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Show HN: ProHockeyIQ – connecting players and teams

by olssonm on 7/12/14, 7:24 AM with 3 comments

• by chatmasta on 7/12/14, 9:04 AM

  What is your plan for achieving market parity here? I imagine finding NHL players to signup will be difficult, if not impossible. Every one of them has an agent, who likely has no interest in this service because he already knows every GM in the NHL. And I doubt any of the players themselves will signup, since they're busy, well... playing hockey.

  So maybe your target is players in junior leagues or overseas? But then, how do you get the NHL scouts/GMs to join? They are interested in NHL talent, not desperate junior league players with no agent.

  It's a chicken/egg problem, and I'm not sure how you're going to get either one...

• by olssonm on 7/12/14, 7:26 AM

  See it as a LinkedIn for hockey players and teams.

  Example of player profile: https://www.prohockeyiq.com/view/player/30

  And a team profile: https://www.prohockeyiq.com/view/team/2