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Greg Amundsen

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Data analysis with focus on the NHL and team building. Creator of Puck Luck Analytics.

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Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Oct 30

There's more than one way to build a contender. I put together some thoughts that should guide the process, regardless of the precise strategy.
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10 Teambuilding Tenets - Puck Luck Analytics

I've spent a lot of time looking at roster building strategies here over the past while. Regardless of the strategy a team deploys, there are some universal themes that should guide the process. Here ...

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Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · 1d

Walman signs a 7 year extension and McDavid bridges the Oilers.

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · 3d

Projected Standings - Oct 5

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · 4d

Pat Verbeek starting to lock up the Ducks rebuild cohort. Jackson LaCombe with the richest deal in Ducks history.

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · 4d

Bill Zito keeping the band together in Florida. 8 x 5 for Nikko Mikkola.

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · 6d

Take Luke Hughes off the unsigned RFA list. He's the new foundation to the Devils cap cliff.

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · 6d

The Wild are finally out of cap purgatory from the Suter/Parise buyouts. I guess we know where the extra cap space is going now.

Kaprizov secures the bag.

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · 10d

The Blues extend Cam Fowler for 3 years.

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · 10d

The Ducks sign Mason McTavish to a 6 year deal. Should be the leading edge of their contention cohort if the current rebuild is going to bear fruit.

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · 28d

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7 x $7.5MM

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Sep 7

Flames cap cliff after the Zary deal

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Aug 28

Did a full refresh on rosters as the offseason draws to an end. Updated team plots, standings projected and newly added player 5v5 projected G/A/P leaders are all accessible from the 25/26 season main page:
puckluckanalytics.com/2025-2026-se...

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Aug 25

You nailed this one. The Flames need out of the mushy middle, but they’re trying to walk the line between remaining competitive (likely owner driven) and rebuilding. They really need to pick a lane.

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Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Aug 24

Catching up on recent signings. Frank Nazar, Marco Rossi and Ryker Evans the most notable since last update

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Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ever wonder how the Oilers' acquisition of Chris Pronger in 2006 helped set the table for the Kings to acquire Darcy Keumper in 2024?

The answer is in the trade web.

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Aug 6

I updated the Jeff Petry Trade Tree. Also consolidated it into 10 branches. This thing has taken on a life of it's own - more of a mangrove forest than a tree. It spans the entire salary cap era, connecting somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 trades.

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Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Jul 31

Catching up on signings from the past few days: Samberg, Pospisil, Timmins, Struble

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Jul 30

Yeah, Trotz leaned into the UFA vets really heavily and it’s hard to see how this gets better in the short term. And their pipeline is just okay.

Also, nice viz 😉

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Jul 27

Reworking the trade web and adding new recent trades.

The Curtis Glencross trade tree:

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Jul 26

Updated Hurricanes cap cliff with Jackson Blake's extension

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Jul 23

The Kraken and Kaapo Kakko avoid arbitration with a new deal. 3 x $4.525MM

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Jul 22

The Florida Panthers are back to back champs. The cohort that got them there is leaning toward the downhill slope of the age curve. Locking up the whole group long term may have made opened the door to a 3-peat, yet it also creates a challenge to manage the roster for long term sustained success.

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Jul 21

Quite happy with how these turned out. New set of team age profile plots up on the site:

puckluckanalytics.com/2025-2026-se...

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Jul 20

New on the site - draft pipeline probability distributions:

puckluckanalytics.com/2025-2026-se...

Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Jul 19

Team Profiles are up:
puckluckanalytics.com/2025-2026-se...

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Greg Amundsen @puckluck83.bsky.social · Jul 7

Added D+3 and D+7 to the development profile summaries.