TheBigKahuna
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Hamilton living up to his midseason starter reputation.
GDT: Canes @ Senators 1/6 1:00
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And yet they won. Offense is nice, especially when you get it from your D and your depth. 4 in a row.
Yeah .... and I'm serious here ... better late than never. This team needs Dougie to chip in and he's started to do that.
HeyKurtz
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Fox Sports Go (and most of the other streaming apps, such as NBC Sports) does that on a regular basis with my Spectrum account. I guess they just want reauthorization that you're still a subscriber every so often.
He also said in the post game interviews that he’s been playing with an injury since November.
TheBigKahuna
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Yeah, he played through it. Kudos to him.
ThinIce
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In the post-game interview, Willy said something about the puck going off his "junk" - no further comment needed!
StormChaserBH
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Like I put it when I saw the replay, we won by 2, 5-4 ... :couch
Could have been wrist/hand related. He took a nasty slash over the glove in a home game back in November and now that I think about it Hamilton hasn't really been ripping full shots from distance all that much.
TheBigKahuna
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Well, it's no accident that the 4th line looked so frisky. That's the line featuring two guys who haven't been through he schedule wringer with the rest of the guys since Christmas. Yeah, I know they've been playing in the A, but the big club has played 9 times since the Christmas break. That's a bunch of hockey. And for the rookies, this is their first time through that kind of grind at this level. That's tough to power through and it's one reason I'm concerned about the club not carrying any depth on this road trip. There's more than one guy in heavy rotation who could use a night off.
Well, it's no accident that the 4th line looked so frisky. That's the line featuring two guys who haven't been through he schedule wringer with the rest of the guys since Christmas. Yeah, I know they've been playing in the A, but the big club has played 9 times since the Christmas break. That's a bunch of hockey. And for the rookies, this is their first time through that kind of grind at this level. That's tough to power through and it's one reason I'm concerned about the club not carrying any depth on this road trip. There's more than one guy in heavy rotation who could use a night off.
HurryCanes
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Was driving back from Greenville (NC) yesterday and had to listen to the Sirius, Senators feed, on the radio. Not familiar with their play by play guy but he sure did go out of his way to throw shade on the canes on multiple occasions. Just seemed a little snotty and looked down his nose towards us rubes. Amongst other things just kept going on and on about how essentially we are "cooking the books" with our statistics (hits, takeaways, etc). Personally, I could care less and who knows if it's true but it just seemed to be a pattern from this dude. Hope they finish DFL and watch Hughes head on over to another team having given up that pick.
Punzil
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The other team would the the Avalanche. At least it isn't Washington or Pittsburgh.
FWIW, that's a pretty common theme from Canadian and other traditional markets. The new gen stats weenies dispute that line of thinking, but let's face it ... the people pushing that angle regarding the Canes are the same people who rail against the advanced stats guys, so ... whatever.
StormChaserBH
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Easy way to shut up that line of thinking is the home/away splits, adjusting for whatever average difference teams have. "Easy" meaning someone could do it with available data, not that I'm gonna do it :couch
That game against Toronto where we had 29 SOG in the first period, the whole Leafs board here on FI was whining along those same lines about home cooking on the shots, counting by 2, etc.., but their own Athletic reporter went back and rewatched the first period and counted 28 himself, so pththththththtllllllll......
Even easier if you subscribe to the Athletic, as there's at least one article from the past month that defends Carolina's shots count. NOT written by our beat writer, so ... from a neutral.
I just wish some of the stat geeks would add a little bit of "human eye" to their analysis. Metrics provide clues not answers and work together with what you actually see. When they tout our Corsi and bad luck given the numbers, but then you watch a game and see the quality of many shots and our lack of finishers---then it becomes interesting.
Would love to see some work that combines the two.
Would love to see some work that combines the two.