Lol! My Ducks at 46%Too early? Yes. But who cares...
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NHL October 2015 |OT| Dan Cleary was re-signed
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Calamari41
41 > 38
Interesting that they're still given such a high percent. I guess all it takes is one solid winning streak to nullify this whole episode, but still. Doesn't seem like things are getting any better any time soon.
Still better than Arizona's lol
Team just isn't jelling.
Calamari41
41 > 38
Time to send a shipment of Dr. Scholl's to the Honda Center.
MultiJhonny
Banned
Raffl passed concussion tests. Expected to play tomorrow night. Great news after such a scary incident
Patience, things will get better the moment you arrive to the AAC.
BUT if you, for some fucking weird reason, are not able to score against Lehtonen then it'll be time to panic.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Something is not clicking out there.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
It's a poultry amount of goals.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
More Barkov updates , saw a hand specialist today and will not need surgery. 2-4 weeks for return.
The first 10 games of a season are often pretty indicative of where teams will end up
Obviously shit happens like the Senators run, but on average having a poor start is really difficult to over come.
Our worst games of last year weren't as bad as this years games have been.
That's what I'd expect to hear a fan of a team on the outside looking in to say.
If you don't have a playoff spot on halloween... you're very unlikely to get one.
Well, it isn't so much that it's difficult to overcome. It's that poor teams often have poor starts and great teams often have great starts. But the statistics, as you've demonstrated, most definitely 'allow' for great teams to have poor starts and turn it around. And vice versa.
I think it's crazy that, if they were in the Central instead of the Pacific, the Ducks playoffs odds would already be around 20%. But they are lucky that they only have to catch the third best team in the Pacific, which should be doable. The chart terrifies me as a Jets fan because it shows how we need another Central team, probably the Hawks or Stars, to continue or start sucking enough for us to finish ahead of them. And damn that's kinda hard to imagine, which means that even playing as well as they are (good, not great) and banking some points early it's going to be extremely tough to make it.
Naturally, all right thinking hockey fans are hoping the Ducks skid continues so they fire Boudreau and hire Carlyle again, because holy shit would that be funny.
Sad to see Evander Kane hurt again, but it's sure not a shocker to see him go down for a few weeks. Love that guy when he's playing (mostly, parts of his game are seemingly designed to drive fans of his team nuts) but even though his injuries aren't often related he just has so many you start to wonder.
Avocados are like a dollar now.
Babcock is gonna lead this shitty team to a 12th overall finish.
I knew he was a great coach, but god damn it.
Forgot to edit this in my other post. The Ducks have a shooting percentage of 2.5% right now, which is almost impossibly bad. And since SP beyond a percentage point or so past the league average is mostly luck it's a big sign that they are just hugely unluckly so far and they'll start winning soon. But will they panic and fire Boudreau first? I think it would be a huge mistake because I think he's a good coach (granted other ppl disagree) but if they did ignoring everything else just regression on SP alone would probably mean the Ducks would fire off a nice winning streak when the new come comes in. Which obviously happens a lot when new coaches come in.
I agree. I mean look at these playoff series we would get in the East if the playoffs started right now:
Habs-Wings, Battle of Florida, Rangers-Flyers, and an Isles-Caps rematch? Not bad.
brucewaynegretzky
Member
I agree. I mean look at these playoff series we would get in the East if the playoffs started right now:
Habs-Wings, Battle of Florida, Rangers-Flyers, and an Isles-Caps rematch? Not bad.
This will be a fun post to reference later in the season...
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
I agree. I mean look at these playoff series we would get in the East if the playoffs started right now:
Habs-Wings, Battle of Florida, Rangers-Flyers, and an Isles-Caps rematch? Not bad.
I want to see Caps/Rangers again. For reasons...
Yeah, but as opposed to who else?
Is there any D on this team other than Methot that can reasonably pair up with Karlsson?
Calamari41
41 > 38
There's nothing I hate more than the "we're so unlucky" excuse, but that's honestly kind of what I've observed. Especially in the Colorado game, where we had an absolutely massive number of our shots blocked. I can't find the exact stat, but I believe they were saying on the radio right after the game that the number was in the 40s.
Shooting % is basically driven by three things:
1. Opposition goaltending
2. Luck
3. Talent
The fact is you can't control any of these. You can change the roster to affect the talent, but the Ducks clearly have the talent because they've shot for a high percentage in the past.
One thing that doesn't really affect shooting % is coaching. Coaching systems can affect save % to a small degree with defensive tactics, but not really true with sh%. It just comes and goes.
1. Opposition goaltending
2. Luck
3. Talent
The fact is you can't control any of these. You can change the roster to affect the talent, but the Ducks clearly have the talent because they've shot for a high percentage in the past.
One thing that doesn't really affect shooting % is coaching. Coaching systems can affect save % to a small degree with defensive tactics, but not really true with sh%. It just comes and goes.
Fata1moose
Banned
Our TV selection is usually pretty good, but as far as movies are concerned it takes a long time for them to go up on streaming and it's usually a poor selection.
Saw that this morning. Actual shocking news.
Shocking.
Weirdock? Wideman?
Even Cowen before Boroshit.
Now it looks like hes been scratched for next game. Only in Ottawa would you go from the 3rd pairing to the 1st pairing then to being scratched.
I bought two sets of Force Awakens tickets for opening weekend at the VIP theatre. My wife will go to one showing with me, but the other I'll probably end up going to alone. I don't even care lol.
I *could* describe how excited I am for this movie but I won't because it's downright sad.
I *could* describe how excited I am for this movie but I won't because it's downright sad.
In Europe, thats called Smelly's mom.
You want a shutdown guy to go with Karlsson. Weircoch and Wideman are puck movers, so I can see why Boro would be chosen over those guys and it's not a slight on those two. As for Cowen, yeah maybe he could be better, but I'm not sure Cameron is all that confident with him.
Calamari41
41 > 38
Silver Arrows
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I don't know what's better, Marvie's burn or your reaction GIF
I just sw Ex Machina and It Follows were added. Need to watch both of those.
Calamari41
41 > 38
I just saw this two days ago myself, and agree. The concept is amazing, but there are only two remotely scary scenes in the whole thing. The movie constantly breaks its own rules, and the main characters act like complete idiots and also pass over the simple solution to the issue even with it staring the dude in the face at the end.
Ex Machina is great, watched it in theatres. Know nothing about It Follows.
It was shown last year that Weidcocks best games was when he was paired with Karlsson, this isn't the 2003 NHL where you need a so called shut down guy with the puck mover, 2 puck movers on a one line that drives possession is more ideal. As for Cowen, coach seems to play him almost 20minutes a night, I call that confidence.
MultiJhonny
Banned
Yeah Ex Machina was awesome.
I loved It Follows. the movie sticks with you for awhile. pretty creepy.
Fata1moose
Banned
#REKT