Kate 🧷

(She/her.) Hockey, sometimes w/ analytics—I share them, don't make them. Preds fan; runs @OnTheForecheck. Not sticking to sports. • 📝 tweets: @krussellwrites

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

And yes, I want SO BADLY to go back to talking about sports, but I can't ignore the daily onslaught of political horrors. I'd love to stick to sports. I am trying to help make this a world where I CAN stick to sports.

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@OnTheForecheck tbf, I think it's supposed to be

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@TheHockeyBoomer @BryanBastin I'm heartless and cruel 😔

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@BryanBastin I am also the em dash user /o\

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@William91728460 Because it's a hypothetical offense! This isn't a thinkpiece responding to an actual dirty play that occurred and took MacKinnon out of the series, it's a pre-series breakdown of how the teams match up, and my original tweet was sent well before puck drop.

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@William91728460 I think we may be coming at a similar opinion from very different angles, since my objection is pretty much entirely about journalists/broadcasters/analysts legitimizing a nuclear deterrence strategy (which I'm sure coaches do consider) instead of demanding the NHL do better.

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@William91728460 (It's obviously a different conversation if we were supposed to assume Josi or Duchene to be the one carrying out the "attack", but I don't think either of them has enough of a rep for dangerous plays (as distinct from penalties in general) that we should be assuming that.)

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@William91728460 But even if one is talking about the game as it currently is, there's a huge difference between "if John Doe hurts MacKinnon someone should hurt him" and "if John Doe hurts MacKinnon someone should hurt a completely unrelated player".

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@William91728460 I can both think that /and/ think that we shouldn't talk about targeting star players as a legitimate strategy, especially giving the example of a player who's arguably risking not just his career but his long-term quality of life every shift.

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@William91728460 I think the NHL ought to ban head contact and actually enforce that ban—they're able to suspend as severely as they do for PED use because it's so much easier to prove intent, but something like that might be what it takes.

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@JhanHky Roman Josi has had at least eight diagnosed concussions and this is an incredibly unethical take

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@OnTheForecheck Scream?

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@_nsmorgan @Laura_R_C @OnTheForecheck I also stand by Nick saying it.

I'd add 1) that Twitter has no native spoiler coding, meaning it's impossible to cover profanity, and 2) many people who like to spew bigotry online view self-censorship (like, say, "****face", here) as an admission of weakness.

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@jjmid04 @RachelKH79 @AnnK_MamaOnIce @_nsmorgan @OnTheFutureOTF @carsoncashion @BBQTUCK @jessbelmosto 💛💛

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

Whew, that's not the right lesson to be taking away from "there were consequences for ignoring the puck to target an opponent's head in garbage time", while also being exactly the lesson I feared would be taken.

[Murat Ates @WPGMurat]

"I thought I was going to be tried to be shut down by Phillip Danault," says Mark Scheifele. "Instead it was department of player safety that shut me down."

[Peter Hassett 🌕🐉 @peterhassett]

"Until [the NHL penalizes all contact to the head], we should probably stop calling them the Department of Player Safety. That’s not what they do."

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@aschnitt53 Just absolutely baffling! How can so many ownership groups keep passing this genius mind over?

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

If you only ever listened to 200 Hockey Men, you'd assume the Hurricanes ditched their entire analytics department the day they got the personnel to start winning more games than they lost.

I don't even know what to say about the Oilers thing.

[NHL Watcher @NHL_Watcher]

McGuire on TSN690: "The two teams that have been built through analytics and they are both on the outside looking in: the Toronto Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers."

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

Also obviously the Avalanche leaned heavily into analytics around the time they ditched Roy and started winning but it's the "haha the Canes suck, computer boys" --> "computer what? they don't have those in Raleigh" turnaround I'm most 🙄 at.

[Kate 🧷 @statswithkate]

@AndyAxel @RadekBort @kmartel_sports Nine, I think