Corsi. Fenwick. To people who don’t follow hockey, they sound just like regular names. But to those who are invested in the game, they have come to symbolize a revolution in how hockey is thought of and played. Dimitri Filipovic, an SFU alumni, is at the forefront of this as one of the leading minds of the analytics movement. Filipovic, and others like him, use numbers to give an objective and evidence-based take on the sport. When talking to Filipovic, it is very clear that he looks at the game from a completely different viewpoint than the one you would…
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