NHL seattle hires hockey analytics specialist Alexandra Mandrycky

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I've been a baseball fan for over 25 years and in the sabermetrics scene since the early 2000's and I've always wonder how well statistics adapt to other sports. How prevalent is it in hockey as far as using it for player evaluation? I remember the sabermetrics podcast Effectively Wild doing a series talking to people involved in other sports statistics and hockey seemed to be in the middle ground between "New and/or not real integrated yet" and where baseball is at.

Would you guys agree with that?

Alexandra has her work cut out. But she has a great academic background and her having been in an analyst role for several years with the Wild is huge as I'm sure she's been working with big data and predictive NHL modelling for several years. Having access to that data and the proprietary model stuff is really important to working out the kinks. She must be itching to dig into the role.