Conference Program

June 6, 2022

15:00-15:15 Welcome

15:15-16:00 INVITED TALK
Oliver Schulte, professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada:
Valuing Actions and Ranking Hockey Players With Machine Learning

SESSION Analytics for teams - analysts

16:00-17:30 Panel - Team analysts

17:30-17:45 BREAK

SESSION Analytics for teams - goalkeepers

17:45-18:45 Discussion - Hockey Analytics for Goalkeepers

18:45-19:30 BREAK

SESSION Industry – 1

19:30-20:00 invited talk, Sean Tierney, State of the Hockey Analytics Industry

20:00-22:00 industry talks

PwC
Spiideo
Sportcontract
Sportlogiq
Sportradar
Stretch On Sense AB
Stathletes
Wisehockey

22:00-23:00 breakout rooms industry

PwC Hungary - Sports Advisory: Balasz Dabasi
Spiideo: Morgan Zeba
Sportcontract: Thorsten Apel
Sportradar: John Randall, Bob Teofilo
Stathletes: Meghan Chayka
Stretch On Sense AB: Albin N Maelum, Martin Sahlin
Wisehockey: Miska Kuusisto, Mika Hulkki

June 7, 2022

15:00-15:45 INVITED TALK
Tim Brecht, professor, University of Waterloo, Canada:
Player and Puck Tracking Data: Opportunities and Challenges

15:45-16:30 Discussion with:
Karl Schwarzenbrunner, director of science and education, German Ice Hockey Federation

16:30-16:45 BREAK

SESSION Women's hockey

16:45-17:15 INVITED TALK
Carleen Markey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA:
Keeping Count: Archiving Women's Hockey Analytics for Accessibility

17:15-18:45 Panel - Women's hockey:

Adam Albelin, Swedish Ice Hockey Federation
Meghan Chayka, Stathletes
Erika Holst, Frölunda Hockey Club
Carleen Markey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA:

18:45-19:30 BREAK

SESSION Industry – 2

19:30-21:00 Panel – industry

SESSION Student Competition

21:00-21:30 5-minute presentations by the student competition finalists

David Norell, Oscar Kröger, Oscar Melin, Mina Abd Nikooie Pour, Ying Li:
Pattern Extraction from Controlled Exits in Ice Hockey

Chayan Shrang Raj:
Temporal activity outcome prediction of players in Ice Hockey

Ethan Parliament:
The Effect Of Shot Location On Rebound Quality

Md Fahim Sikder:
Sequential Ice Hockey Events Generation using Generative Adversarial Network

21:30-22:30 breakout rooms: meet the student competition finalists

June 8, 2022

15:00-15:45 Talk
Patrick Lambrix and Niklas Carlsson, professors, Linköping University, Sweden:
A Goal-based Performance Measure using Goal Importance

SESSION research papers

15:45:16:05: Kanav Vats, Mehrnaz Fani, David A. Clausi, John S. Zelek:
Evaluating deep tracking models for player tracking in broadcast ice hockey video

16:05-16:25: Noah Chaikof, Katia Clément-Heydra, Carleen Markey, Mikael Nahabedian, Adam Pilotte, Mairead Shaw:
Scouting Automated Ratings Analyzing Habits (SARAH): A Statistical Methodology for Scouting and Player Development

16:25-16:45 BREAK

16:45-17:05 Ulf Johansson, Erik Wilderoth, Arsalan Sattari:
How Analytics is Changing Ice Hockey

17:05-17:25: Erik Wilderoth, Ulf Johansson, Arsalan Sattari:
Where not to lose the puck

17:25-17:45: Brendan Kumagai, Ryker Moreau, Kimberly Kroetch:
Predicting the NHL Draft with Rank-Ordered Logit Models

17:45-18:05: Cédric Ramqaj and Thibaud Chatel:
Score and Venue Adjustment on Transition Data in Hockey

18:05-18:25: David Radke, Tim Brecht, Daniel Radke:
Identifying Completed Pass Types and Improving Passing Lane Models

18:25-19:10 BREAK

SESSION Entertainment Industry

19:10-20:40 Panel – Entertainment Industry

SESSION National teams and coaching perspective

20:40-21:40: Discussion - Hockey Analytics for the Swedish National Teams

21:40-22:10 Talk - Hockey Analytics from a coach perspective
Dan Tangnes, head coach, EV Zug (NL)

22:10-22:30: CLOSING (including announcement winner best research paper and winner student competition)