Ben Csiernik

@bcsiernik.bsky.social

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Sport scientist and PhD student @ Ontario Tech University. Trying to better understand how goals get scored and how to stop them. Goalie coach. https://sites.google.com/view/bencsiernik/home

A game report showing Team USA scoring 2 goals on 1.66 expected goals on 33 shot attempts, 33 shots, and 6 scoring chances. Canada had 0 goals on 1.13 expected goals on 49 shot attempts, 35 shots on net, and 1 scoring chance.

An image that depicts the WHIMS model, that stands for The Women's Hockey Insight Model for Scoring

Ben is affiliated with Ontario Tech University, and his doctoral thesis is titled: Analyzing the impact of scaling on decision making, and development: An international comparative study in youth ice hockey.