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NHL November 2013 |OT| 3rd Degree Assault. 2nd Degree Kidnapping. 1st Degree Racism
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Dastardly Jerks
Banned
Typical LA fans; telling the most undeserving of teams to eat shit.
Or did I underestimate a fierce rivalry?
Dastardly Jerks
Banned
Speaking of which, I'm just about to purchase a Vita (Killzone bundle for $200 AUD). How big a memory card would you recommend?
Getting P4G and Dragon's Crown.
We always here biiiiittttcccchhh!
How dare you, shadowkat is part of my Neogaf cat revolution!
CrazedArabMan
Member
I hate this team, I've lost all faith in them for now to deliver a fun and exciting game to watch and be proud of, it's just a bunch of old men who can't seem to skate.
As big as you can afford tbh
Oh and get Tearaway if you can!! Im trying to figure out how I'm gonna pay for that.
Freyjadour
Member
NSMBU is easily right beside World in 2D Mario rankings. I've never played the other New games, but it's difficult and plays great.
Dastardly Jerks
Banned
Devils have won the last 2 meetings and we've lost every game on this road trip so far.
16gb it is!
I'm gonna grab Silent Hill: Book of Memories next. Playing that in bed in the dark should be fun.
Dastardly Jerks
Banned
We're still going to lose.
Bye bye perfect home streak.
Bye bye perfect home streak.
32 GB.
Amibguous Cad
Member
Just watched the Blackhawks-Avalanche highlights. Even when they're getting pounded by 4 goals, the Blackhawks look incredible. Just unreal.
But we still have a better points percentage!
CrazedArabMan
Member
I wish the Wings were still entertaining to watch even when they are losing.
Further proof why Spezza fucking sucks and this team will never get anywhere with him.
Turris is the team's official #1 Center now and has been all last season as well.
Fuck getting Spezza wingers, he had plenty of wingers, need to realize hes actually the fucking problem and not his wingers.
Agreed. Never understood why those games are so popular. Graphics were amazing at the time but the gameplay was so sluggish and blah.
People still pay attention to corsi? lulz
CrazedArabMan
Member
We'll trade you upcoming holy grail 4th line center Andersson for Spezza, then Spezza will get injured and him and Alfie can be reunited in the press box nursing their injuries.
Unhandled Exception
Member
The new series feels so homogenized and soulless to me. I finished U but I've pretty much forgotten everything about it.
Not that you'd know but its been a huge discussion point the last two years in the Leafs fanbase.
We have a main reporter who is very pro Corsi and uses it as his basis anytime he discusses the Leafs.
One of the more popular Leafs communities also is very pro Corsi as well.
None of these change the fact that its a useless statistic like +/-
brucewaynegretzky
Member
Hasn't it been statistically shown to be more predictive of future success? I could have sworn +/- will average out when adjusted for competition, but Corsi stays predictive.
equippedwithtowel
Member
Widely adopted by Leafs fans? Even more reason to not care about it.
yankeehater
Member
Mason is so good, I am really glad the flyers didnt panic and trade for another goalie earlier in the year like people were saying. It is great to see the team in front of him finally score some goals. Hopefully they can keep this up.
My bad I should clarify these people are huge on corsi but they are a vocal minority in regards to how the rest of the fandom views it.
I personally think advanced stats will be the future of how we discuss players like in other sports BUT it has a long way to go.
This year is very vital for every win the Leafs have it gives a big blow to it since everyone has been predicting we'd be bottom of the league with the corsi we're putting up.
The declining value of fenwick/corsi with increased sample size
(statistical analysis from a Leafs fan)
Advanced statistics won't work in hockey partially because it's a constantly moving game. There's too many factors that you can't quantify in hockey(quality of shot, exact positions of players, etc) that limit what you can do with statistical models. That's why even basic statistics like +/- are so flawed. It works in baseball because each pitch is a measurable situation. We're a long way off from having any useful advanced stats in hockey.
Chicago's corsi was great last night yet they got fucking blown out.
Unhandled Exception
Member
DON'T YOU FUCKING FORGET IT
In reality I think crawford had a bad game and Varlamov was back in god mode. That was your backup's first NHL game too right?
Crawford wasn't really to blame. The rest of the team couldn't go 3 seconds without coughing up the puck to an Av in a perfect scoring location or letting them walk around them on defense.
It was Raanta's first game in the NHL but he actually played better than I thought considering how shitty the rest of the team was playing.
Unhandled Exception
Member
Yeah there were a lot of turnovers. The Stastny goal looked like a really unfortunate bounce though. Blowing that 3 on 1 is how those situations usually go for us.
Part bad bounce, part bad play by Seabrook to not send that puck around the boards better. Stastny had a gimme once the puck got to him. Crawford had no chance.
I completely agree. Add in the glaring and often hilarious differences in the stat recording itself (Bowen and co. even said last night about a past game where the official count for one period was 0 giveaways, and they said 'we counted at least 4 or 5 ourselves'), and frankly, anyone who uses these stats is so blatantly ATTEMPTING to appear intelligent it's beyond hysterical, and more just sad and pathetic.
This is why the G&M needs to fire Mirtle and hire someone who actually understands hockey to cover the most followed team in the league for the country's largest newspaper.
It's embarrassing.
He brings in readers whether good or bad to yell at his articles so no way he's going anytime soon.
He's also subtle in how he trolls the team unlike Simmons or Cox. You won't ever see him outright say something terrible about the Leafs but he'll use his advanced stats to paint a pretty bad picture.
Unhandled Exception
Member
LAZERZZZZZZ are the future of hockey stats. Lazerz pointed at all things.
It'll be a true test for if this team is any good.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Torts was right when he said they didn't give Florida respect: they'd been outshooting opponents with little to show for it and probably expected to score a bushel of goals against the Panthers.
Their middling record is about right for this team, though. They still need the Sedins to carry them and they've been very quiet since signing their new contracts. Their secondary scoring is unreliable at best and laughable most of the time. They're getting nothing from their offensive defensemen: Edler is a team-worst -9 with 2 goals and Garrison hasn't scored in 21 games. Burrows is -6 with 0 goals even playing with the Sedins; it would be acceptable if he wasn't making $4.5M this year. It looks like Torts has given up on Booth and his $4.2M salary.
That's $8.7M for one goal between Booth and Burrows. Santorelli has 5 goals at $0.6M.
Gillis did well to get some good depth in Richardson, Santorelli, and Stanton, but they're not going to carry the team every night. His options are limited with the lower cap and Booth untradeable, but he needs a top-6 scorer.
I'm puzzled why Torts hasn't tried Kassian with the Sedins yet. He has 4 goals despite averaging 12.5 minutes a game on the third line. For all his line juggling Torts hasn't moved anyone in the bottom six up except Santorelli.
It's kind of funny that everyone was wondering how Luongo would fare with all the offseason drama but he's been the least of the team's worries. Lack has been solid as well.
TL;DR version: make a trade, more goals from the defense, Sedins do something, give Kassian a chance.
Their middling record is about right for this team, though. They still need the Sedins to carry them and they've been very quiet since signing their new contracts. Their secondary scoring is unreliable at best and laughable most of the time. They're getting nothing from their offensive defensemen: Edler is a team-worst -9 with 2 goals and Garrison hasn't scored in 21 games. Burrows is -6 with 0 goals even playing with the Sedins; it would be acceptable if he wasn't making $4.5M this year. It looks like Torts has given up on Booth and his $4.2M salary.
That's $8.7M for one goal between Booth and Burrows. Santorelli has 5 goals at $0.6M.
Gillis did well to get some good depth in Richardson, Santorelli, and Stanton, but they're not going to carry the team every night. His options are limited with the lower cap and Booth untradeable, but he needs a top-6 scorer.
I'm puzzled why Torts hasn't tried Kassian with the Sedins yet. He has 4 goals despite averaging 12.5 minutes a game on the third line. For all his line juggling Torts hasn't moved anyone in the bottom six up except Santorelli.
It's kind of funny that everyone was wondering how Luongo would fare with all the offseason drama but he's been the least of the team's worries. Lack has been solid as well.
TL;DR version: make a trade, more goals from the defense, Sedins do something, give Kassian a chance.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Time for Red Wings good news/bad news:
Good news: Ken holland finally used the word "possible" in reference to calling up Nyquist.
Bad news: DAN FREAKING CLEARY is practicing on the first line at practice.
Keep in mind: this is after he has sucked horribly the last two months, knocked a guy's tooth out with a stupid high stick, earned a 4-minute penalty, and was then rewarded with the last minute and a half of ice time last night during the 6-on-5.
Good news: Ken holland finally used the word "possible" in reference to calling up Nyquist.
Bad news: DAN FREAKING CLEARY is practicing on the first line at practice.
Keep in mind: this is after he has sucked horribly the last two months, knocked a guy's tooth out with a stupid high stick, earned a 4-minute penalty, and was then rewarded with the last minute and a half of ice time last night during the 6-on-5.
CrazedArabMan
Member
How are we still in a somewhat comfortable playoff spot? Oh yeah, we are in the East. :/
Hey man the Metro is revving up!
Unhandled Exception
Member
Oh hey look, the final reason I will never buy another AC again:
http://www.videogamer.com/pc/assass...ucer_says_pc_optimisation_isnt_important.html
What a goddamn joke.
http://www.videogamer.com/pc/assass...ucer_says_pc_optimisation_isnt_important.html
What a goddamn joke.
https://mobile.twitter.com/EdmontonOilers/status/403016474861641729
This is probably the most exciting thing that happened yesterday. Nothing else happens, right? RIGHT?
This is probably the most exciting thing that happened yesterday. Nothing else happens, right? RIGHT?
I miss the Northwest 
Unhandled Exception
Member
https://mobile.twitter.com/EdmontonOilers/status/403016474861641729
This is probably the most exciting thing that happened yesterday. Nothing else happens, right? RIGHT?
I miss the Northwest
I dunno man, I think Crazed's daily meltdown blog is pretty exciting.