We're so back

It's that time of year - the 25-26 NHL season is here!

The '25-26 NHL season begins today, which means our team projections are out! We released our initial preseason projections on Sunday (article on the site!), and we spent the entire episode discussing the projections and our thoughts on each division. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

## '25-26 NHL Team Projections ## They're up. They're live. Have fun but be safe. evolving-hockey.com/blog/2025-20...

The '25-26 NHL season starts in two weeks and (not) surprisingly, there's still nothing happening. We spent the entire episode trying to evaluate teams based on our general feelings before the EH projections are finished. It went about as well as you would expect. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

And we're off

We're getting back into the swing of things, even if there's only one thing going on right now (see: title). We spent the first half rambling about our respective other favorite sports (bowling and golf, obviously). Later, we analyzed the Kaprizov "situation". www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

Fantasy Projections are up on the site! We spent the first half chatting about the MN State Fair and burning yards before moving on to the topic at hand. Later we covered our under-covered (our fault) GAR projections and good defensemen. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

ICYMI: our fantasy projections for the 25-26 NHL season are live!

# - Announcement - # NHL Fantasy Projections for the '25-26 season have been updated and are now live on the site! Check out our Glossary section for information on how the projections/tools work! Projections: evolving-hockey.com/stats/fantas... Glossary: evolving-hockey.com/glossary/fan...

Marco Rossi signed a contract and nothing else happened. It's been a few weeks since our last episode, and after a (much needed) break from hockey this summer, we're back to chat about essentially everything but that. This was a bit shorter, but we're just vibing. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

We, without much thought to it, ended up taking a long break this July. But now that we have all contracts tracked, we can evaluate our projection model and discuss the market. We spent the whole episode doing just that, and talking bowling. It's fun to be back. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

Despite a weak free agency class, myriad contracts signed before July 1st, and an excess of money still in teams' hands, over 200 contracts have been signed in the last week. We spent the entire episode talking about the interesting ones. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

It's everything you could ever want. Our 2025 NHL Free Agency Preview article is up! This summer is going to be insane. Or it might not be. That would better for our models. evolving-hockey.com/blog/evolvin...

It's our annual Free Agency Preview episode! We spent the first half covering an exceptionally active last week and the second half discussing our preview of things to come. Also included: the draft, schedule changes, data annoyances, and bowling. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

ICMYI: Our GAR projections for the 25-26 season now are live!

Skater GAR Projections for the '25-26 season are now live on the site! Projections can be found here: evolving-hockey.com/stats/player... Have fun!

The Panthers are your 2025 Stanley Cup Champions! We spent the first half covering the final, discussing team strength, and talking about portable CD players and podcasts. Later we covered the surprising number of trades and signings over the last two weeks. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

And with that, the 24-25 NHL season comes to a close. We were cheering for a game 7, but the Panthers simply played too well. Thanks for sticking with us! We're looking forward to free agency!

Panthers vs. Oilers, Game 5. Let's go

The 24-25 Stanley Cup Finals through 4 games. What a series.

The 2025 Stanley Cup Final is here! Remember, have fun. And listen to Boyz II Men for some reason. evolving-hockey.com/blog/evolvin...

The 2025 Stanley Cup Final is here! Remember, have fun. And listen to Boyz II Men for some reason. evolving-hockey.com/blog/evolvin...

It was a pretty exciting game from a win probability standpoint, but not really from a Corsi or xG standpoint... Regardless, Florida is moving on to the Stanley Cup Finals.

We fixed the bug that caused this, and data for the 2025-05-18 FLA @ TOR game has been added to the site (as well as yesterday's FLA @ CAR game). Everything should, hopefully, be smooth sailing until the end of the playoffs!

ICYMI: Our third round projections are out!

It's NHL Conference Finals time. We got you. evolving-hockey.com/blog/evolvin...

There was an issue with our daily update process, and we were unable to add the data from yesterday’s game. This should be updated within the next 24 hours. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Really solid performance by the Jets - they limited Dallas substantially for most of the game. Can the Jets pull off major comebacks in back-to-back series to make it to the WCF?? (we try to stay neutral here at Evolving-Hockey.com, but I kinda hope so ngl)

[very much wanting a game 7 from the second round]: C'mon let's go Winnipeg!

It feels like we've done this episode before, but this time we got to talk about terrifying children's movies and our love for Moneyball along the way. We spent the whole episode covering the specifics of the contract model (w/ a little playoff talk at the end). www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

ICYMI contract projections for the 2025 NHL offseason are up on the site!

# - Big Release - # Contract Projections for the 2025 NHL offseason are now live on the site for Pro subscribers. We even took the time to do a little write-up about this year's projections! Check it out. Be safe and have fun. evolving-hockey.com/blog/contrac...

Our contract projections for the 2025 offseason will be out early tomorrow morning. Apologies for the delay - there were a few hangups with our manual contract tracking process that delayed things.

Oh, what a treat the first round was - something to cherish. We move on to round two, and once again, we've got you covered. We spent the first half haphazardly moving through our first round impressions, and spent the second half discussing round two. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

ICMYI: Our second round preview is up!

Alright, we're ready for round two!

## ROUND 2 ## The first round was phenomenal. Let's carry that into the second, eh? Our projections and previews for the second round series are up now. I'm still thinking about that Jets game. Let's go. evolving-hockey.com/blog/evolvin...

A game for the ages. The Jets made a seemingly impossible comeback and Hellebuyck redeemed himself after a very shaky start. He ended with basically 0 GSAx this game. You really can't get any better than this.

Just an absolutely incredible turnaround in Dallas tonight. Colorado led all teams in 5v5 Corsi-For percentage and was 2nd (behind Edmonton) in xGF % in the first round. Just win baby.

PSA: Contract Projections for the 2025 NHL offseason will likely be released sometime next week - we're shooting for May 7th or 8th. The playoff schedule is moving a little faster than we were expecting, which delayed things a bit. We'll have an announcement here and on the site when they're up!

One Big Game 6 Today

Nailed it

We're one week into the NHL playoffs, and the twins were late from dodging tornadoes. We spent the whole episode discussing terrifying Habs fans, Hellebuyck, the unlikely Wild, the Leafs over-performing worst players, and amazing forkballs. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

Fun win probability chart for the game in Edmonton tonight. Hoping this series goes the distance.

Carolina seemed to lose some steam there at the end...

The first round has been quite the treat this year. I can't remember a day of playoffs that were this close in our game projection model.

We released our round 1 playoff preview on the site a few days ago. First, we had to get some irritations with the NHL remote viewing experience off our chests. We then spent the entire episode discussing every round 1 matchup! These episodes are always a blast. www.buzzsprout.com/1836821/epis...

# - 2025 NHL playoffs: Round 1 - # Our full preview for the first round is up. We're a day late but never a word short. The Carolina Hurricanes are an insane team from a modeling perspective. Check it out! Article link: evolving-hockey.com/blog/evolvin... -- Eastern Conference projections:

PSA: we'll have our full Round 1 playoff preview up early Sunday morning. I know that's a day late, but the transition from the regular season to the playoffs is just a little too quick for our small team to get the full writeup done in a day.