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hockeyinthecarolinas.com - Your destination for information & sport analytics on the major and minor professional teams in the Carolinas & related hockey content


Winston-Salem, North Carolina

#NHL #AHL #ECHL #FPHL #SPHL #hockey #sports #NC #SC #Canes
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Data quality is very important, more than ever. And there is a lot that can be measured...

@fdion.bsky.social did seminars on those but a lot of companies totally ignore that and just pull data from the web with no validation and build blackbox models that can't be explained, what could go wrong.
Various (a bakers dozen) aspects of data quality from accuracy to validity (and a few opposites, like completeness <->sparcity and representativeness <-> bias)
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
hitcarolinas.bsky.social
These two are very similar, the lines are almost atop each other ( #Montreal #Canadiens Cole Caufield, #Colorado #Avalanche Nathan MacKinnon)
plot of goals scored by date, Cole Caufield and Nathan MacKinnon highlighted, very similar curves, but with MacKinnon ahead by 2 goals
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
hitcarolinas.bsky.social
Anybody else using #plotly and getting contour lines on single points? Wasn't the case in the past, wonder when it broke...

#python #dataviz #bug

Example:
contour lines on a plot with a single data point (SJS goal in 2nd period of game vs CAR)
October 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
hitcarolinas.bsky.social
A few enhancements to our website. Besides the search, you can actually page through our articles on the home page, or any of the league or team specific sections using the navigation at the bottom of each page. You can catch up on all the good stuff we've been posting for months
Showing the bottom of a page. Links for Previous Page and Next Page are in blue, as hyperlinks. The pages themselves have a picture, a title and a short blurb for each article. Clicking on the title will take you to the article. Or you could use the search feature...
October 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
hitcarolinas.bsky.social
#NHL #AHL #ECHL #Hockey schedules and scores for all the teams in the #Carolinas #NC #SC
We'll soon be adding the #SPHL and #FPHL scores too

hockeyinthecarolinas.com/schedule
NHL, AHL and ECHL schedule and scores
October 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
hitcarolinas.bsky.social
#ECHL #Hockey - we now have a schedule / score tracker on the ECHL page (and #Gargoyles, #SwampRabbits, #Stingrays and #Lions pages).

hockeyinthecarolinas.com/tags/echl
Score tracker on our ECHL page. Includes a link to game centers
October 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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That's pretty lopsided... #Greensboro #Gargoyles #ECHL #Hockey
Gargoyles 18 shots 1st period, 3 in 2nd so far for 21 total Icemen 3 shots in 1st period, 0 in 2nd so far for 3 total
October 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
hitcarolinas.bsky.social
Similarly to no video stream for the Greensboro - Jacksonville #ECHL #hockey game, there is no video feed for the Pee Dee Ice Cats #FPHL #IceCats
October 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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#FPHL also starting their season with a bang, or at least quite a few games, with Florence, SC (CRD@PIC) getting pro #hockey back after 18 years
October 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Not the Bussy you are looking for
October 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Might be pre-season #NHL #hockey, but the software worked. Score got updated, and link to gamecenter worked.

hockeyinthecarolinas.com/home
September 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
hitcarolinas.bsky.social
Allows you to do visualizations like this one:

Age of players in Defense, for groups C1 and C2 in descending order, or Weight distribution of said players, again by groups.

#RaiseUp #Canes training camp 2025 #NHL #Hockey
Age of defense players, in group c1 (established) and c2 (new players) Weight distribution for defense players, by group C1 and C2. Average weight on C2 players is slightly lower, but further at both extremes.
September 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
hitcarolinas.bsky.social
We also have the same on the expats page, with the #NHL #Hockey #Montreal #Canadiens #Habs

hockeyinthecarolinas.com/tags/expats
Montreal upcoming games in the sport ticker on the Hockey in the Carolinas website, in the expats section
September 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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There's one more prospect game for the #NHL #Hockey #RaiseUp #Canes and then we are going into pre-season games. Ticker is enabled for NHL games. We'll be adding more leagues so you know what not to miss during each week.

hockeyinthecarolinas.com/home
Ticker with upcoming Carolina games on Hockey in the Carolinas
September 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
hitcarolinas.bsky.social
Woah, y'all are really missing #hockey, that's a lot of visitors
Visitors: 1695
September 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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And here it is. You can filter to only Goalie, only Defense or only Forwards. It also automatically detects goalie stats and suggests using the filter. That way you can use the color grouping to look at other things, like contract, SO etc.

#dataviz #analytics #chicago #wolves
Bar chart, per player points. Here, filter by Forwards only (LW, RW, C or just F). Can leave color grouping as is, or here, used GP (games played), while keeping the sort by points.
July 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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With the interactive visualizations, you can do interesting bar charts, or a box plot. Hover each box and you get min/max, outliers, mean, median etc. make it horizontal, notched. #dataviz #analytics #visualization #chicago #wolves #ahl #carolina #hurricanes #prospects #nhl #sportsanalytics #hockey
+/- for all players, grouped by position, with outliers (one, on D)
July 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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On the homepage of the #Greensboro #Gargoyles, there is a link to Season Tickets. the image for that is a bit strange, they chose a picture from a 2022 game between the #Wichita #Thunder, and i'm guessing the other team is wearing a specialty zebra jersey, don't recognise. #Komets, perhaps? #echl
On ice picture, goalie stopping the puck, can't read his name. His jersey number is 50. From the opposing team (Wichita Thunder), we see Mark Liwinski (how we know it is from the 2022-2023 season). Some other players not easily identifiable. What is that team with those weird zebra jerseys?
July 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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There were a few issues with the advanced features on our articles, when using a phone to browse. The interactive charts were missing completely. We added static charts for those. Tables were also static, now, if they are interactive on the desktop, they'll be also on mobile.
bar chart for years 2019 to 2025 of the draft, Carolina Hurricanes picks of Russian players vs other nationalities. Screenshot from a mobile phone showing the menu at the top, the table in the middle and chart at the bottom
June 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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The story so far for the #Canes in the #draft

2 Cs, 2 D,s a G and a LW
6 rounds, 6 picks by Carolina Hurricanes. One round to go
June 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
hitcarolinas.bsky.social
Under the stats table for Cole Reschny seasons, there is the [plot] button. Click it & click the asc. checkbox. Finally, click on Saskatoon on the legend. That's the trend for Reschny's points per game in the WHL. Going straight up. #nhl #draft #carolina #hurricanes #dataviz #sportsanalytics #data
points per game going straight up over the past 3 seasons
June 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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For example, if I put G (goals) for size, and sort by GWG (game winning goals) it shows that although not the Points winner, Logan Stankoven ranked first for GWG with the lowest G/A

#Carolina #Hurricanes #RaiseUp #Canes #nhl #hockey
GWG from highest to lowest (one would click asc. to reverse)
June 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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When you click on it, it show a plot area, with scatter plot on left (w/ x, y axis, legend). hidden menu at the top and selection of x, y, color, size, symbol and sort order on the right. More coming.
#hockey #analytics #nhl

Try it here on the first table:

hockeyinthecarolinas.com/show/2025-ca...
Plot area, as described in the text
June 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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New feature alert!

We can now add interactive plots to specific table, to help understand the data, visually. When that is featured, there is a Plot dropdown button right next to the find box below the table.

#hockey #analytics #dataviz #data #sportsanalytics

When you click on this...
An explanatory table with a new button below it
June 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
hitcarolinas.bsky.social
Beside the sorting, you can also type some text in the box below any table to filter. For example, want to see how many in our top 10 are from #sweden ?

#nhl #draft #hockey
a table on our website, filtered by "swe", showing only players from Sweden
June 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM