Yukon Joe
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http://www.thehockeynews.com/news/a...e-it-and-how-much-does-it-take-to-win-the-cup
It's The Hockey News, so nothing great, but it's the dog days of summer so I thought I'd post it. The writers thesis is that you need top-end "star players" in order to win championships. So he attempts to rank players by a measurement called Game Score, and see who had the most high-end talent.
The article itself never really talks about the Jets, but the Top teams were ranked as follows:
Nashville (6 stars, 22 points)
Winnipeg (6 stars, 21 points)
Pittsburgh (7 stars, 20 points)
Washington (7 starts, 19 points)
Calgary (6 stars, 19 points)
Boston (4 stars, 19 points)
Chicago (5 stars, 18 points)
Tampa (4 stars, 15 points)
Ottawa (4 stars, 14 points)
St Louis (4 stars, 14 points)
Columbus (4 stars, 14 points)
And according to this guy's analysis, teams with 20+ points have gone on to the final 4 just under 50% of the time, and have wont the Cup ~15% of the time.
I'm not completely sold, but I was just struck at how the list of the top teams made sense and included all the suspected playoff teams, but Winnipeg was a big fat outlier having not made the playoffs but sitting in #2 spot.
Oh, for the curious our "star players" were Wheeler (1st Tier), Schiefele, Byfuglien (2nd Tier), Laine, Trouba (3rd Tier) and Ehlers (4th Tier)
It's The Hockey News, so nothing great, but it's the dog days of summer so I thought I'd post it. The writers thesis is that you need top-end "star players" in order to win championships. So he attempts to rank players by a measurement called Game Score, and see who had the most high-end talent.
The article itself never really talks about the Jets, but the Top teams were ranked as follows:
Nashville (6 stars, 22 points)
Winnipeg (6 stars, 21 points)
Pittsburgh (7 stars, 20 points)
Washington (7 starts, 19 points)
Calgary (6 stars, 19 points)
Boston (4 stars, 19 points)
Chicago (5 stars, 18 points)
Tampa (4 stars, 15 points)
Ottawa (4 stars, 14 points)
St Louis (4 stars, 14 points)
Columbus (4 stars, 14 points)
And according to this guy's analysis, teams with 20+ points have gone on to the final 4 just under 50% of the time, and have wont the Cup ~15% of the time.
I'm not completely sold, but I was just struck at how the list of the top teams made sense and included all the suspected playoff teams, but Winnipeg was a big fat outlier having not made the playoffs but sitting in #2 spot.
Oh, for the curious our "star players" were Wheeler (1st Tier), Schiefele, Byfuglien (2nd Tier), Laine, Trouba (3rd Tier) and Ehlers (4th Tier)