TY - JOUR AU - Wagner, Cate AU - Barr, Erica AU - Spada, Joseph AU - Joslin, Cole AU - Sommers, Paul M. PY - 2021/01/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Simeon Poisson and the Stanley Cup Finals JF - Journal of Student Research JA - J Stud Res VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.47611/jsr.v9i1.1078 UR - https://www.jsr.org/index.php/path/article/view/1078 SP - AB - <p>The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league in North America currently comprised of 31 teams.&nbsp; Their seasons culminate with the Stanley Cup Playoffs.&nbsp; The top sixteen teams (eight in each conference) qualify for the playoffs.&nbsp; The conference champions face off in the final round, known as the Stanley Cup Finals.&nbsp; The authors show that goals scored per game in the Stanley Cup Finals follow a Poisson distribution.&nbsp; Using the results of all 438 Stanley Cup Final games played since 1939 (when the Finals became a best-of-seven series), chi-squared goodness-of-fit tests show that the observed distribution of goals scored per game by series winners, series losers, and game losers closely approximate a Poisson theoretical model.&nbsp; The combined number of goals scored by both finalists and goals scored by game winners do not</p> ER -