The Chicago Blackhawks are often praised for being ahead of the curve in the NHL's analytics movement, but the metrics they use differ from popular advanced stats like Corsi and Fenwick.

According to coach Joel Quenneville, the Blackhawks focus their data-mining efforts mainly on scoring chances, as he explained to the Chicago Tribune:

We all have ways of how we analyze games and how we look at what we saw or how we're viewing other games and other players. We like to watch the game and scoring chances are probably the one thing we work off the most as a staff. We like to educate our team ... how you can create offensively and what's good and bad and go from that. You can find different ways of measuring a game. I'm not criticizing it or supporting it either way. I like measuring the guys' play by what we see.

Whatever Chicago is doing seems to be paying dividends: the only team that has been more productive at even strength since 2010 is the Boston Bruins.