Yes, well, underlying #s, possession stats, all that malarkey, nice to talk 'bout if you got a column to write.  But, analytics in hockey is the most overrated data there is in all sports.

You see, and you know, that goaltending and luck account for over 75% in figuring which team is going to win.  Puck possession is way down on the list of factors, so far down it should barely get a mention, never mind a good clunk of an article.

A disallowed goal on the thinnest of margins, a 2-man advantage on a PP, pucks bouncing into one's own net off a rebound--these things have much more to do with determining which team wins that Mattias Ekholm's magnificent possession #s.  It's not even close.

Analytics, despite being easily debunked, at least in hockey, still has legions of utterly blind-to-the-facts adherents, possibly such as this columnist.

Or maybe he's just going with the flow, dressing up his column with some nifty #s to quantify what everybody who watches already knows.