LGR4GM Posted April 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 Caption This: leave Brittany alone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 (edited) Cool article on 538 about advanced stats and zone entry strategy: http://fivethirtyeig...nced-stats-era/ Somewhere, Jessica Schmidt was watching. She has spent the last two seasons tracking each entry into the offensive zone with a spreadsheet open in front of her. A 26-year-old diehard hockey fan, she had read some articles I wrote about the Flyers’ zone entries in the 2011-12 season and the usefulness of zone entries in assessing a team’s performance. When the Flyers missed the playoffs in 2013, she wanted to know what had gone wrong and volunteered to try recording the zone entries herself. Tracking by Schmidt and others has helped explain that a team’s entry into the offensive zone has a big impact on its shot differential. Carrying the puck into the offensive zone leads to more than twice as many shots and goals as a dump-and-chase play does, even after removing plays like odd-man rushes and dump-ins that are made just to buy time for a line change. These results have even made an impact on strategy. The guy who wrote that article, Eric Tulsky, is a consultant for teams like Nashville and runs a blog over on sbnation about stats. http://www.sbnation.com/outnumbered Edited April 7, 2014 by d4rksabre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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That Aud Smell Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 who're the people around here with the man-crush on evander kane? http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on-hockey/24517942/evander-kane-stays-mum-on-trade-talk-after-healthy-scratch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 who're the people around here with the man-crush on evander kane? http://www.cbssports...healthy-scratch He's a 30-goal scorer who could be a 40-goal scorer if he wasn't so concerned with everything but hockey. Frustrating. I'd take him on a team full of leaders, but I wouldn't really be ecstatic about bringing him into a situation full of youth. Pittsburgh would be a great fit for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26CornerBlitz Posted April 7, 2014 Report Share Posted April 7, 2014 @NHLonTSN Steve Yzerman has signed a four-year contract extension with the Tampa Bay Lightning. #TSN #NHL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Amerk Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 (edited) He's a 30-goal scorer who could be a 40-goal scorer if he wasn't so concerned with everything but hockey. Frustrating. I'd take him on a team full of leaders, but I wouldn't really be ecstatic about bringing him into a situation full of youth. Pittsburgh would be a great fit for him. I think Nolan would have a better shot of whipping him into shape than Noel or Maurice or Bylsma. Edited April 8, 2014 by Andrew Amerk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwksndmonster Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 I think Nolan would have a better shot of whipping him into shape than Noel or Maurice or Bylsma. I don't think we have the roster to accommodate a player like him. If we already had solid player leadership, I'd be okay with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 I think Nolan would have a better shot of whipping him into shape than Noel or Maurice or Bylsma. No chance he'd fit on this young team, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunomatic Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Canucks miss playoffs with loss to Anaheim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 I don't think we have the roster to accommodate a player like him. If we already had solid player leadership, I'd be okay with it. I'd trade Erhoff for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deluca67 Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Canucks miss playoffs with loss to Anaheim. The Devils chances took a monster hit last nigh as well. Congratulations to the Blue Jackets if they can hang on over the last four games. Looking at the top team s in the west, out of the top six, possible only the Avalanche would be considered a surprise if they ended up hoisting the Stanley Cup. It's going to be about match-ups and survival in the West. Again this year a .500 record and a plus goal differential seems to be marker for making the playoffs/being in the hunt. The only exception appears to be Detroit who has a minus 11 goal differential and will need to win out over the final four games to reach .500. All 14 non-playoff teams will finish with less than 40 wins and negative goal differentials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trettioåtta Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 (edited) I think Nolan would have a better shot of whipping him into shape than Noel or Maurice or Bylsma. This is not aimed at you really, but it does amuse me that so many of us (me included) have this image that TN can turn anybody around. Like his super power is to give aimless wanders purpose. Let's trade for OV, Kane and Semin and watch Nolan turn them into Gretzky, Lemieux and Hull :P Edited April 8, 2014 by ThirtyEight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastPommerFan Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 This is not aimed at you really, but it does amuse me that so many of us (me included) have this image that TN can turn anybody around. Like his super power is to give aimless wanders purpose. Let's trade for OV, Kane and Semin and watch Nolan turn them into Gretzky, Lemieux and Hull :P Josie- If you get bored sometime, can we get a superhero Ted Nolan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpandean Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Again this year a .500 record and a plus goal differential seems to be marker for making the playoffs/being in the hunt. The only exception appears to be Detroit who has a minus 11 goal differential and will need to win out over the final four games to reach .500. All 14 non-playoff teams will finish with less than 40 wins and negative goal differentials. Detroit has had 5 SO wins and 8 SO losses, so their actual goal differential is only -8. Their record, when expressed as ROW/ROL/SO(W or L) is: 32-33-13 I know that SO's are part of the scoring system, so you can't completely ignore them. However, even the league acknowledges that they are different by tracking ROW. If I were trying to create a model to predict playoff performance, I would likely treat them as a tie or something much less than a normal win/loss. In fact, look at the current records as I describe them: Dark Green = In (locked), Light Green = In (not locked), Yellow = Out (Not Eliminated), Red = Eliminated NJ is out because they have been unimaginably terrible team in a meaningless (come playoff time) part of the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 NJ is out because they have been unimaginably terrible team in a meaningless (come playoff time) part of the game. I'm too lazy to go digging through the standings, but did you happen to see any specific teams that are in for the opposite reason, being really good in that skills competition? There has to be someone that won an unusually high number of shootouts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpandean Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 (edited) I'm too lazy to go digging through the standings, but did you happen to see any specific teams that are in for the opposite reason, being really good in that skills competition? There has to be someone that won an unusually high number of shootouts. Toronto is a lot closer than they would be, having gone 9-4 in shootouts. Other teams that had strong records: St. Louis (9-3), San Jose (10-7), Pittsburgh (6-2), Montreal (6-3), LA (8-4), Columbus (5-2), Calgary (6-3) and Buffalo (7-4). Washington went 10-10, so they got a lot of points in the SO, but no more than a coin-flip amount given they were in so many. Anaheim (2-6), Philly (3-7), Nashville (2-8), Carolina (1-4) and, of course, NJ (0-11) were particularly bad. Nashville and NJ are on the outside, in part, because of that. Edited April 8, 2014 by carpandean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brawndo Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 Sounds like a big shakeup (no big surprise there) on the way for the Canucks, possibly as early as today. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/fire-gillis--hire-trevor-linden--vancouver-canucks-changes-could-happen-soon-151134392.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josie Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 (edited) Josie- If you get bored sometime, can we get a superhero Ted Nolan. :P ..... my lunchbreak is soon. Edited April 8, 2014 by Josie914 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 :P ..... my lunchbreak is soon. Lo! For he is the shepherd! And hockey players but wandering sheep, in need of hugs and love! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josie Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastPommerFan Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 [AMAZINGNESS] YESSS!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josie Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 YESSS!!!!! I honestly read what you said up there as "superman" not "superhero". Oh well. TN has the hair for it. S fer Sabres, boys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksabre Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 I was hoping for a medicine man meets Jesus look, but this is way less offensive :lol: love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastPommerFan Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 I think we found our new default avatar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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