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Which parent left his/her computer on for his/her 6 year-old child to bash his head on the keyboard?

That was a POS move by Prust there

Surprised nobody picked up on the money part of this transaction:

What's sad is that teams are more willing to draft untalented bears on skates... I mean, goons than to draft a short skilled player. Shows you how easy a GM with a basic understanding of statistics could rip everyone a new one in this league.

And he was the Oilers' 3rd round pick in 2009. Oh Steve Tambellini!

Holy crap is Cameron Abney's "talent analysis" hilarious:

lol Oilers

MLSE seems to be taking the Raptors and TFC in the right direction, but the Leafs in the wrong direction.

Pretty much the former.

That doesn't surprise me (though, it would blow Randy Carlyle's mind). I would be more interested in the all-time leader in SV%+ (SV% above average) in Leafs history. My guess would be Felix Potvin (since SV% was first recorded in the early 80s)

LOL CARLYLE: Also, LOL LUMBUS:

Sounds like an alright brawl at the Canucks-Flames game.

I've been working on a way to adjust for strength of team in junior leagues. While most teams tend to land in the middle, there are a few who are in the extreme. So, I calculate the team's avg PPG and subtract the player's PPG from the team avg to give me PPG REL. I just did the OHL for this season. Top 10 in PPG (30 GP minimum): 1. Connor Brown 2. Dane Fox 3. Scott Laughton 4. Connor McDavid 5. Max Domi 6. Sam Bennett 7. Nikolay Goldobin 8. Brock McGinn 9. Andre Burakovsky 10. Anthony DeAngelo (D) Top 10 in PPG REL: 1. Connor Brown 2. Scott Laughton 3. Dane Fox 4. Nikolay Goldobin 5. Anthony DeAngelo (D) 6. Max Domi 7. Connor McDavid 8. Sam Bennett 9. Michael Dal Colle 10. Carter Verhaeghe HOLY CRAP is DeAngelo having a season. Same with Brown, even for an overager. The R^2 value between PPG and PPG REL was 0.95, which makes sense since it's mostly the extreme ends of teams that are affected by this. Small, but possibly necessary adjustment to looking at offensive production in the junior level.

I'm not. The folks over at Lighthouse Hockey looked into MacDonald's splits and found him to truly be an anchor for the team. His WOWYs are pretty bad, also. In addition, I'd be cautious using BtN's QoT measure since it includes the player of interest in the measure.

l.o.l.

So, I've been tirelessly reading through as many scouting reports on players as possible (that were done right around the time of the draft, which is not possible for all picks). So far, in a small sample size, I found something not too surprising with regards to "character" reports and place of origin (ie. North American vs. European/Former USSR). I read through reports looking for key terms like "leadership", "character", "work ethic", "lazy", etc. Then, ranked them as "Good" for positive words, "Bad" for negative words and "Neutral" for either no words or mixed reports. This is what I've got for 37 picks in the 2003 draft (1st 2 rounds only; not including goaltenders), where 2 = European/USSR and 1 = North American: So yeah, Europeans were typically given bad "makeup" reports while North Americans were typically given good "makeup" reports, at least from the samples I'm working with. I'm continuing to other drafts, which include: 2002 and 2004 drafts, 2008-13 drafts most of which include TSN reports.

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Ugh, I'm so tired I totally forgot Taylor Hall. He easily makes the team over Lucic. EASILY.

I'd switch Bouwmeester with one of Vlasic, Letang or Hamhuis. Also, I think I would take Staal over Lucic. But boy, Canada can make a mistake and it really wouldn't hurt them as badly as other countries.

Pretty much. When Canada goes full dumb, they replace PK Subban with Drew Doughty. When USA goes full dumb, they replace Dustin Byfuglien or Keith Yandle with Brooks Orpik.

Brooks Orpik would make one think that the US is thin on D, even though they snubbed Byfuglien and Yandle.

Ooh, another juicy quote from that article I linked: Oh wow!

This article proves that Team USA's management is dumn:

Wheeler, Orpik and Martin over Ryan, Yandle and Byfuglien are so egregious, it's like Dave Nonis is running Team USA... wait, Dave Poile is running the team? The f***?

Where are you getting 14 players for $57.2 M? Capgeek has it at 13 players at $50.1 M. Mind you, that's still not good.