u/amb1ance

All the data for birthplaces was scraped from the public NHL API. Surprisingly, out of 8201 players scraped, only a dozen and a few had dirty data that required normalization or just hard coded fixes. This would be a huge surprise to anyone who has had experience with the NHL API after they reworked it a couple years ago.

This project started out as a D3 endeavour, but I found out it's a bigger goliath than I expected as someone learning dataviz, so I had to put on the training wheels and use some cookie cutter Leaflet template with my own customizations.

The map can be played around with here.

Reposting because of blurry screencap and I forgot to flair.

Take these numbers with a grain of salt, because comparing across eras is iffy. However, it's still fun to do these comparisons.

It's impossible to directly compare two players who played in different eras, but it's fun to do so, and hockey-reference's way of calculating era adjusted stats is pretty fun to mess around with.

I always knew Ovechkin scored a ton of points during a time where every starter was putting up today's Vezina winner numbers, but it still surprises me how much era adjustment favors the already-leading goal scorer.