Built by coaches

About Bench Metrics

Our story

With almost 40 years of combined coaching experience, we understand the power of stats and developed a passion for statistical analysis, video breakdown, and detailed reporting. We searched for an inexpensive tool to that would handle these needs and unlock the power of statistics but none existed, so we decided to build one designed specifically for us...and now for you, the Coaches.

We designed our software from the ground up to organize the essential information that us coaches have kept in spreadsheets and three-ring binders for years. We built something to give you guys a detailed, in depth, and broad look at your players and your overall team tendencies.

The reports you'll get in our Bench Metrics software are invaluable in helping you determine your team's strengths and weaknesses, backed up by statistics of course, while also giving an in-depth look at individual players compared to their teammates. This powerful tool, with its sophisticated yet easy-to-read reports, can be used by anyone in your organization to evaluate the entire team and individual player on-ice performance, making you a more effective coaching staff all-around.

Meet our founders

Jay Varady

Co-founder

Jay Varady is an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL, hired in June 2025 after three seasons as an assistant with the Detroit Red Wings. A native of the St. Louis area, he played three seasons of Division I hockey at Union College (1997-2000), captaining the team in 1999-2000, before moving into coaching. He coached in the NAHL with the Pittsburgh Forge and spent years with the WHL's Everett Silvertips as an assistant and associate coach. He was Team USA's video coach at the 2010 World Junior Championships and spent two seasons coaching in France's Ligue Magnus. As head coach of the USHL's Sioux City Musketeers he won the 2017 USHL Coach of the Year award, and he coached Team USA at the 2016 World Junior A Challenge. He then led the OHL's Kingston Frontenacs to the franchise's first Eastern Conference Final, and from 2018 was head coach of the AHL's Tucson Roadrunners, winning a division title in 2019-20. He is a co-founder of Bench Metrics.

Michael Zucker

Co-founder

Michael has been coaching hockey and developing custom software since 1997. A USA Hockey Masters Level Coach including stints at NCAA Division I (NCHC), Tier 1 Junior A (USHL/BCHL), Canadian Major Junior (WHL), Collegiate Varsity Club Hockey (ACHA), and Tier 1 AAA youth teams, Michael is also a member of USA Hockey's National Festival coaching staff and a former USA Hockey Coaching Coordinator. With the creation of Bench Metrics, he has been able to combine both his coaching and software passions to make hockey analytics approachable and easy to implement at any level.

Having worked and coached under some of the best coaches in the business, including former NHL Head Coach Kevin Constantine, former NHL Assistant Coach George Gwozdecky, and the winningest coach in the history of USA Junior Hockey, Bliss Littler, Michael has been able to combine some of the best coaching methodologies and tactics into the Bench Metrics product.

He has coached Junior hockey in the WHL (Everett), USHL (Omaha, Youngstown), BCHL (Wenatchee), and also spent two years at the NCAA Division 1 level (University of Denver). In the past ten seasons Michael has coached 37 NHL draft picks, six of whom were selected in the 1st round of the NHL Entry Draft. A native from Queens, New York, Michael now resides in Seattle, WA.

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