Elliotte Friedman: Kings making an interesting hire

[santiclaws]

Looks like the Kings are embracing analytics. Good.

https://twitter.com/friedgehnic/status/1398324643828846592?s=21

LA is making an interesting hire: Ryan Kruse as VP of Research & Development. Kruse spent past 7 years with MLB?s Chicago Cubs. As tracking data grows in NHL, you?re going to see a number of teams build out their analytics department. He?s going to do this with the Kings.

Kings are also hiring Jake Goldberg ? formerly with ARIZ ? as Sr Director of Hockey Operations. He will fill some of the duties performed by Jeff Solomon, who recently moved to ANA.

 

[salami]

This is as "social media" as I get these days:

Jake Goldberg LinkedIn Profile

 

[santiclaws]

This is as "social media" as I get these days:

Jake Goldberg LinkedIn Profile

Assistant to​ the General Manager

 

[05/29/93]

"Moneyball" on ice, or should we just call it Moneypuck?

 

[LAKingSteve]

Assistant to​ the General Manager

I see what you did there

 

[What party?]

Looks like the Kings are embracing analytics. Good.

https://twitter.com/friedgehnic/status/1398324643828846592?s=21

LA is making an interesting hire: Ryan Kruse as VP of Research & Development. Kruse spent past 7 years with MLB?s Chicago Cubs. As tracking data grows in NHL, you?re going to see a number of teams build out their analytics department. He?s going to do this with the Kings.

Kings are also hiring Jake Goldberg ? formerly with ARIZ ? as Sr Director of Hockey Operations. He will fill some of the duties performed by Jeff Solomon, who recently moved to ANA.

 

[Luc SkyBomba]

remember when "corsi" was an analytic?

 

[Helvetica]

surprised its taken them this long to head in this direction.

 

[jammer06]

Guys theyve been in this direction for a while. This is probably generation 3 of their analytics hires. Clearly this is also part of the direction change from Solomons way of looking at it.

 

[jom]

remember when "corsi" was an analytic?

When someone says "corsi" to me I think of the ESPN college football analyst. That's how far gone I am with this stuff....

jom

 

[Statue4Deano]

Guys theyve been in this direction for a while. This is probably generation 3 of their analytics hires. Clearly this is also part of the direction change from Solomons way of looking at it.

Jeff Solomon was responsible for bringing analytics to the Kings. That was literally his pet project within the organization. He built the department from the ground up.

Lombardi was the eye-test guy. Solomon was the hard data guy.

 

[Dr. Tran]

remember when "corsi" was an analytic?

I remember learning that Corsi wasn't an acronym for anything. It was just some guy's name. The same with Fenwick.