On Monday, the NHL released a memorandum describing its protocol for phase 2 of its return-to-play plan. The 21-page document lays out how the NHL will bring players back to their teams’ cities and protect their health as they begin training again.
It is an unserious plan that will put lives at risk.
By Peter Hassett 4 days ago
You might remember that last year the Caps, because of our urging, got a dog. Captain is that dog and he is perfect. We are close, personal friends who have never met.
Today, Captain (my friend) needs your help. This is important.
Please vote for Captain as the NHL’s best team dog in the NHL Fan Choice Awards.
By Peter Hassett 3 weeks ago
On Wednesday afternoon, Caps forward (for now, hopefully not for long) Brendan Leipsic was exposed using hateful, misogynistic language. Wednesday evening, Leipsic released an apology via Twitter.
It was bad.
By Peter Hassett 3 weeks ago
The world is on pause, and so we find ourselves with time at last to ponder the big questions. By overwhelming popular demand, here comes Not Up For Debate, our most popular series ever.
In this episode: Enough escapist fantasy. It’s time to get real. If all society broke down tomorrow, like totally hypothetically, who would the Caps be in the dystopic hellscape?
By Peter Hassett 4 weeks ago
The world is on pause, and so we find ourselves with time at last to ponder the big questions. By overwhelming popular demand, here comes Not Up For Debate, our most popular series ever.
In this episode: The Caps as an upstairs/downstairs costume drama with a body count bigger than Game of Thrones.
By Peter Hassett 4 weeks ago
The world is on pause, and so we find ourselves with time at last to ponder the big questions. By overwhelming popular demand, here comes Not Up For Debate, our most popular series ever.
In this episode: What if the Washington Capitals were involved in Baltimore’s criminal underworld?
By Peter Hassett 4 weeks ago
The world is on pause, and so we find ourselves with time at last to ponder the big questions. By overwhelming popular demand, here comes Not Up For Debate, our most popular series ever.
In this episode: What beloved animals from the internet would the 2019-20 Caps be?
By Peter Hassett 1 month ago
It’s long been assumed by the statistically inclined that hockey — at least at the NHL level and at least in the contemporary era — produces outcomes that are, in the most modest sense, somewhat stochastic. This apparent and ineffable stochasticity, along with the dearth of uniform and readily available microevent data (along with the admitted decrepitude of STEM education in North America), represents a force majeur challenge to quantitative analysis and quantitative analysts — or particularly those of the Bayesian persuasion — and I surely do not mean to paint all quants with that specific brush — to hew and hone a de rigeur model for predicting results.
By Peter Hassett 1 month ago
Happy Friday. Yes. It’s Friday.
Today at noon, Peter’s (that’s me!) music project, Late-Night Delivery released its second record, an EP called Core/Classic. It’s up on all the streaming platforms now. It’s weird, but maybe you’ll like it.
By Peter Hassett 2 months ago
