Min-jun Park

My interest in hockey grew during the build-up to the Winter Olympics in Korea, when I started following the NHL and KHL seriously and realised how much hidden structure sits under a sport most people only watch for the goals. The deeper I went, the more the analytical side pulled me in. I build my score predictions around the things that quietly decide hockey games: goaltending form, special teams, shot quality, and how schedules and travel grind teams down across a long season. Possession metrics and expected goals tell a clearer story than the scoreboard alone, especially in a sport with this much randomness. Hockey is one of the more volatile sports to analyse, and I respect that. A hot goaltender can steal a game no model saw coming. So I focus on sound process, calibrated expectations, and explaining my reasoning rather than promising certainty. — Min-jun Park