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2022-23 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion

https://twitter.com/camcharronyvr/status/1576906928676274176
When that department was formed in 2014, the landscape of hockey research was much different than it is today. At the time, it was probably easier to grab low-hanging fruit: Big players were overvalued, small players were undervalued, and teams signed players to contracts coming off career-high seasons in shooting percentage. Teams wasted roster spots on fighters, and they wasted draft picks on tall players who could dunk a basketball but offer little on the ice.

Being able to contribute to a team as the sport got progressively smarter was a rewarding experience, if not a little annoying when the same team (not saying who) kept drafting the same players that our department wanted to draft.

By 2022, the demands of the job changed. The low-hanging fruit is arguably gone, and teams now need people who are a lot smarter than me to make sense of the millions of data points that teams have access to. The basics of hockey analysis are so ingrained within the Maple Leafs? front office that they don?t need somebody at the table telling them why it doesn?t make sense to extend a player coming off a 21-goal season where he shot 14.3 percent, after previously only shooting 7.3 percent in his career.
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herman said:
https://twitter.com/camcharronyvr/status/1576906928676274176
When that department was formed in 2014, the landscape of hockey research was much different than it is today. At the time, it was probably easier to grab low-hanging fruit: Big players were overvalued, small players were undervalued, and teams signed players to contracts coming off career-high seasons in shooting percentage. Teams wasted roster spots on fighters, and they wasted draft picks on tall players who could dunk a basketball but offer little on the ice.

Being able to contribute to a team as the sport got progressively smarter was a rewarding experience, if not a little annoying when the same team (not saying who) kept drafting the same players that our department wanted to draft.

By 2022, the demands of the job changed. The low-hanging fruit is arguably gone, and teams now need people who are a lot smarter than me to make sense of the millions of data points that teams have access to. The basics of hockey analysis are so ingrained within the Maple Leafs? front office that they don?t need somebody at the table telling them why it doesn?t make sense to extend a player coming off a 21-goal season where he shot 14.3 percent, after previously only shooting 7.3 percent in his career.
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It's interesting to me because it's similar in my business.  We now have so much data that we employ data analysts to interpret the data because it has gotten much more complex.  Our job isn't really to interpret the raw data and make decisions...it's more like we have someone else interpret the compilation, then spoonfeed it to us, then we make decisions based on the spoonfeed.
 
Frank E said:
CarltonTheBear said:
People are really overthinking something that might happen like in like 1 or 2 shifts this entire season.
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Eh, Leaf fan clicks, right?
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Basically Marner already finds himself playing defense regularly anyway (Rielly pinches a lot!) and he even plays D-man minutes. The only thing this changes in those leverage situations is the other skater on the ice is Nylander instead of Brodie or Holl.
 
herman said:
The Athletic is running down their team projections as well (5 team chunks at a time) and the Leafs haven't been posted yet as the top 5 remains to be revealed.
https://theathletic.com/3608075/2022/10/03/nhl-team-previews-projections-rankings/
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Leafs are down to the final (top) 2 alongside Kadri and the Flames.
 
Sorry to go off topic.  Since the refresh I can't get on here via Tapatalk.  Anybody else with the same problem/solution (and additional apologies if this has already been asked/answered somwewhere).  Thx.
 
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Sorry to go off topic.  Since the refresh I can't get on here via Tapatalk.  Anybody else with the same problem/solution (and additional apologies if this has already been asked/answered somwewhere).  Thx.
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Yeah Tapatalk is broken, they are looking into it.  However the mobile version of this site is much improved now with the upgrade so give it a chance.
 
Rarely do I see the kiss of death phrased this way.

4 of the top 7 in the Atlantic.  Looking forward to Tampa in the first round. 😢
 
well this is good news for me:

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/longtime-toronto-maple-leafs-anthem-singer-says-it-s-time-to-step-away-1.6100973


I never cared for her version of the anthem. I know a lot of you liked her version, but I hated the way she did the last few bars.
 
LittleHockeyFan said:
well this is good news for me:

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/longtime-toronto-maple-leafs-anthem-singer-says-it-s-time-to-step-away-1.6100973


I never cared for her version of the anthem. I know a lot of you liked her version, but I hated the way she did the last few bars.
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She pulled a Whitney Houston every night. Not my thing.
 
LittleHockeyFan said:
well this is good news for me:

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/longtime-toronto-maple-leafs-anthem-singer-says-it-s-time-to-step-away-1.6100973


I never cared for her version of the anthem. I know a lot of you liked her version, but I hated the way she did the last few bars.
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Loved that part and her version. Best anthem singer since  Michael Burgess.
 
Mini Whitney just felt over rehearsed, good set of pipes but my preference for an anthem is more of the classic arena anthem style. We need a Rene Rancourt of our own
 
Well, I liked her.  For one thing, she can actually sing.  Yeah, the escalated ending got a bit stale, but she was super-consistent and not cloying.  I wouldn't mind an instrumental, or you know, just skip the damn anthems from now on.
 
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