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So Hayley Scamurra (Toronto) has the opportunity tonight to fill in one of her missing teams as Boston is one of the two teams she hasn't yet scored a goal against yet. That would leave only Ottawa -- and Toronto plays Ottawa on Sunday!

Scamurra (TOR) is missing goals against OTT and BOS Bach (OTT) is missing goals against TOR and NYC Vanisova (OTT) is missing goals against BOS and NYC Adzija (BOS) is missing goals against MTL and OTT Watts (TOR) is missing a goal only against OTT.

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The five players for whom I believe it's currently possible are Hayley Scamurra (TOR), Victoria Bach (OTT), Tereza Vanisova (OTT), Lexie Adzija (BOS), and Daryl Watts (TOR). @pwhlsceptres.bsky.social @pwhlcharge.bsky.social @pwhlfleet.bsky.social

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I've posted before about the five players in the race to be the first player in the PWHL to have scored at least one goal against each of the six teams. That list is composed of players who, while playing for a different team, scored a goal against the team they're on now. #PWHL

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Power rankings with no #2. Brilliant! Notably, if the Toronto Sceptres win in regulation tonight, and the Boston Fleet win in regulation on Sunday, then five of the six teams in the league will be below 0.500. (Minnesota would be in 2nd place with 26 points in 18 games for a PCT of 0.481) #PWHL

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The Rivalry Series is wonderful hockey. It's like an All-Star game except it's meaningful and the players are going all-out. #PWHL

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Today could be the day! Daryl Watts has the opportunity to become the first player in the PWHL to have scored a goal against each of the league's six teams @thepwhl.com @pwhlsceptres.bsky.social #PWHL #TorontoSceptres

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Victoria Bach of the has a chance in tonight's Ottawa Charge game against the New York Sirens to score a goal that moves her closer to being the first player to score a goal against each of the six PWHL teams @pwhlcharge.bsky.social @pwhlsirens.bsky.social @thepwhl.com

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A little typo in the six paragraph, there, that could stand as-is though probably isn't the word intended... :-)

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Something very cool might happen soon and tonight's PWHL game between the Toronto Sceptres and Boston Fleet could have an impact... #PWHL #TorontoSceptres #BostonFleet

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If Scamurra scores on BOS on the 22nd, she'd only be missing OTT... and if Bach scores on NYC on the 27th, she'd only be missing TOR... and Watts is already only missing OTT... So when Ottawa plays Toronto on Feb 1st at least one and possibly all three could be looking for a VERY special goal!

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The five players for whom I believe it's currently possible are Hayley Scamurra (TOR), Victoria Bach (OTT), Tereza Vanisova (OTT), Lexie Adzija (BOS), and Daryl Watts (TOR) who have all scored at least one goal against their current team.

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

So which PWHL player will be the first to score at least one goal against each of the league's six teams? By my reckoning, there are currently five players who have it in their sights, and it's actually possible that THREE of them could all do it in the same game! 🧵

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I'm pretty picky about hockey PxP and colour commentators, and I've got to say that I'm really enjoying Gigi Marvin's debut in the Sirens vs Fleet game. Not just "good for a first time" good but a "legitimate good" kind of good. #PWHL

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Add the option of being able to listen to in-arena audio rather than commentary and I'd consider that an incredibly compelling proposal...

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I see what you did there... :-)

That long-ago feeling came back to me this week on Bluesky. It's not just volume; it definitely feels like it has crossed some magic threshold where the burst of all kinds of different activity has changed it into something new and wonderful. (5/5) 🦋

There always came a point in time, though, where enough players were playing and some magic boundary was crossed, and all the market activity suddenly gelled and made the game "come alive". The number of bid and asks wasn't the crucial point; it was the number of different players/viewpoints. (4/5)

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The game grew (BaseballStocks, FootballStocks, GolfStocks) and at one point it even had a higher trading volume than the TSE. In the early days, however, when a new contest launched, and only a small number of people were playing, trade offers could sit for could feel like a long time. (3/5)

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An important note is that the stock trades weren't simulated; if you wanted to sell a stock, you didn't sell it to the "game", but instead you had to list it for sale at a price you chose and another player in the game needed to agree to buy it for that price for the transaction to take place. (2/5)

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Bluesky in the past week or so has reminded me of an experience I had many years ago. I had developed an online game called HockeyStocks where people were able to trade stocks based on their favourite hockey teams and it was structured as a contest with prizes to be won, etc. 🧵 (1/5)

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I was thinking the same thing. Ideally, you'd be able to include a verified domain handle but as an alias to your bsky.social subdomain.

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I’m very happy that hockey seems to have found a new home! I hope things are going well

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

A post of mine appeared twice and after I deleted one of them, vanished completely. Here it is again... Speaking of hockey, I've got to say I'm really looking forward to the upcoming PWHL season. The first one was wonderful, and I'm feeling very optimistic and excited for the second. #PWHL #LPHF

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I'm hoping/planning to post some form of analysis or data viz of each of this season's PWHL games, though we'll have to see if the data feed will still be there and if so, what data is included and if it includes any additional information over last year (player shifts would be nice). #PWHL #LPHF

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

My first post to Bluesky was a little over a year ago, and it wondered if "this puppy can take off". Apparently, it can and it's happening. In particular, I'm very happy that what feels like a critical mass of hockey people has materialized in the last week or so.

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Gilles Dignard @gdignard.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

The rule changes made me discover the Champions Hockey League and I must say it is a really enjoyable format and the hockey is very fun to watch. Highly recommended if you haven't already discovered it.

It will be very interesting to see how the CHL PP units lean in on this. I'm not sure how long the experiment will last, or if it will spread to other leagues, but it definitely be fun to watch it happen! And the quantification of the value of clearing the puck? A topic for perhaps another day.

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With the CHL moving to a PP goal not ending the Power Play, but instead scoring a goal short-handed being the event which ends the penalty, Connecticut would would have feasted on those new rules.

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Connecticut was the very embodiment of the power kill. Particularly notable was that Connecticut scored goals while on the PK (one goal per 968 seconds) at almost the same rate as Montreal did while on the Power Play (one goal per 908 seconds). Crazy numbers.

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Especially notable is Connecticut's PK. Near the bottom of the league defensively, but what definitely has to be factored in is how lethal they were in scoring short-handed goals. Here's the assessment for PK, but instead of Goals Allowed on PK, we use Net Goals Allowed

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The same metric is obviously available for the penalty kill units, again measuring how many goals per 2 minute of PK time.

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The ordering largely stays the same except for Boston, whose power play appears to be undervalued by measuring by the simple percentage calculation.

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As a baseline, for the traditional method of measuring power plays, the PHF was 16.4% and when measuring goals scored per 2 minutes of power play, the PHF league average was 0.198.

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Similarly, a power play which fails to score on a 5 minute power play is treated the same as failing to score on a 2 minute power play. So what if we measured instead by goals per 2 min of power play? (Or how many seconds of power-play time was required for each goal scored?)

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Also, the traditional measure is skewed by shorted penalties when one team takes a penalty while on the power play. If the penalties happen 10 seconds apart, for example, the accounting for each team will be the same for the 10 second power play as if they each had a full 2 minute power play.

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However, while simple, this traditional measure hides an important differentiator. A power play that took 45 seconds to score should measure better than one that took 75 seconds to score.

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The top PK units yields an interestingly different list

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Followers of the PHF last year will probably be able to guess the team but first, a quick recap of the bottom-line numbers of the special teams in the PHF in 2022-2023.

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Power plays will now end not on the PP team scoring but will if the shorthanded team scores. One of the leagues I looked at was the PHF and there is one particular PHF team which stood out as one that would have absolutely thrived under the CHL's new rules.

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