A Guide to the Data of Clear Sight Analytics (CSA)

Here at InGoal Magazine, we like to use data provided by Clear Sight Analytics (CSA) whenever possible. The company’s founder, Stephen Valiquette, is a former NHL goaltender who understands what matters most when evaluating data for The Position. This understanding is part of what makes their data uniquely useful for a publication obsessed with goaltenders.

Because their approach departs, both theoretically and practically, from the way the NHL (and many public data sources that rely on the NHL’s play-by-play reports) handles its statistics, and because we use their data so often, we thought it would be useful to provide a basic overview in a stand-alone article, so our readers can reference it whenever they like, rather than seeing the same explanations repeated in every piece.