One question I have (hopefully I'm not too late) is whether analytics factor into coaching decisions. For example, if analytics shows that the team you're playing is really strong at breaking out on the right side, does the analytics department alert the coaching staff?
In theory, the coaching staff's eye test should reveal the same thing, and this is admittedly a pretty clumsy example. But perhaps like, analytics showing that a team does much poorer when player X has a bad game outletting the puck, but does very well when that player outlets the puck well. Could this inform a decision to key on that player?
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