Category: Number Munchers

Number Munchers: Examining the Blackhawks numbers in the King era

By Dave Melton | Jan 18th 2022 | 4 min read |

Following Monday’s loss to the Seattle Kraken, the Chicago Blackhawks have now played 27 games in the Derek King era, amassing a 14-9-4 record. That...

Number Munchers: Quantifying the Blackhawks’ dreadful start

By Dave Melton | Oct 18th 2021 | 4 min read |

That certainly wasn’t the script for the start of this season, was it? After an abysmal trio of games in four nights, the Chicago Blackhawks are off...

Numbers Munchers: Recapping the 2021 Blackhawks team performance

By Dave Melton | May 24th 2021 | 4 min read |

As we’ve started diving into the season that was for the 2021 Blackhawks, most of the articles have focused on the players on a more individual basi...

Blackhawks’ 6-1-3 run sits on a shaky foundation

By Dave Melton | Feb 10th 2021 | 3 min read |

Watching a team outperform expectations is one of the purest joys a sports fan can enjoy. That’s what made the the Blackhawks’ recent 10-game stre...

Number Munchers: Revisiting Blackhawks’ 2019-20 regular season performance

By Dave Melton | Jul 15th 2020 | 4 min read |

With NHL training camps in full swing across the League, we’re back to continuing our month-long quest to remind ourselves who the 2019-20 Blackhawk...

Number Munchers: Can the Blackhawks sustain their recent success?

By Dave Melton | Jan 28th 2020 | 4 min read |

For the second straight season it’s a similar story for the Blackhawks. In the middle of the season, with playoff hopes dwindling, Chicago put toget...

Number Munchers: Spooky statistics from Blackhawks’ dreadful October

By Dave Melton | Nov 1st 2019 | 2 min read |

Through the first 11 games of the 2019-20 season, the Blackhawks have won only three games. And, as we revive our Numbers Munchers series for the firs...

Breaking down the Blackhawks’ trends in shot rates, goal differential

By Matt Lucas | Jan 29th 2019 | 5 min read |

It was not too long ago when the Blackhawks were the model of puck possession in the NHL. For five straight seasons after the 2013 Stanley Cup run, th...

Examining the Blackhawks’ microscopic playoff hopes in this week’s ‘Number Munchers’

By Dave Melton | Jan 17th 2019 | 3 min read |

The Blackhawks’ most recent slide — they’ve gone 1-3-3 in the last seven games — have slowly erased any optimism that was building about a pot...

Number Munchers: Analyzing Expected Goals for the Blackhawks

By Matt Lucas | Jan 4th 2019 | 2 min read |

One of the major issues surrounding the Blackhawks this season is their lack of scoring depth. Besides Patrick Kane (0.55 goals per game), Alex DeBrin...