A look at early SJHL statistical trends
At the beginning of each hockey season, there are bound to be anomolies: stats that strike you as odd or strange (sometimes for good reason).
While some trends will likely continue (Layne Young scoring lots), many of these trends won’t continue.
As analytics guru Tyler Delow points out for The Athletic, “In small samples, crazy things happen. Guys who aren’t particularly good at scoring score a pile of goals. The more information you have, the more certain you can be that something is real rather than a chimera.”
For example (and this is not a shot at this particular player), Weyburn’s Ben Hiltz currently has six goals in eight games. Over a full Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League season, that’s a 43-goal pace. It’s safe to say this won’t continue over a larger sample size. Last year, Hiltz had four goals in 43 games.