Four groups. Each one has a different reason to care about an honest number — and a different way to use it. Front offices, agents, ownership groups, and the technology partners building the next layer of the game. If the number matters to your decision, this page is for you.
Every NHL front office is making contract decisions worth hundreds of millions of dollars using the same public data. The question is not whether your analytics team is smart enough. It is whether the numbers they are working with are honest enough to trust.
Slashing provides an independent read — clean, verified, cap-adjusted — on what a player actually produced and what it should cost. Not after the contract is signed. Before the call is made.
The analysis is independent. It did not come from inside your building — which means it holds up in any room, including the ones that matter most.
Every request is reviewed personally by David. This is not a mailing list.
What a player actually produced against what you are paying. Scrubbed, adjusted, and verified.
The number before the commitment. Not an audit of what went wrong. A read before you sign.
It did not come from inside your building. That is the point.
Production that decided games, separated from production that padded a line. Context the box score cannot give you.
The hardest part of a contract negotiation is not knowing what your player is worth — it is proving it to someone who has every reason to disagree. Slashing gives you an independent, data-backed number that did not come from inside the team's building. That is ammunition.
Adjusted goals. Net impact. Cost per unit of production against the league average. What your client earned this season — scrubbed, verified, and positioned against every comparable contract in the league. Not the box score. The real number.
Slashing proves what your client produced and what it is worth against the current cap. What you do with that in the room — the term, the structure, the ask — is your expertise, not ours. We give you the floor. You build from there.
The most valuable moment for this analysis is before the negotiation begins — not after. A client who is provably underpaid going into a contract year is a different conversation than one who is simply asking for more. Slashing makes the case before you make the call.
Every dollar committed to a player is a dollar that cannot go anywhere else. Ownership groups carry that risk for the life of every contract on the roster. Slashing is the independent read that did not come from inside your own building.
Your analytics department is talented. They are also employed by you, which means their analysis carries an inherent bias toward the decisions already being made. Slashing has no stake in the outcome. The number is the number.
The annual cap hit is the number that gets negotiated. The real cost is what that commitment does to the roster over its full term — the players you cannot sign, the flexibility you give up, the age curve you are betting against. Slashing quantifies what the contract costs the organization, not just what it costs the cap.
Slashing is not a post-mortem tool. The Toronto Tax was identifiable before the trade was made. The Dickinson deal was quantifiable before the cheque was written. The value of honest analysis is in the decision it prevents, not the one it explains after the fact.
The analytical framework is built. The methodology is proven. The next layer is richer input data — player tracking, real-time event capture, dimensions of the game that go beyond what any public source currently provides. We are looking for technology partners who want to build that layer with us.
Exact player positioning. Speed at the moment of release. Traffic and screen data at the crease. The variables that separate a good shot from a great one are locked behind institutional access today. A technology partner who can unlock that layer makes every model Slashing runs significantly more accurate.
Slashing is built to serve multiple organizations simultaneously across multiple seasons of data. The analytical architecture is designed for scale. The right technology partner accelerates that transition without compromising the independence of the methodology.
Whether you are negotiating a contract, defending a decision, or building the tools that make the game smarter — Slashing exists to give you an honest, independent read before it matters most. Reach out.
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