MindzEye
Wayward Ditch Pig
Never would have thought of him at all
Nobody ever did...but he was PPG almost every year and the Stanley Cup seemed to follow him around.
Never would have thought of him at all
Johnsson looking really good.
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ME, Good point about NHL not really changing. Maybe the money wasn't there. Hockey is still a niche sport (ice and skates will do that) but has gotten a boost as broadcasters need as much live content as possible.
Pretty bad period for the Leafs.
I'm sure zeke will come up with some qualcompCFhighdangerBlob stat to show that we played well, though.
Gardiner is such an idiot.
pretty dominant game from the leafs. I'm sure some will say it was all our goalie tho.
Was it ever. Just got in here. How much time is Johnsson getting? How is he looking?
What? So until the stats are absolutely perfect they're useless? Unless you have F1 brakes in your car, what's the point in using the brake pedal at all? The irony in using the word logic in your statement and then puking this out isn't lost on me.
Here's the thing we have about the statistics we have. They're facts. If 2 teams play a game and team A out chances team B 20-10, that's a fact. You can then attempt to work to provide context if you disagree with what that fact is saying, but no amount of eye test is going to change that fact. Those facts might not tell the entire story but they tell an entirely unbiased story that can be easily compared with every other story played by every other team for the sake of unbiased comparison.
They tell a vastly superior story than any eye test method ever has. It should be extremely instructive to you that all of the top teams in the NHL have well developed analytics departments, and the guys working in those departments right now are the same guys who developed the tools we use here when discussing the game. What teams have proprietary would absolutely be more detailed and better than we have publicly, but this isn't 2012 anymore, publicly available analytics are extremely good now.
To be blunt, the vast majority of hockey fans don't know what is and isn't important on the ice, nor are they unbiased enough to take any knowledge they've actually developed and apply it in comparison to other teams. There's a reason that the game has changed so much in the last 7 years and it's because teams that have adopted analytic based approaches have dominated the league and have changed the way GM's team build.
Hockey thought literally did not advanced between the 50's and the 00's. The same things that were important to GM's and coaches in the 50's, were important to coaches and GM's 15 years ago. That's the biggest indictment of the "eye test" I think we could possibly point out, that aside from equipment advancements and a few rudimentary changes in playing style (the butterfly for example was a monstrously obvious improvement), what made a winning hockey team in 1950 was thought to be timeless knowledge that was still used in 2005. barely more than 10 years later and teams utilizing better methods of analysis eat that old timey shit for lunch.
pretty dominant game from the leafs. I'm sure some will say it was all our goalie tho.
Mac hasn't had to do much tonight. Leafs have carried play after a bad first.
Keep putting words in my mouth though.