Nashville Preds surprise youth hockey game

Thought this was pretty cool. 
The Nashville Predators surprise a youth hockey game by bringing the full NHL experience to the rink. The families and kids are stunned to see and hear the NHL announcer, Paul McCann, the national anthem, Gnash, and about 250 fans take over the game.

The nhlnumbers.com Reference Library

Over at nhlnumbers.com, Eric T. has been compiling a nice Reference Library with "articles that have advanced our understanding of the game in some small way."  Quality.

Adjusted Plus-Minus

Many of the projects I've worked on are related to Adjusted Plus-Minus (APM), so I thought I'd make that my first real, actual post. 

APM is a plus-minus-like statistic that improves over plus-minus in many ways.  Over at behindthenethockey.com and/or arcticicehockey.com, I wrote a four-part blog series describing how the statistic is calculated, the improvements that it is has over plus-minus, and some of the results for best offensive, defensive, and overall players at even strength.  Here are links to those posts: