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herman said:That's some manipulative hostage-taking language they're spinning to their fanbase.
L K said:What is more offensive to me is that both Bettman and the team are making the "if you don't respect the team maybe it has to move" statements to a fanbase that comes out and supports the team. How insulting is that to Calgary fans that Phoenix gets to have 10,000 people show up to games and have the league bend over backwards to "make it work" but the NHL will be flippant with a reliable fanbase.
herman said:Drop everything. You're the new GM of the __________. Rank your preferences from 1-31 as to which teams you'd like to take over as of today.
CarltonTheBear said:I liked how their ad called themselves a "small market" team. Calgary's consistently in the top-10 in attendance every single year and they have the 4th largest metropolitan population in Canada.
herman said:Drop everything. You're the new GM of the __________. Rank your preferences from 1-31 as to which teams you'd like to take over as of today.
herman said:Drop everything. You're the new GM of the __________. Rank your preferences from 1-31 as to which teams you'd like to take over as of today.
herman said:The PDOCast looked at it more along the lines of their current salary commitments, talent level, prospect pipeline, and general likelihood of Stanley Cups in the next handful of years, not so much where the living is (but they should have).
I can only think up to 5.
1. Leafs
2. Predators
3. Lightning
4. Oilers
5. Penguins
Nik the Trik said:Maybe it's the ego in me but taking over the Preds or Lightning or Oilers based on the idea of cup winning in the near future seems like wanting to take credit for work that's already been done(or "work" in the Oilers case).
In the case of, say, the Knights you'd get the chance to build from scratch. I was always a Lego kid.
The question was simple: ?Do you know what your Corsi percentage was last season??
The answer: Not a single one of those players had even a vague idea.
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The follow-up question: ?Do you know what your plus/minus was last season??
Interestingly, for a stat that some say is the worst in hockey, 13 out of the 18 players polled either knew their exact plus/minus, or were within one or two. The others had a general idea of the range.
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?If there is one stat I could take away, it would be Corsi,? Seth Jones said. ?Because I don?t think it gives a full representation of the game. You can be caught in situations that are not your fault. You will have four shots against and you have nothing do with that situation.?
Nik the Trik said:In the article I think Eberle makes a good point and it's similar to one I've made over the years. I'm not anti-Corsi but I do think it would be a good addition to the discussion to grade "responsibility" for goals the way defensive metrics are often the result of grading fielders on plays.
CarltonTheBear said:Nik the Trik said:In the article I think Eberle makes a good point and it's similar to one I've made over the years. I'm not anti-Corsi but I do think it would be a good addition to the discussion to grade "responsibility" for goals the way defensive metrics are often the result of grading fielders on plays.
It's a good idea in theory yeah but that's a lot easier in baseball where every play can be looked at from an individual perspective. I mean we've all had arguments in GDTs about who should have been blamed for goals before and there's rarely an agreement. So how the league would determine guidelines to establish responsibility would be beyond me.
Say the Leafs have the puck in the offensive zone and Gardiner pinches and coughs up the puck and Marner doesn't back him up. The other team gets a 2-on-1 against Zaitsev and he doesn't really take the pass or the shot and the other team scores off a shot that even though it was an odd-man rush was weak enough that Andersen should have probably saved it. Who gets blamed?
CarltonTheBear said:It's a good idea in theory yeah but that's a lot easier in baseball where every play can be looked at from an individual perspective. I mean we've all had arguments in GDTs about who should have been blamed for goals before and there's rarely an agreement. So how the league would determine guidelines to establish responsibility would be beyond me.
CarltonTheBear said:Say the Leafs have the puck in the offensive zone and Gardiner pinches and coughs up the puck and Marner doesn't back him up. The other team gets a 2-on-1 against Zaitsev and he doesn't really take the pass or the shot and the other team scores off a shot that even though it was an odd-man rush was weak enough that Andersen should have probably saved it. Who gets blamed?
herman said:Corsi just flattens everything to equivalent value to let the much larger sample size normalize a lot of the more nuanced plays. It certainly won't paint a complete picture, but over a large enough span of time with the right context adjustments (score effects), it has accurately shown which players and systems drive play. Fenwick, etc. just build context on that simple shot measure.
herman said:Lunch thought:
Take any two teams/prospect pools in the NHL right now and combine them to form a mega team. Which two teams, and what's your cap-compliant lineup?