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Week 23 of the Nerdy 30: No More Raleigh Towels and Bear Markets
We’re into the home stretch of the regular season, folks, and the races for the final playoff spot in both the Western and Eastern Conferences are getting really exciting. However, we will avoid talking about the four teams involved for another week. It’s good to get another couple of games in to see if the […]
Week 22 of the Nerdy 30: Shark Attack and Philadelphia Flyin’
As the NHL is less than a month away from their postseason, it is important to acknowledge another postseason that came to an end. Last weekend, the Boston Pride were the first ever champions of the National Women’s Hockey League (or NWHL), defeating the Buffalo Beaut’s. Led by leading scorer Hillary Knight, the Pride were […]
Week 21 of the Nerdy 30: Deserted Hockey Rink and Wildin’ Out
So here we are, ladies and gentleman! We’re into the heart of March with five more weeks to go until we finally experience the true reason why we love professional hockey; the playoffs. The weather is getting warmer and society is getting more confused why we’re watching professional athletes play in cold rinks as a […]
Week 20 of the Nerdy 30: Staal’d out and Recovering from the Blues
Another year, another overrated trade deadline. That’s how it’s been for me every trade deadline Monday for me. But hey, at least it was a good way to spend my leap day! In all seriousness, the level of commitment for teams to make a trade throughout the NHL has turned to flat out timid, and […]
Week 19 of the Nerdy 30: 30 Leap-seconds Trade Deadline Update
With the trade deadline coming up, it’s time to take a look at all 30 NHL teams and see where they stand and what they need to do before February 29th at 3pm. Sometimes, there are days where I feel truly inspired to wax poetic and go in-depth with team I’m taking a look at […]
Week 18 of the Nerdy 30: Tamed Wild and Flying Red Wings
As we get closer to the trade deadline, it is time to eliminate another team as everyone has played over 53 games (or 8/14ths) this season. As much as I would like to Montreal and their decaying corpse of a season, I need to know that Carey Price has a chance of playing this season […]
Week 17 of the Nerdy 30: Quack Attack and a Wild Emergency
Now that we are out of the boring annual occasion that is the NHL All Star Weekend, I am finally glad that we can go ahead and proceed to some real hockey, especially now that we are into the month February and we got a trade deadline to discuss in less than three weeks. But […]
Week 15 & 16 of the Nerdy 30: Jet Lagged and Carey’s Price is Right
We have finally made it to the All Star Break and as a result, the next power rankings post won’t come up until February 8th. This isn’t to say that I’ll be on vacation but instead this is more so that another week’s worth of games can come in to make change in where teams […]
Week 14 of the Nerdy 30: Raked Leafs and Toothless Predators
Before we start this week’s power rankings for the NHL, I just want to give a big thank you to those that have been working for war-on-ice.com since it’s inception in the Fall of 2014. Without them, we would have never had the world of hockey analytics reach another step. Whether it was re-defining what […]
Week 13 of the Nerdy 30: Playing 500
I don’t mean to brag, but as a Capitals fan, I don’t know if I can think of a more fitting title for this week’s Nerdy 30 than that. Through all the torture and turmoil being a Washington DC sports fan has been over the years, there hasn’t been one athlete that has brought me […]
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