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NHL Realignment
NHL realignment talk is in the air. With the Thrashers move to Winnipeg it gives the league the opportunity to make a few changes that have been sitting in their "To-do" box for quite some time.
According to Craig Custance the new alignment would cut the divisions down from three per conference to two. And apparently Detroit, Columbus, and Nashville would be interested...
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June 28, 2011
Your First Round Results
Everything is going to be okay. I have a large bowl of ice cream in front of me. I'll have something on the end of the Penguins season sometime tomorrow. But for now, here are the your first round, and what a hell of a round it was, results.
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April 27, 2011
Predicting the Playoffs is Simple
With the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs kicking off tomorrow, many people are sitting down with a pencil and a bracket today, myself included. And as I make my best Nostradamus impression, I keep telling myself those pieces of advice we tend to repeat in these times. That defense wins championships. That the Sharks will choke. That it’s about the match-up not the seed. That the seed...
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April 12, 2011
Official NHL Concussion Test
After Maple Leaf Mikhail Grabovski "got his bell wrung" a couple times the other night by Zdeno Chara and returned to the ice, more than a few people questioned whether Grabovski was playing with a concussion. Brian Burke put at ease everyone by explaining that he had been checked out and definitely did not have a concussion.
As we are discovering more and more about the...
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February 17, 2011
The Importance of 2nd and 3rd Goals
Sometimes you don't know what you've got sitting in front of you. Story goes that a relative of mine ordered something from an infomercial which arrived with a set of circular decorative pieces. Not knowing what they were, they were cycled through a variety of uses and purposes. It was only some time later during the holiday season that a guest wondered aloud why there were...
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January 19, 2011
What's a Goal Worth?
Most of these statistical endeavours start off with a simple question.
When I asked myself "Who has the most dangerous shot in the NHL?" I came up with the Shots Taken per Goal and Shots On-Net % statistics (taking into factor missed shots, which the NHL's Shooting % does not).
Today I wondered simply, "What is a goal worth?"
The answer I came up with, about...
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January 13, 2011
Lies, Damn Lies, and ESPN's Statistic
I'm really not sure the last time I wrote about anything besides hockey on this blog. It just happened at some point. Originally I thought I needed to be broader, writing about the happenings in a wide variety of sports. Somehow I eventually settled into hockey. Which retrospectively makes a good deal of sense since it is both a niche sport and the sport I am most fond of. However...
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December 30, 2010
Shots Taken per Goal
In a battle along the half-boards a winger kicks the puck back to the blue-line. The defenseman throws it across the ice to his partner, who settles the puck down, takes a stride towards the net, raises his stick and sends a shot .... three feet wide and a foot too high, right off the windshield.
Missed shots tend to drive me crazy. I've been known to fire off a quick frustrated...
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December 20, 2010
Disparity
With the disparity between games played, even a quarter way into the NHL season, the regular standings are pretty indiscernible. Unlike baseball, standard standings do not make use of the Games Behind statistic, which, when comparing a team like the Bruins who have played 17 games to the Penguins who have played 21, can be quite useful.
And so here we have it. A current (set to be...
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November 20, 2010
Snitches
You might want to take a seat. I have news.
I don't know if you have heard or not, but in some emails from within NHL headquarters three years ago someone had the audacity to claim that a certain player, Marc Savard, has a proclivity towards accentuating penalties in an effort to buy calls.
Yes. Diving. Or being "a fake artist" as Colin Campbell so eloquently worded it.
I am shocked...
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November 16, 2010
The Blame Game
I have counted. It's been 16 months, 2 weeks, and 2 days. Since that picture was taken. Since Marc-Andre Fleury backstopped the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Stanley Cup championship. Since Fleury allegedly answered the questions and doubt that has dogged him through his career.
"Trade Fluery" opined one fan on twitter last night, using the unorthodox "u-e"...
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October 28, 2010
Infographic: Spending By Position
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September 13, 2010
Infographic: Shut-outs Since the Lockout
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September 10, 2010
Infographic: Hat-tricks Since the Lockout
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September 08, 2010
On Balance
It’s not that simple,” Brian Burke said, voicing the minority opinion in front of a Toronto conference room filled with the most influential minds in hockey.
In the afterglow of the games once in a generation success at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the overwhelming consensus at the Word Hockey Summit is that it is, in fact, that simple. The NHL should go to Sochi in 2014...
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September 03, 2010
Someone Must Be Blamed
“This is all your fault. All you had to do was win a shootout. If the Flyers win the Stanley Cup, I’ll never forgive you.”
These were the words I sent to a good friend and Rangers fan in the aftermath of the Flyers Mike Richards lifting the Prince of Wales trophy after eliminating the Montreal Canadiens and advancing as the Eastern Conference representation in the 2010...
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May 29, 2010
Seventh Times the Charm
One hundred sixty-five minutes and fifty seconds of hockey ago Milan Lucic flew down the ice, hit the right point and threw a wrist shot that beat Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Michael Leighton low far-side, putting the Boston Bruins up 3-0 in the first period of a decisive game seven. Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette called a rare first period time out and gathered his skaters...
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May 20, 2010
Sideline Seats
As the puck drops on the Conference finals, don’t mind me if I don’t quite know what to do. For the first time since June 2008, NHL hockey is being played and the Pittsburgh Penguins aren’t in on it. I feel lost.
Don’t get me wrong, no one should feel even the slightest bit sorry for me. Eleven months ago my boyhood team raised the Stanley Cup for the first time that it really...
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May 16, 2010
Nervous Musings
How We Got Here, and How We Beat the Habs Rope-A-Dope Defense
QB SACK!A month ago, anxiously awaiting the puck to drop on the NHL postseason, I harped on two things to anyone that would even feign a lent ear. One, as a Penguins fan an eventual match-up with the New Jersey Devils would be our undoing. More than anyone else, they scared me. It was an individual match-up thing. They...
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May 12, 2010
The Streaking Washington Capitals
With the number one spot in the East clinched, the Presidents Trophy within grasp, and the largest goal differential in the league by 28 goals (+78) the Alexander Ovechkin led Washington Capitals are undeniably the most dangerous team in the NHL.
They are also one of the league's streakiest.
The Capitals have racked up three-or-more consecutive wins seven times this season...
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April 01, 2010
The Bizarro Season
And now for something completely different. Not a blog post. Not 400 words about something that happened ten seconds ago and will be yesterdays news tomorrow. No, a nice little essay on the first season back from the lockout and the effects on it's statistics. As you'll see, I've obviously been reading Bill Simmons too much, and the short essay is jammed with footnotes...
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November 23, 2009
It Promises Lots of Words and No Pictures
When not making cheap cracks about Peter Pocklington on Twitter, or watching George Laraque's Octane alcoholic-energy drink commercial, I sometimes actually write about hockey. Usually no one reads those. Understandably, they're longer than 140 characters and they don't have videos of scandalously hot women stretching.However, if your in the mood and were wondering just...
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October 13, 2009
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