one of the best mug hoists of all time 🔥🏆

Story has a happy ending though: we crushed those fools.

I can understand why the default would be to trust that NHL teams know more about every aspect of the game than random bloggers.

Congrats to Tyler Dellow and Dennis King. We're now at four Oiler bloggers who have won cups. Dynasty?

The Canes are an extremely likable team. Happy for so many of those guys...absolutely left no doubt, too

RT @Menzies_4: The Carolina Hurricanes just had one of the most dominant playoff runs in NHL history going 16-3. Teams with a better play…

Every blogger hire on this Canes team should go by their twitter handle on the cup engraving

My guess is the Oilers eat about ~14% on Nurse's contract & send out a pick and/or prospect & get back a top-6 W & a salary dump 3rd pair D

McDavid. Lol

Kings new coach Laviolette corrects pronunciation of San Diego in 'Anchorman' reference nhl.com/news/kings-peter-lav…

Funny a team that struggled to perform in the playoffs added those 3 and that pushed them to the next level. Almost like people overly jump to conclusions on small samples and biased beliefs.