GDT: Canes @ Slugs 11/27 7:00

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

The Canes start a 2 game New York road trip in Buffalo. The Slugs are winless in their last 6 and have only scored 7 goals in that stretch, dropping them behind the Canes in goals per game. It also dropped them into a tie with Columbus for last in the conference. Statistically, the teams are pretty even, except for the Slugs much better power play.

After busting out for 4 goals, Peters will probably ice the same lineup as Wednesday. No reason to tinker with success, right?

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Re: GDT: Canes @ Slugs 11/26 7:00

Gotta hate these types of games.

Plus it already happened.....11/26?

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TheBigKahuna said:

Plus it already happened.....11/26?

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Blame it on still being jet lagged and a lack of sleep.

I would have blamed it on whiskey....but whatever works! ; )

TheBigKahuna said:

I would have blamed it on whiskey....but whatever works! ; )

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No whiskey, wine. Since arriving in Portland on Wednesday afternoon, we're at 23 bottles

andyt said:

No whiskey, wine. Since arriving in Portland on Wednesday afternoon, we're at 23 bottles

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omg *envy* enjoy!

andyt said:

No whiskey, wine. Since arriving in Portland on Wednesday afternoon, we're at 23 bottles

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We'll have to compare notes sometime. I was on a trip to Milan once (with my wife's family) that went around that number in 24 hours. With constant eating.

Cam simply HAS to stop those.

I don't know if it was nerves but poor Rasky looked really nervous during the 1st intermission on FSS

Did Tripp really just say Cam wasn't having a good game?

TheBigKahuna said:

Cam simply HAS to stop those.

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Apparently Peters agrees.

Turned that garbage off after the 4th goal. Pathetic. Just pathetic.

"I like our team, I like where we're going"

Helluva shot by Eichel though.

TheBigKahuna said:

Turned that garbage off after the 4th goal. Pathetic. Just pathetic.

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I had it on, on the side of me while I was playing a pc game with my son. We soon lost interest. In the game. The hockey one.

A team shooting percentage of 3.6% and collective goalie save percentage of 0.810. Those low numbers are not going to win many games, or even come close, as was the case with this one.

Just how bad is this team? Well, in the spirit of a picture being worth a thousand words, consider these two graphic exhibits.

Fancy stats includes a measure of "luck", or some say "skill", called PDO, which is basically the sum of a team's shooting percentage and save percentage.

So, here's a graphic that charts save percentage on the x-axis (horizontal) and shooting percentage on the y-axis (vertical). High and right is good, low and left is bad. Color of the circle is related to PDO itself, with red being low and blue being high.



Note we are holding down the lower-left "Unlucky"/"Suck" corner while our next opponent is all alone up in that upper-right corner.

And, as a measure of where this team stands on the shaky ground compared with recent Carolina teams, here's another graphic exhibit.



Same parameters, but only Carolina teams from the '05-'06 season onward on this one.

Again, we suck...or is it just "unlucky"?

Note the save percentage is not that different between the Stanley Cup team and our current product. Same mediocre number there.

But the shooting percentage is nearly doubled by the championship team. And therein lies the problem.