NHL Thread

[z3r0s]

Duh? I'm very offended, you intellectualist.

 

touche... oh wait... do you dullards know french words?

 

Oh Snap! there we go.

[burlingtonbandit]

http://maddox.xmission.com/maddox_offended_jets_sm.gif

 

 

I identify people by their differing skin color all the time, as in " yeah that's person X, the brown guy next to that white girl in the blue shirt." I guess I'm just not an easily offended pussy.

 

I think its different being in person and saying "the black guy" then putting it in print in the newspaper.

[labadee]

reimer was pretty decent last night

[burlingtonbandit]

reimer was pretty decent last night

 

I was impressed with a lot of young Sens forwards. If management was smart they would trade away Greening and let some of those young kids replace him. Lazar and Hoffman are probably better than him anyways.

[burlingtonbandit]

Ryan Ellis signs 5 year/12.5 million. Pretty low risk/high reward deal for Nashville.

[burlingtonbandit]

Did you watch both games? I'm sure you and BTS were nuthugging, amirite?

 

Watched the game at Ottawa and saw highlights of the one at the ACC. No nuthugging happened I'm sorry to say.

[Frag]

I can admit it, I bleed Blue and White, hasn't been fun, like the new direction, and will root as I toot, GO LEAFS GO!!

 

As well, the team is full of SAS.

[labadee]

I can admit it, I bleed Blue and White, hasn't been fun, like the new direction, and will root as I toot, GO LEAFS GO!!

 

YES! Can't wait to see Komarov in action during the season. The dude is like a f***ing honeybadger on the fore-check

[43211234]

This is a good thing right? It sure looks good.

 

SAS is a statistical analysis software that anyone could purchase and use (I use it at school). It is probably the most used software in industry. I doubt the Leafs get any significant advantage from being their official partner though. But yeah, it's definitely not a bad thing, yet at the end of the day it's the personnel doing the studies and modelling that matter.

[burlingtonbandit]

Here is a look at the new studio for Sportsnet. Pretty impressive.

 

http://www.sportsnet.ca/sportsnet-unveils-state-of-the-art-multi-million-dollar-hockey-studio-with-11x38ft-ultra-high-definition-monitor/

[Dylan]

If Orr or McLaren make the starting roster on opening night, I will refuse to watch.

[Frag]

SAS is a statistical analysis software that anyone could purchase and use (I use it at school). It is probably the most used software in industry. I doubt the Leafs get any significant advantage from being their official partner though. But yeah, it's definitely not a bad thing, yet at the end of the day it's the personnel doing the studies and modelling that matter.

 

SAS is essentially far more expensive and less user-friendly software than R.

[BTS]

SAS is essentially far more expensive and less user-friendly software than R.

 

Yup.

[burlingtonbandit]

If Orr or McLaren make the starting roster on opening night, I will refuse to watch.

 

With the analytics team they hired I doubt they would make that decision. Could maybe see one of them being a guy on the inactive list who they carry and play the odd game here and there but thats it.

[Nox]

R is the bee's knees.

 

dplyr, tidyr and everything created by Andrew Gelman ftw.

 

SAS is an expensive s***-stain of a platform that would already be phased out if some large companies weren't so wrongly terrified of things developed in the public domain.

 

"Dickhead IT Boss: Well, lets see here Bob. R is being rapidly developed and supported by a gigantic community that has the sharpest thinkers in Bayesian Analysis/ML/DM creating extensions for it with supporting peer reviewed academic literature. It's also in a language that will seem pretty familiar for any developers we want to train up on it."

 

"56 Year Old Middle Manager Bob (wearing a wrinkled Mike Weir golf shirt that's at least 8 years old): All true but I heard it's free. We can't possibly trust something like that can we?"

 

"Dickhead IT Boss: It is!?! Oh that can't be good. We better stick with SAS. I can't possibly think of a better use for this $10M we pay in licensing anyways. So really, R wouldn't even save us any real $."

 

"Bob: I think we really dodged a bullet there."

[labadee]

leafs PP looking atrocious in this game

[labadee]

Clarkson's face injury is keeping him out for a week too.

 

clarkson day to day. may be available friday

[immature]

How good do you guys think MacKinnion will be. He showed some Crosby esque flashes last year and trained all summer with him. I think he he will be top 5 , if not this year than next. He and Mcdavid could become the next Sid and Ovi.

[labadee]

How good do you guys think MacKinnion will be. He showed some Crosby esque flashes last year and trained all summer with him. I think he he will be top 5 , if not this year than next. He and Mcdavid could become the next Sid and Ovi.

 

top 5 may be a bit ambitious this year in my opinion. would love to see that though, he's an exciting player.

[havok24]

top 5 may be a bit ambitious this year in my opinion. would love to see that though, he's an exciting player.

 

Please.

[immature]

He also has the supporting cast. Duchene O'Reilly Landeskog and Johnson are all impressive. I could see them becoming what Chicago has been the past couple of years.

[Frag]

R is the bee's knees.

 

dplyr, tidyr and everything created by Andrew Gelman ftw.

 

SAS is an expensive s***-stain of a platform that would already be phased out if some large companies weren't so wrongly terrified of things developed in the public domain.

 

"Dickhead IT Boss: Well, lets see here Bob. R is being rapidly developed and supported by a gigantic community that has the sharpest thinkers in Bayesian Analysis/ML/DM creating extensions for it with supporting peer reviewed academic literature. It's also in a language that will seem pretty familiar for any developers we want to train up on it."

 

"56 Year Old Middle Manager Bob (wearing a wrinkled Mike Weir golf shirt that's at least 8 years old): All true but I heard it's free. We can't possibly trust something like that can we?"

 

"Dickhead IT Boss: It is!?! Oh that can't be good. We better stick with SAS. I can't possibly think of a better use for this $10M we pay in licensing anyways. So really, R wouldn't even save us any real $."

 

"Bob: I think we really dodged a bullet there."

 

That's pretty much the argument I've been presented by the higher-ups who support SAS over R. Even though I mostly worked with R (mainly because it's free), they tell me that I have to re-learn a new, more expensive and less user-friendly program in SAS in order for them to accept my analyses. It doesn't help that I've rarely used SAS since it's so expensive. I've even asked them why they don't just save money and use R, and their response is always the stupid, "We just can't trust an open source software that's free!" Honestly, I think the only reasons why they go with SAS over R is because 1) they are delusional into thinking that SAS is a safer program to go with just because its programming is "checked" more often and 2) they have had a long business relationship with SAS & prefer the status quo over change or are currently in a licensing contract with SAS.

[burlingtonbandit]

He also has the supporting cast. Duchene O'Reilly Landeskog and Johnson are all impressive. I could see them becoming what Chicago has been the past couple of years.

 

Going to need a better coach and management for them to be anywhere close to Chicago. They just signed Brad Stuart for another 2 years today.

Edited September 30, 2014 by burlingtonbandit

[Dylan]

Yeah, he got punched da fack out!!

 

Why is he fighting in a pre-season game when we need him to be healthy, ffs

[Dylan]

Cause...DERP!!!

 

Preseason is clearly not his thing

[labadee]

Why is he fighting in a pre-season game when we need him to be healthy, ffs

 

Clarkson has been punched too many times in the head for him to think rationally.

[burlingtonbandit]

NHL player props came out on Bodog. Here are a few of my picks:

 

Bobby Ryan 53.5-Over

John Taveras 86.5-Under

Malkin 89.5-Under

Jason Spezza 64.5-Over

Kyle Turris 57.5-Over

[burlingtonbandit]

I don't think Malkin will hit 90.

 

Especially with his injury concerns. Has only played 75 games once in the last 5 years and already has an injury in TC.

[Dylan]

In a standard points pool, would you keep hornqvist, b.richards(on chicago now), Nyquist or Schwartz?

[burlingtonbandit]

In a standard points pool, would you keep hornqvist, b.richards(on chicago now), Nyquist or Schwartz?

 

Id go with the former if it was one year only. Keeper league def go with the latter.