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NHL November 2014 |OT| Cleary Must Be Always
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Lone_Prodigy
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Love this fourth line.
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
Wow a regulation win!
Flying high
Wow a regulation win!
Flying high
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Been a while since we've won in regulation...
TheKaeptain
Banned
NHL.com is having a sale. Spend over $100 and get 20 dollars off.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Crawford has been great. Canucks' lack of finish will cost them.
Calamari41
41 > 38
I know this is old but I've been at the movies since my last post. Club level, section 318. It's in line with the goal that the Ducks shoot at twice. Try to get seats on stage left of the section.
Plus if you end up there, you will be sitting next to me.
TheKaeptain
Banned
There's nothing there for the Habs game.
I'll just wait until the game comes around.
ZeroGravity
Member
In Montreal's six regulation losses, they've been outscored 30-3.
What a ridiculously bipolar team.
What a ridiculously bipolar team.
Calamari41
41 > 38
Check with ticket brokers closer to the date. A lot of times season ticket holders will put them up for face value.
Holy fuck
Canucks/Hawks game has had some good spells. Hopefully will be a good 3rd
HANSEN !! he's so hot right now
Also Dorsett has been a solid fucking playmaker so far. Not what I expected
SpectreFire
Member
2ND POINT FOR BOLIEVE
THE HORVAT ERA IS GLORIOUS
THE HORVAT ERA IS GLORIOUS
TheKaeptain
Banned
That's what I am hoping.
From a faceoff win, too. The kid is money in the circle
Hansen generating more offense on the 4th line than he ever has on the 1st
SpectreFire
Member
He's 11/14 on the night. That's 79%, good lord.
SpectreFire
Member
HONEY BADGER DON'T GIVE A FUCK
Indrid Cold
Unconfirmed Member
Hatty!! Hansen on fire lol Good for him.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
This seems like an insult after all the stuff I bought for like 80% off from amazon.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Great to see Horvat out there in the final minute.
THREE ASSISTS FOR HORVAT.
THREE ASSISTS FOR HORVAT.
Its the best we can hope for.
3 secondary assists. He still hasn't demonstrated the offensive upside of things that you want from a 9th overall pick (he will, in time, I think), but he's proven he's good defensively and in the FO circle.
He's definitely earned his spot on the roster, though, which is awesome. They'd better not send him down.
Erdrick
Member
At the Jets/Blues game earlier this afternoon, during one of the commercial breaks, they had some guy on the big screen in centre ice, wearing one of those ugly sweaters that I've seen some of you talking of here. It didn't look so bad in person, actually.
Shame the Jets lost though. Also really, REALLY wish Evander Kane would start producing points instead of just boneheaded penalties. Regardless if the officials have it in for him or not. That double-minor made me lose it in the third. Can't blame Pavs for this loss. The defence needs to stop messing around in our zone with the puck. It just leads to turnovers and giveaways.
Shame the Jets lost though. Also really, REALLY wish Evander Kane would start producing points instead of just boneheaded penalties. Regardless if the officials have it in for him or not. That double-minor made me lose it in the third. Can't blame Pavs for this loss. The defence needs to stop messing around in our zone with the puck. It just leads to turnovers and giveaways.
SpectreFire
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One of them was a primary assist. The one on Hansen's first goal. The thing with Horvat though, his game is always defensively minded first, so unlike an offensively minded player, his first though process through these 9 games isn't to scores lots of points. It's to play really sound and safe hockey, to prove he's not at all a liability on ice, then once he makes it past the 9 game mark, he should be confident enough to open up offensively.
There's not way they're sending him down at this point. He's by far the best face-off guy on a very weak face-off team, and I think he's definitely their third best center behind Bonino. He's too good to send back, and the team needs him too much.
7points in 9 games is pretty decent while averaging 9minutes a game for a rookie, no?
Explain those stats please
And yeah they'll be a wildcard team (I think LA and SJ will pass them)... unless Dallas, Minnesota and Colorado can turn things around. I think Minny will cause problems for sure.
I agree with you - we're basically saying the same thing.
4 points. Your reference must have already been updated.
Tonight was an outlier, of course, with our 4th line providing two key goals and an empty nether.
SpectreFire
Member
Man, it's been so long since we've had a legitimate 4th line where the coach isn't just hurrying as fast as possible to get them off the ice.
PDO is save percentage + Shooting %, generally averages about 100 across the league.
PDO's that are way above 100 (ie. anything above 101.50-102 really) suggest that either the team is getting lucky with goals (higher then average shooting %) or getting some above average goaltending. A high PDO is not sustainable and suggests regression (less goals, more goals against).
Fenwick For % is essentially corsi, but does not count blocked shots. A FF% of 51% suggests an above average possession team, top 10 right now in the league actually. Your generating more unblocked shot attempts then the other team.
The whole basis behind that analysis is that poor possesion (tons of chances against) and high PDO (getting lucky) together suggest lots of regression, which is how advanced stats guys predicted the collapse of the Leafs last year. So Vancouver has a lowish PDO and a great FF% which suggests sustainability in their current results.
Huh really? Didn't think NHL.com updated that quickly, was right when the game ended.
Thanks man. Hadn't come across PDO before.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
Canucks had good fancy stats last year. They just had terrible luck scoring goals. Of course there were other factors that rhymed with "shorts" involved but a low shooting percentage didn't help.
I just remembered that Burrows is hurt. When he's back I think Vey will be a scratch. Nevertheless it's a decent group of 13 forwards.
Will see how the blue line holds up. Hamhuis is out for a long time.
I just remembered that Burrows is hurt. When he's back I think Vey will be a scratch. Nevertheless it's a decent group of 13 forwards.
Will see how the blue line holds up. Hamhuis is out for a long time.
Unhandled Exception
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Guys never buy MSi motherboards. Their amazingly useful software just auto updated my bios to a version that is incompatible with my cpu. My desktop won't even post now.
SmackCrackleNPop
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ASUS for life
ASRock says pls
edit: damn, my badboy is old! barely found it on the website http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/P45XE/index.us.asp
edit: damn, my badboy is old! barely found it on the website http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/P45XE/index.us.asp
That one wasn't even his fault, really. The other Blues' player (incidentally) pushed Kane's stick into his teammate's face.
Calamari41
41 > 38
PDO, another nonsense stat.
It only works if every goalie is the same, every assortment skaters on a team is roughly the same and every team played the game the exact same way.
I don't know why hockey of all sports ended up adopting the dumbest stats which describe absolutely nothing.
If your team plays extremely good defense, it inflates SV% because higher ratio of perimeter shots against vs actual scoring chances. If you have that coupled with a very talented 3+ line roster, you will have a higher sh%.
Again. Another stat that would make a whole lot more sense with SONQ differential weights. Then you can see what team is actually being lucky based on their actual sh% and sv% relative to the quality of shots they are registering, especially if you weight each shot by player class (so that way you can see not only if you are actually being lucky or unlucky, but which players/lines are the cause of it)
PDO is just a bad stat on its own.
It only works if every goalie is the same, every assortment skaters on a team is roughly the same and every team played the game the exact same way.
I don't know why hockey of all sports ended up adopting the dumbest stats which describe absolutely nothing.
If your team plays extremely good defense, it inflates SV% because higher ratio of perimeter shots against vs actual scoring chances. If you have that coupled with a very talented 3+ line roster, you will have a higher sh%.
Again. Another stat that would make a whole lot more sense with SONQ differential weights. Then you can see what team is actually being lucky based on their actual sh% and sv% relative to the quality of shots they are registering, especially if you weight each shot by player class (so that way you can see not only if you are actually being lucky or unlucky, but which players/lines are the cause of it)
PDO is just a bad stat on its own.
Somehow missed this earlier this week, open season against Gallagher confirmed.