Our analysis was picked up by the New York Times. Here's an excerpt:
Over the past 32 years, the team with a better goals-against average has won 18 Stanley Cups (56.3 percent). But since the high-scoring period of the mid-80’s to the mid-90’s ended – the team with the better goals-against average has been even more dominant: 4-1 over the last five years, 7-3 over the last 10, and 12-6 over the last 18 years.
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Read more here:
http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/keeping-score-looking-at-history-to-predict-a-champion/
Note: For purposes of this blog, there is no definitive "quant fact" prediction for this year's Stanley Cup Finals.
