Brendon Crossman, senior director of NHL statistics and information, said the marathon process of compiling the Olympics information and building the site turned into a sprint after 4 Nations that involved a large crew working tirelessly behind the scenes.
It became an all-hands effort to scour NHL, International Ice Hockey Federation and Olympics stats, box scores and media accounts, as well as rigorous fact-checking to create a comprehensive product.
Stick taps go to the stats and information team that also includes Scott Rodgers, Mike Biergard, Amanda Butterfield, John Burd, Liv Holmes and Brett Kozak.
The IT team included Neil Pierson, Kevin Sullivan, Kiersten Page, Aliaksei Haiduchonak and Ivan Leschinsky.
“So next month, when a goaltender stands on his head or a player scores a hat trick or anything like that, we’re going to be able to put that into context across the five (Olympic) Games that we participated in over that timeframe, and be able to point our fans and our media and our clubs to a resource that we built from scratch,” Crossman said.