NHL Thread

[Dylan]

lol @ bringing back bernier, and then he coughs up the lead

[Dylan]

oh there are the leafs.

[Dylan]

Please tell me Hutton knocked that puck away

 

Yes sir! WHAT A SAVE!!

[Dylan]

Devils win, wild win, coyotes win,

 

4 points out of 4th!

[Zaun of the Dead]

sabres won too

[canadiansportsjunkie]

What an amazing save and thank you Hutton!

[Dylan]

 

so great

[GD]

Americans are pretty awesome.

 

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/predators-fans-return-the-favour-sing-o-canada/

[GD]

So basically, Bozak works his shot distance magic and that's why we pay him like $5m? Interesting to see Gardiner grade out pretty badly.

 

Also, your cost of a win figure seems, well, low, at least with the direction salaries seem headed.

[burlingtonbandit]

I have a hard time believing the results if Buffalo isn't last. Buffalo has been the worst team in the analytic ERA and it isn't even close. Definitely interesting though.

[GD]

Observations:

 

-Cody Franson; pls don't sign

-Nazem Kadri is probably a #1 center

-Tyler Bozak may not be awful??? this is news

-Gardiner is just having a s***** season I guess? Understandable

-Lol, Clarkson

 

Have you managed to equate how many goals are equal to a win? Cause you've got RAA now, but no R/W, as far as I can tell, and with that you could basically get WAR.

 

I, for one, welcome our new sentient robot overlords.

[GD]

Cool stuff.

[burlingtonbandit]

They probably project to be. Mike Smith is getting pretty unlucky.

 

 

Obviously this is just 5v5 but to already be the most out-shot team at Evens at game 51 tells me its going to be pretty damn hard to be a worse team than that.

[GD]

Where'd you get all this data?

[Frag]

Behind the Net

 

You should check out War On Ice. A lot more data there, except team statistics for this year.

[burlingtonbandit]

PHX shoots at an Avg Dist of 39 ft (29th), BUF at 35.8 (16th) which is something CORSI ignores.

 

Buffalo is -540 in scoring chances while Arizona is -117. Scoring chances has the strongest correlation with goals from what I've seen and should make the avg shot distance meaningless.

 

http://war-on-ice.com/teamtable.html

[BTS]

Alex Steen. I love him.

[Nox]

Buffalo is real bad. PHX is just bad.

[burlingtonbandit]

Looks much better!

[burlingtonbandit]

Nazem Kadri is elite and drawing penalties and not taking any.

 

Since 2012:

 

[TABLE=width: 130]

[TR]

[TD=width: 65]Name[/TD]

[TD=width: 65]PenG[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]NAZEMKADRI[/TD]

[TD=align: right]12.7[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]MATTDUCHENE[/TD]

[TD=align: right]8.6[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]DUSTINBROWN[/TD]

[TD=align: right]7.6[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]JEFFSKINNER[/TD]

[TD=align: right]6.9[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]MARTINST.LOUIS[/TD]

[TD=align: right]6.7[/TD]

[/TR]

[/TABLE]

 

lol Clarkson is the opposite.

[Nox]

Cool stuff Resident Cyborg.

 

I do think that teammate effects are too ingrained to build WAR off of exactly what you have here but this is still solid and fun to look at.

 

I also really don't like War-on-ice's "Road to WAR" series of posts. I hope future attempts and versions of this will continue to ignore some of their misguided ideas.

[Frag]

Cool stuff Resident Cyborg.

 

I do think that teammate effects are too ingrained to build WAR off of exactly what you have here but this is still solid and fun to look at.

 

I also really don't like War-on-ice's "Road to WAR" series of posts. I hope future attempts and versions of this will continue to ignore some of their misguided ideas.

 

I hold out hope for SportVU and other such technology to allow us to account for teammate effects on player performance (as well as better understand the game itself).

 

Also, what issues did you have with War-on-Ice's "Road to WAR" posts?

[TwistedLogic]

[GoldBull]

 

I was dying at the "Clarkson, will stumble and fall" line

[Sammy225]

I hear the leafs like big contracts. What would be willing to give up for Kane?

 

 

Evander that is

[King]

Not sure if you guys are following this, but the Kane/Jets situation is getting to be quite the mess.

 

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/kane-skipped-game-after-incident-with-teammates/

 

Paul Maurice told reporters that they scratched Kane due to wearing a tracksuit, and now its coming out that he actually skipped the game because of an incident with his teammates (involving him wearing the sweats).

[Dylan]

Not sure if you guys are following this, but the Kane/Jets situation is getting to be quite the mess.

 

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/kane-skipped-game-after-incident-with-teammates/

 

Paul Maurice told reporters that they scratched Kane due to wearing a tracksuit, and now its coming out that he actually skipped the game because of an incident with his teammates (involving him wearing the sweats).

 

I've never liked him

[King]

Possibly played his last game as a Jet, if true. He wasn't on the ice at practice this morning, BTW.

[KingKat]

Kane wore a track suit when the Jets players gathered that morning — a violation of team policy. Following a brief workout and stretch, Byfuglien is said to have thrown those clothes into the shower to send a message to his teammate, according to sources.

 

WTF? lol

[Dylan]

Byfuglien is said to have thrown those clothes into the shower to send a message to his teammate, according to sources.

 

lol