Dataset Card for 2025-Memorial-Cup-London-Knights-vs-Moncton-Wildcats

This dataset compiles hand-tracked shot attempt data from the two games at the 2025 CHL Memorial Cup played between the OHL champion London Knights and QMJHL champion Moncton Wildcats on May 24th and May 30th, 2025 in Rimouski, Québec.

Dataset Details

Dataset Description

This dataset is a 15-sheet Excel file, grouping data by lines (pairs of defensemen or trios of forwards, at 5-on-5 strength only), players, and teams. There are separate sheets for 5-on-5 player and team results. Each of these categories has two sheets for each game, as well as one sheet combining statistics from the two games. The 'Lines' sheets display: minutes played together, Corsi and its components, Fenwick and its components, xG% and its components, and G% and its components. The 'Players' sheets display: minutes played, shot attempts, shot assists, primary contributions, total shot contributions, chance contributions, chances, chance assists, point shot setups, passes from centre lane, high danger assists, cycle/forecheck offense, rush offense, shots off high danger passes, rebounds, one-timers, deflections, Corsi and its components, Fenwick and its components, xG% and its components, G% and its components, and xG created. The 'Teams' sheets display: shots, missed shots, blocked shots, goals, total shot attempts, SAT%, unblocked shots, Unblocked%, chances and their components, unblocked chances and their components, xG, and xG%.

Dataset Structure

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Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

This dataset was created to support an article on the curator's hockey blog, All Eyes Out East, hosted on Substack. Data collection enabled the curator to closely watch the two games tracked in great detail and collect empirical information to support the curator's analysis of the games and the teams featured in this dataset.

Source Data

The source data is the TSN broadcast of the 2025 Memorial Cup's May 24th and May 30th games, both between the London Knights and the Moncton Wildcats. Data was collected with extreme attention to detail to the best of the curator's ability given the source data.

Data Collection and Processing

Data was collected using an Excel template previously formulated and tested by the curator over the two years preceding the collection of this data. Ice time was tracked manually in one sheet, which then outputted its results to a second sheet named 'Lines' that automatically populated rows with a list of the players who were on ice, with each row representing one second of playing time. Shot attempt data was collected in a third sheet, with columns for strength, time, shooting team, shooting player, shot type, primary and secondary assists, danger zones, shot details, primary assist details, offense type, blocker, players on ice for both teams, goaltender, and defending team. This sheet took 'L' for London and 'M' for Moncton as its inputs for efficiency, as well as using players' numbers instead of names. This information was automatically repopulated in a fourth sheet called 'Pastable', which replaced the team and player abbreviations with full team and player names. The information in 'Lines' and 'Pastable' was used to calculate the figures in these final datasets using the 'COUNTIFS' formula to search for a player, line, or team associated with a specified event.

Citation

This dataset is introduced and visualized in length in a blog post from Substack blog All Eyes Out East, published on June 11th, 2025:

Glossary

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