Benny’s Buddies got to meet the Stanley Cup today.
#FlaPanthers forward Sam Bennett paid for 41 adoptions at the Humane Society of Broward this year for his 41 goals scored this season (25 regular season, 15 playoffs, 1 4 Nations Face-Off)
Carolina Hurricanes GM Eric Tulsky has a PhD in Chemistry from Berkeley.
Before joining the NHL team in 2014, he was offered a job with Apple to work on battery technology (but turned it down).
He started in analytics department and has since hired neuroscientists and mechanical engineers for the Hurricanes.
A recent NYT profile has this great 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.” ⬅️
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NYT/The Athletic: https://t.co/EgO3Qonz6S
Hope everyone has a very, very tight weekend. Please, if you can, try your best to be an Agent of Stoke. A Prince of Pump. Shit rules. Even if things may be feeling kinda lame. Get stoked. Chill. Let go of the BS if it comes for you and tries to lay claim upon your peace.
Last night a Wisconsin bar ran a promo that patrons drink free if the Jets lose.
After Rodgers got hurt, everyone ran up their tab.
A news channel was live when the Jets won in OT and everyone realized they had to pay.