2019-2020 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion

[herman]

Must be a proud movement for you Herman, to see you SIL doing such good work!!!!

A darn sight more welcome than whatever that dance video was

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/ThePHWA/status/1270340335240204288

Having every team pick a candidate for this award has always been dumb I think so I'm not getting worked up over this or anything... but I'm not sure how Hyman gets this over Holl.

 

[bustaheims]

https://twitter.com/ThePHWA/status/1270340335240204288

Having every team pick a candidate for this award has always been dumb I think so I'm not getting worked up over this or anything... but I'm not sure how Hyman gets this over Holl.

Returning from serious injury to produce at a career high pace > Taking advantage of the chance give to you after a coach who doesn't like you is fired.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Returning from serious injury to produce at a career high pace > Taking advantage of the chance give to you after a coach who doesn't like you is fired.

Yeah Hyman just seems like the easier choice for this award. "Pick the guy who had the worst injury recently". What happened to Holl last year could have torpedoed his career. Instead he kept working and finally broke into the NHL at the age of 27 and became a top-4* defenceman.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/kristen_shilton/status/1270362181545181188
https://twitter.com/kristen_shilton/status/1270387073904566272

 

[Frank E]

Returning from serious injury to produce at a career high pace > Taking advantage of the chance give to you after a coach who doesn't like you is fired.

Yeah Hyman just seems like the easier choice for this award. "Pick the guy who had the worst injury recently". What happened to Holl last year could have torpedoed his career. Instead he kept working and finally broke into the NHL at the age of 27 and became a top-4* defenceman.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Returning from serious injury to produce at a career high pace > Taking advantage of the chance give to you after a coach who doesn't like you is fired.

Yeah Hyman just seems like the easier choice for this award. "Pick the guy who had the worst injury recently". What happened to Holl last year could have torpedoed his career. Instead he kept working and finally broke into the NHL at the age of 27 and became a top-4* defenceman.

I put an asterisk there literally just for you you can't get mad.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/kristen_shilton/status/1270362181545181188
https://twitter.com/kristen_shilton/status/1270387073904566272

Potential line combinations being workshopped in these groupings:
Hyman-Matthews-Nylander (Kerfoot placeholder)
Mikheyev-Tavares-Marner

Reilly-Dermott
Muzzin-Holl (Ceci placeholder)

 

[herman]

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/zach-hyman-maple-leafs-easy-masterton-pick/

Yo, he's getting re-signed.

 

[L K]

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/zach-hyman-maple-leafs-easy-masterton-pick/

Yo, he's getting re-signed.

Imagine if Kadri didn't go insane and Hyman didn't tear his ACL.  We played the last 3 games of that series with two of our more "playoff built" players suspended/gimp.

 

[herman]

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/zach-hyman-maple-leafs-easy-masterton-pick/

Yo, he's getting re-signed.

Imagine if Kadri didn't go insane and Hyman didn't tear his ACL.  We played the last 3 games of that series with two of our more "playoff built" players suspended/gimp.

Imagine if the refs weren't b-holes?

 

[ZBBM]

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/zach-hyman-maple-leafs-easy-masterton-pick/

Yo, he's getting re-signed.

Imagine if Kadri didn't go insane and Hyman didn't tear his ACL.  We played the last 3 games of that series with two of our more "playoff built" players suspended/gimp.

And out to take the draws went Hyman, again and again.

 

[Bender]

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/zach-hyman-maple-leafs-easy-masterton-pick/

Yo, he's getting re-signed.

Imagine if Kadri didn't go insane and Hyman didn't tear his ACL.  We played the last 3 games of that series with two of our more "playoff built" players suspended/gimp.

Imagine if the refs weren't b-holes?

Man that was just brutal. Like they were playing in the Thunderdome.

 

[herman]

https://theathletic.com/1866055/2020/06/11/steve-valiquette-on-the-nhls-latest-trends-and-why-gms-should-take-note/

On the battle to convince GMs and coaches of what the data says:

Every team now employs an analytics team and a coaching staff and those two departments have to then relay up to the GM that everybody?s doing their job, and there can be conflict there. Now, there?s another layer of conflict.

The reason why I was first hired by an NHL team three years ago* was because I was coming in as the third party that was going to mediate the scoring chances the day after a game was played. Because the analytics group wouldn?t be in line with what the coaches believed they saw. Depending on the game, one day you?d have the goalie coach doing the chances, one day the defense coach doing it. And a chance that goes towards the other team?s net is not qualified the same as one you receive, so there?s a lot of internal struggle there.

One of our shot types has been getting lower and lower every year ? clear-sighted shots, ones where the goalie has more than half a second of clear sight on the puck before it comes off the stick from the slot. When you look at most of the public data, that shot from the slot area ? home plate, the house, however you refer to it ? that would be qualified as a high-danger shot for most companies out there.

That doesn?t qualify as a high-danger shot for us because we?ve looked at roughly 5,000 chances a year on clear-sighted shots that come from the slot. So a player skates into the slot area, unobstructed, has a bit of time and space, shoots and tries to beat a goalie clean. Now, the unfortunate role I have is that I have to go and explain to a team that this year, that shot only went in 7.1 percent of the time.

It?s a shot that goes in less than nine percent of the time. What it leads to is, ?OK, Steve, send me the list of shots, wise guy.? So, I?ll send you everything we have. Here?s the video.

I?ll share a couple of the conversations I?ve had. Auston Matthews**, he had 41 clear-sighted shots from the slot area in the NHL. Led the league. How many goals would you guess he?d have from there?

I was like, ?11?? He?s the best shooter in the game, isn?t he? He had four. Four goals on 41 shots, and this is the guy I rave about on MSG about his release. But I watched those 41 shots just to be sure, and I see the goals he does score. He actually scores when he?s shooting through a defender?s triangle, he?s got a really good drag and pull, a release that comes off quickly and surprises goalies when he uses the defender as a screen. So that?s a tactic he uses very well.

* Pretty sure this is the Leafs.
** hello, mild wrist injury

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Let's maybe cut back a paragraph or two or six-ish from that paywall'd article.

 

[herman]

Let's maybe cut back a paragraph or two or six-ish from that paywall'd article.

Ah, I thought it'd be okay because it's a transcript from a podcast. I'll pare it down!

 

[Frank E]

I'm starting to think that herman works for The Athletic...

Next thing you know herman is providing a discount code.  What's the commission herman?

 

[herman]

I'm starting to think that herman works for The Athletic...

Next thing you know herman is providing a discount code.  What's the commission herman?

You should see my Justin Holl/Martin Marincin articles

 

[Frank E]

I'm starting to think that herman works for The Athletic...

Next thing you know herman is providing a discount code.  What's the commission herman?

You should see my Justin Holl/Martin Marincin articles

I've written something I've titled "Leafs' Missing Link: Connor Brown"...can you help get it published?

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

https://twitter.com/TicTacTOmar/status/1271117471878189057