Vancouver entrepreneurs net analytics contract with NHL's Capitals

Cole Gawenda of Vancouver, front, the 20 year old co founder of hockey analytics firm HockeyData Inc. with colleagues Brian Guindon, right, and Jens Persson Thomas in their downtown office.

"I've never actually played hockey," said Gawenda, operations manager of the analytics firm HockeyData.

HockeyData Inc. will be tracking events such as zone entries and passesfor the Caps' young prospects in the American Hockey League. The company has no business relationship with the Vancouver Canucks.

The companytracks player events and providesadvanced metrics from minor pro and junior leagues that offer little to no data for public consumption and uses it to help teams and agents assess their own players, along with players they covet from other teams and players they might choose to sign or draft.

"When I was just replica birkin handbags starting school I got in touch with Vancouver based player agent Cliff Mander and worked with him for a year," said Gawenda. "Cliff's company CKMSports Management is analytics focused and fake hermes bag they track that data for their clients. CKMcan use that information to help develop the players."

Gawenda and Hohl foundedthe firm last year and now employ 20 people, supplying data and analytics to professional hockey teams and player agents. The information also has valueas teams prepare for the 2017 NHL entry draft on June 23 and 24.

With roughly 1,000 active players, the AHL is a virtual black hole for performance metrics compared to the robust and varied data produced by the NHL. Major junior leagues are even worse.

"The NHL provides Corsi and other possession metrics online, but there is nothing like that for other leagues," said Gawenda. "We have a proprietary tracking system that allows us to collect data from games that gives us insights on the composition of the players and what plays they make and what results from that."

HockeyData staff watch AHL games and record player events including when and where they happen on the ice.

Their event tracking system was developed with financial support from the National Research Council's Industrial Research Assistance Program.

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