Sens of Anarchy
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Have you ever heard the phase, "it's better to be lucky than good"?Are you going continue bumping this when the PDO wave they're riding finally crashes?
Adding on to what you said but with a different take, how much of Vegas great start is them being on a 7 game home stand? Yes I know their first 2 games were on the road, however their 2nd road game was in Arizona and we all know how bad their season is going.Hopefully this post doesn't come off as ignorant, but I think there's a little truth to it:
What's Vegas' record at home? I was listening to Spittin' Chiclets today (Barstool hockey podcast w/ Ryan Whitney) and Whit was saying that a few teams have had an extra night in Vegas the night before the game... That plays a part in this, early game in the beginning of the season and a new team in Vegas, you do the math. The players from other teams are underestimating Vegas and taking advantage of the city. I don't think this is sustainable, but if it is I'll eat crow.
Chayka is loved because he is a young stat jock and last name shares the first letter of Corsi, the biggest littlest stat that is all the rage these days.
Have you ever heard the phase, "it's better to be lucky than good"?
Are either of these teams expected to be playoff contenders? Have either of these teams finished building their roster?
If not, why is it a big deal which of them were short term success in a single season? Isn't that completely missing the point?
I did but in fairness, Rutherford was terrible for a decade in Carolina. Even his ex owner laughed at him.HF boards laughed when Pens hired Rutherford also.
I keep reading this about Chayka, and yet his team's analytics blow.
He brings in Schenn, Hjalmarsson, Stepan, Connauton, and Cousins who are all mediocre stats guys.
I don't see it. Being young and signing Adam Clendening makes you a corsi fiend?
He came from an analytics company... Stathletes Inc. When all you need to be assistant GM/GM is a calculator, knowledge on almonds, and spend all your time learning how to be a good interview... Well you get the current Yotes.
Corsi is just a really unnecessarily complicated way to provide evidence your team is playing well/bad as a unit and winning. Hjalmarsson had a career 53% corsi on a good Hawks team, and was consider a solid D-man. On the Yotes he plummets to 42% with Yotes. Useless stat is useless.
It's not useless. It's just one part of the puzzle. There are more stats than corsi.
None of the analytics people I know think Hjalmarsson is particularly great. To blame Chayka's lack of success on only looking at a calculator is unfounded.
And saying the numbers are useless is just as silly as only looking at a calculator.
Everyone is always quick to jump on the failure of so called "analytics teams" like the Panthers and Coyotes, yet remain silent on Pittsburgh hiring a "nerd" right around the time they hired Sullivan, going on to win two Cups, or the success of Sutter's corsi-centric system in LA.
The truth is, nobody is an "analytics team." Every team uses them and no team uses them exclusively.
Well what else do I blame Chaya, he was brought in because he was a new wave analytics number jock. He has fallen flat on his face. Do I blame his non existent hockey IQ? I thought analytics trumped that?
They have Crosby, Malkin, and Letang. Even Blysma won a cup with them. Horrid example mate. They won a cup on team defense, their forwards back checked like crazy because Ruthford still doesnt know how to put together a good D. He was atrocious with Carolina especially when he attempted using numbers.
Your seriously going to use Sutter as an example. One of the more old school grind it out and play D coaches.
Do you even hockey? Or do you looks at numbers and player NHL Fail18 and pretend you hockey?
When Chayka was hired everyone on here thought the Yotes were a numbers team. Who are you trying to kid lol. Now that he failed worse than Maloney the Yotes are not a numbers team. Talk about cherry picking.