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The New Division

SENSible said:
http://blogs.edmontonjournal.com/20...ast-season-hockey-analytics-expert-concludes/

The Oiler bashes on this forum should love this article.

Not so sure they'll love the other conclusions the advanced stats lead to with regards to our two franchises though.
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Advanced stats in hockey are for fools. The joker referenced in the article is never going to be the Bill James of hockey because such a thing cannot exist. Baseball is made up of independent events. Hockey is made up of dependent events. It's a simple concept that goes over the heads of the advanced stats fools.

A person who brings advanced stats into an argument is a person who has lost the argument.
 
The interesting conclusion the stats guy arrived at in relation to our teams is that the Leafs benefitted far more from their artificially high shooting % than the Sens did from their artificially high SV%.

With the skill coming back into the Sens lineup and the quality of goaltending they should get from Andersson and Lehner it looks like the Sens should be taking a big step forward this season.

The Leafs should get similar goaltending from Reimer/Bernier combo to what they had last year, but will be unlikely to maintain their shooting % and thus will likely see a drop in their GF along with the standings.
 
TheMightyIgor said:
Advanced stats in hockey are for fools. The joker referenced in the article is never going to be the Bill James of hockey because such a thing cannot exist. Baseball is made up of independent events. Hockey is made up of dependent events. It's a simple concept that goes over the heads of the advanced stats fools.

A person who brings advanced stats into an argument is a person who has lost the argument.
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Careful here, igor. You've just come into the temple of advanced stats worship and pissed on the floor. These drones are gonna be pretty upset. They might declare hockey jihad on you.
 
You said critical times. We don't get to game 7 unless he's spectacular in game 5 and 6.
As I said, the whole team sucked for the final 10 minutes, including the goalie.
 
Good thing we have 2 young goalies then, eh?
Plus as long as we don't surround him with pussies like you guys did with Lalime, 925 in the playoffs should be just fine.
 
TimHorton said:
Good thing we have 2 young goalies then, eh?
Plus as long as we don't surround him with pussies like you guys did with Lalime, 925 in the playoffs should be just fine.
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Bernier is an excellent insurance policy. The Leafs should get solid goaltending this season. Reimer did look a little Lalime like in his first playoff attempt, but he deserves more than one chance before we stick him with that comparison.

The Sens played like pussies vs the Leafs in the playoffs because their coach was a fool. If Chara had given Roberts the beat down he richly deserved, the results would have been completely different.

I'd love to see the teams match up now with PM in charge.
 
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theREALkoreaboy said:
Those two DID regress. And at critical times in the playoffs no less.
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They did?

James Reimer

RegSeas: 33gms, .924sv%
Playoffs: 7gms, .923sv%
ElimGms: 3gms, .902sv%


Nazem Kadri

RegSeas: 48gms, 0.92ppg
Playoffs: 7gms, 0.57ppg
ElimGms: 3gms, 1.00ppg

is this the "regression" you think we should be worried about?



what do you call this, then?

Craig Anderson

RegSeas: 24gms, .941sv%
Playoffs: 10gms, .918sv%
ElimGms: 1gms, .818sv%
 
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