“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

Top 10 Projected Players by Position for 2025-26: Defencemen Quinn Hughes begins the season as the Norris favourite for 2025-26. Dallas is the only team with multiple showings here, with Harley at 10th and Heiskanen in the top 5. 📈 lb-hockey.com

New post: Introducing RAPM for transition stats. Which players are pushing the puck up ice driving creating more time in the offensive zone? It turns out play on entries has a far greater impact that play on exits. open.substack.com/pub/puckover...

⬡⬢⬡ HockeyViz 2025-2026 Season Preview ⬢⬡⬢ hockeyviz.com/txt/preview2... Detailed skill and icetime breakdowns for every team, and a million simulations of the upcoming NHL seasons. There are many, many graphs.

TONY WINGELS 🤌🤌🤌

Top 10 Projected Players by Position for 2025-26: Goalies Connor Hellebuyck looks to defend his Hart and Vezina titles as he's projected to lead the goalie pack again. Dustin Wolf meanwhile hopes to continue building on a stellar rookie season. 📈 lb-hockey.com

starting work on the sens season preview article

Top 10 Projected Players by Category for 2025-26: Transition A healthy season for Jack Hughes would remind everyone how supremely talented he is off the rush. Jackson LaCombe & Macklin Celebrini also look to prove that last year was not an aberration. 📈 lb-hockey.com

New article up on LB-Hockey! 🚨🏒 In this one, we detail all the changes completed throughout the summer from an overhauled SPAR model, to tons of new features in the player cards, and plenty more content & improvements throughout the site. 🔗 lb-hockey.com/2025/09/25/s...

Jet Lag: All-Stars is everything I hoped it would be and more so far

New article up on LB-Hockey! 🚨🏒 In this one, we detail all the changes completed throughout the summer from an overhauled SPAR model, to tons of new features in the player cards, and plenty more content & improvements throughout the site. 🔗 lb-hockey.com/2025/09/25/s...

Joyeux 50e anniversaire du drapeau franco-ontarien à tous nos partisans 💚

qui d'autre porte du vert pour la journée du drapeau franco-ontarien 😤

IMO, Zub has turned into one of the most underrated shutdown partners in the league. He's always been a solid DFD but his ability to clear the front of the net, snuff entry chances, and generally suppress offense has become near top-of-the-league. But why isn't that the general feeling? (cont...)

Top 10 Projected Players by Category for 2025-26: Checking No surprise to see Florida's stars lead the pack, but there are still a good bit of young guns here. Seth Jarvis, Matthew Knies, and Wyatt Johnston all get to show off their powerful arsenal. 📈 lb-hockey.com

New painting: Gwyn Philips, Ottawa Charge

Zub is the constant. if he appears better or worse it is merely a reflection of the world moving around him

I've seen various opinions on him but do you think Zub has gotten a little better, a little worse, or the same in the last couple years?

Lost in the shuffle there was some great quick thinking & hands by Ollie Lycksell to establish possession and start the cycle in the o-zone leading up to that flurry of chances for Ottawa

Trying out some homemade Hawaiian Lunch Plate for the first time with Huli-Huli Chicken & Lomi-Lomi (salmon tomato salad)

Gord Miller & Mike Johnson calling a Sens game, we are so back folks

Top 10 Projected Players by Category for 2025-26: Zone Defence Sanderson ranks incredibly high in all our d-zone metrics whether that's chance suppression, retrievals, or puck management. Seider's underlyings are catching up to his reputation now too. 📈 lb-hockey.com

Top 10 Projected Players by Category for 2025-26: Zone Offence We are now on to our 2025-26 Projections! First we'll break them down by categories aka different areas of a player's game. Zone Offence is straightforward leading with the usual suspects. 📈 lb-hockey.com

Top 10 Player Seasons in the New Era (2021-25) Finally, the full top 10 is here! It's a very prestigious group that has 12 total award seasons between them: - 3 Rockets - 2 Art Ross - 2 Harts - 2 Ted Lindsays - 1 Conn Smythe - 1 Vezina - 1 Jennings 📈 lb-hockey.com

The start of the NHL season is a couple weeks away and I am working hard on adding new features to The Stanley Cap. Today I am not really announcing a new feature but making a request. I am introducing Subscription Plans and asking for your support. www.thestanleycap.com/subscriptions

SKOL

What an afternoon of football oh my god

48-3. Bengals with the biggest deficit in the history of their franchise.

Man I wish I could skate like Jordan Spence

What. A. Half.

Isaiah Rodgers best offensive half by a defensive player of all time???

Simply, the ✨ Vikings ✨

Top 10 Player Seasons in the New Era (2021-25) Finally, the full top 10 is here! It's a very prestigious group that has 12 total award seasons between them: - 3 Rockets - 2 Art Ross - 2 Harts - 2 Ted Lindsays - 1 Conn Smythe - 1 Vezina - 1 Jennings 📈 lb-hockey.com

so this autocorrect is how I find out that "sensically" is not a word

Top 10 Player Seasons by Position in the New Era (2021-25): Goalie 2022-23 was an unreal year for goalies, as they make up 4 of the top 5 seasons of this new era. Hellebuyck & Vasilevskiy are the only two tendies to make multiple appearances here. 📈 lb-hockey.com

Top 10 Player Seasons by Position in the New Era (2021-25): Defence Werenski's 2024-25 season was Norris-worthy, no player has had a higher transition score in our model since 2021. Hughes & Makar hold the other highest scores from the last couple years. 📈 lb-hockey.com

Top 10 Player Seasons by Position in the New Era (2021-25): Winger Some nice variety in the wingers list, but the russian duo of Kucherov & Kaprizov stand out as the best and most consistent. Some great 2023-24 and 2021-22 performances in here. 📈 lb-hockey.com

It's true, here at LB-Hockey we love our Chabot propaganda

NEW EPISODE! We are back! Listen to us explain a popular Sens twitter offseason meme known as "chabbyhorse posting," and also predict the upcoming season or whatever zencastr.com/z/kVwjnO1C

missed opportunity to use this one from roughly the halfway point of the walk instead

We’re officially on Sens advertising now

Top 10 Player Seasons by Position in the New Era (2021-25): Centre McDavid, MacKinnon, Matthews, & Draisaitl make up the entirety of the top 10 seasons from centremen since 2021. 📈 lb-hockey.com

What are you all hoping to see from the Sens' day 1 lines? Any specific combos at forward? Defensive pairs that intrigue you?

Top 10 Player Seasons by Franchise in the New Era (2021-25): WPG Hellebuyck's dominance is apparent here, with a significant gap between his top 3 seasons and the rest of the Jets. Morrissey's resurgence in this era has been a joy to watch too. 📈 lb-hockey.com

Top 10 Player Seasons by Franchise in the New Era (2021-25): WSH All the 2024-25 players here show how the Caps exceeded expectations. Ovie continues to be undervalued by the model, while Thompson gets respect for finishing 4th in Vezina voting last year. 📈 lb-hockey.com

Top 10 Player Seasons by Franchise in the New Era (2021-25): VGK Vegas holds one of the highest % of dmen in their top 10, thanks to Theodore's unreal consistency. There would be more Stone & Eichel seasons but injuries put them under the GP minimum. 📈 lb-hockey.com

Top 10 Player Seasons by Franchise in the New Era (2021-25): VAN Quinn Hughes' growth these last few years has been so fun to watch. The other main pieces here such as Demko & EP have shown great peaks, it's just a matter of syncing them back up. 📈 lb-hockey.com

Top 10 Player Seasons by Franchise in the New Era (2021-25): TOR Matthews, Marner, Nylander. These 3 make up the entirety of Toronto's top 10 seasons since 2021. Does Knies break into these ranks next season? Can a fully healthy Stolarz push for it? 📈 lb-hockey.com

3.25M x 2 years projects to be a solid deal for the Flames, and is fairly close to our projection on an extension for Backlund. He remains one of the better shutdown centres out there thanks to his suppression ability, d-zone involvement and application of pressure all over the ice. 📈 lb-hockey.com

love that my NHL team just straight up said, "Yeah we're not keeping Alex Formenton"