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A Little Ditty
April 06, 2009 by
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Dear Ron MacLean.Dear Coach’s Corner.I’m writing in orderfor someone to explainto my niece the distinctionbetween these mandatory pre-game group rites of submissionand the rallies at Nuremburg.Specifically the functionthe ritual serves in conjunctionwith what everybody knowsisâ€...
A Swing and a Miss?
July 02, 2008 by
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If you take last year's club, subtract Streit, Ryder and Smolinski and add Tanguay, here is the lineup we'd be looking at:Pencil in a combined $3.5M for Halak, Gorges and O'Byrne and we're sitting at a cap number of $49.3M for 12 forwards, 7 defensemen (including Dandenault...
Loading Up
June 20, 2008 by
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Interesting draft day for the Canadiens - At first glance, I like the Tanguay deal. There is only one year left on his current contract at $5.25M (making him the highest-paid forward on the team). Check out these posts from BoA . The price may be steep but the guy is a star EV player...
Crosby. CrosbyCrosbyCrosby.
June 07, 2008 by
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Call this a backlash against a backlash.After the first two playoff rounds, a lot of very reasonable people were suggesting that Malkin might actually be a better player than Sid. Crazy talk, that was. Crosby was the best player in the final - quite a feat for a 20-year-old whose team...
Some Numbers
May 30, 2008 by
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Back when the Zednik incident occurred, there was a lot of commentary about how dangerous the NHL game could be and some lobbying for steps that should be taken to make it safer. Out of curiosity, I did a little math and did a little googling.There have been ~35,500 games played in...
Playoff Numbers
May 23, 2008 by
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Discovered via Mirtle, the playoff stats are up at Behindthenet.Only ten games are listed for the Habs. I'm not sure which two are missing.Quality of OppositionIn such a small sample, the QUALCOMP measure can be misleading. The Bruins' 4th line blew away the Lapierre line....
Projecting Gorges
May 22, 2008 by
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Josh Gorges is an interesting case. Passed over in his draft year of 2002, he attended the Sharks camp that fall and they signed him. Since then he's been on an above average track in his NHL career.Gorges appears to be ahead of Rivet, Rivers, Dykhuis and Lukowich at 23.A couple...
Projecting Komisarek
May 21, 2008 by
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We're verging on blindfolded darts here - this one is even less exact than Chipchura.Komisarek is quite clearly a defensive defenceman. I thought it would be hard to come up with similar players but I'm pleased with these lists of past and present defensive defencemen. Rather...
Projecting Perezhogin
May 15, 2008 by
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He's still technically Montreal property.His NHL numbers say '3rd liner,' which is about as much as you can expect from a #25 draft pick. His RSL numbers say 'sniper.' Last season at 24 he was the top scorer for Ufa. And get this: during the lockout year he put...
Projecting Grabovski
May 15, 2008 by
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Grabovski scored in his limited icetime to the tune of a respectable 1.94 EVPTS/60. He also gave up lots of scoring chances against.In his defense, Grabovski is a Jan 31 birthday, making him as young as possible and still qualify as 23/24 in his NHL seasons on hockey-referece. Why...
Projecting Chipchura
May 14, 2008 by
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With a skater like Kyle Chipchura, point totals aren't going to tell us a whole lot. He wasn't drafted to score. That forced me to dig a little deeper into Chipchura's record, so this might be a more indepth look than previous posts.A severed achilles tendon that cost him...
Give 'til it Hurts
May 13, 2008 by
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After a bit of back & forth, the chaps over at PPP have donated $120 to the Saku Koivu Foundation. I'm impressed.In response, I'd like to see if readers here can match that in donarions to the Geneva Centre for Autism. It's a charity supported by the Leafs Fund.If you...
Latendresse II
May 13, 2008 by
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There is a post by MC79 from back in December, and it is an interesting one. It looks at recent players' 20/21yo seasons and where they stand in a percentile ranking of their EV points. Go read it then come back. I'll wait.So Guillaume Latendresse just completed his 20yo season...
Projecting Latendresse
May 13, 2008 by
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Early this year Latendresse was tried on the 3rd line ahead of Begin/Kostopoulos but couldn't stick. When Ryder was demoted Gui was surpassed by Sergei (who is actually older by two months) for a job on the top 6. His chances have been scarce but he's still showing some progress...
Projecting Lapierre
May 11, 2008 by
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In his 21yo season Lapierre was .26ppg in the NHL and .29ppg NHLE in the AHL. At 22, he was .34ppg in the show and .32ppg NHLE in Hamilton. Pretty consistent. We should have a bead on his abilities at this stage in his career.Vermette was in the AHL at 22 due to the lockout. At 23...
Projecting Sergei Kostitsyn
May 10, 2008 by
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There is far less of a track record here, so anything said should be taken with a grain or two of salt. Also, Sergei shot an unrealistic 18.4% so we should dock him about three goals when looking for comparisons. Doing so would put his ppg at .46 rather than .52. Lastly, like Anrdei...
Hard Luck & Horseshoes
May 09, 2008 by
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Here is a list of players whose opponents shot at least 4% better than his team did while he was on the ice:I pulled out anyone who played less than 40 games, anyone who played under 8 minutes and anyone whose name I'd never seen before. Some of these guys just aren't very...
The Sean Avery of the Blogosphere
May 09, 2008 by
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I read a lot of hockey blogs. If you do the same, you'll eventually become familiar with some of the commenters who frequent multiple blogs. One regular commenter at the Battle of Ontario was the most negative Sens fan I'd ever seen. There would be post after post after post...
1st 3rd vs. last 2 3rds
May 08, 2008 by
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A few things happened with the Canadiens about 1/3 of the way through the season. The biggest thing was a changing of the guard on the top line - it was early December when Koivu/Higgins/Ryder gave way to Plekanec/AKostitsyn/Kovalev for the top role. This is also when Ryder first became...
UFA Cup Half Empty
May 07, 2008 by
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Gainey says:"I think that we want to play a fast game. We don't want to be vulnerable to (tough play). We have big guys. Perhaps we can be bigger and more rugged, but I think our philosophy is: We're quick, we're exciting, we're on the attack, we play to score...
Projecting Higgins
May 06, 2008 by
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Chris Higgins got off to a relatively slow start. Not many guys that produced at his level at 22-24 scored as little as he did in the AHL at 20 (.72ppg, or .32ppg NHLE). His 21 y.o. AHL season was even worse (.67ppg, .29ppg NHLE), but that happened in the 2004-05 lockout year when...
Projecting A. Kostitsyn
May 05, 2008 by
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An ideal comparison would be a recent Eurpoean (preferably Eastern) top 10 pick who started out in the NHL at 21/22 and there just aren't many guys like that. The lockout year further muddied waters.Kostitsyn was in the AHL for his 20 y.o. season, AHL/NHL at 21 (I averaged his...
Projecting Plekanec
May 05, 2008 by
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We're looking at a relatively young team. It looks like there are more names trending up (Price, Plekanec, Kostitsyns, Higgins, Komisarek, Gorges, Latendresse) than trending down (Koivu, Kovalev, Dandenault, Hamrlik). I'm going to do a series of posts in an effort to project...
Season Ending Bullets
May 04, 2008 by
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- Bloody goalposts. Three more last night. The series count was 7-1 (not counting the one by Prospal in g4 that landed on Upshall's stick for a goal). "In a playoff series between closely matched teams, the team that hits less iron usually wins."- In 2006, "After...
Some Numbers
May 02, 2008 by
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Even Strength (click for a clearer view):- On the whole, these numbers look pretty damn fine for such a mediocre EV team in the regular season. A lot of that is because Boston and Philly are not exactly powerhouses.- One of these days, everyone is going to realize that Kovalev just...
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