Post-Game Talk: Yeah baby

[PuckDynasty]

Yeah, its pretty much a proven fact (not just in hockey) that travelling one way has a much worse effect on performance than the other.

And the "first game back after a road trip" syndrome is also a real thing. I don't know why, it just is.

Where is this factual information you speak of? It's an excuse to use when they aren't playing well. What's that they say on ESPN, it's that way when we edit it that way. When a team loses the first game after a road trip, it's blamed on the travel. When they play well, it's the home cooking. This isn't the playoffs of the old days with no days in between. The Wings will have almost 3 full days off. If they can't find the motivation to skate hard, it's not about the travel schedule or jet lag.

 

[ap3x]

In regard to the first one, see here

[...] Is one direction better than the other?

Yes, west is best, east is a beast. Generally speaking, people find that travelling east produces the worst jet lag. This is because travellers find themselves trying to get to sleep when their bodies are actually waking up and are then forced to get up at what feels like the middle of the night. To put it another way, we are better at dealing with a longer day than a shorter one. Studies have found that it takes a full day to recover from each time zone one travels through. [...]

and here

[...] Traveling west is easier

Your body clock has an innate tendency to run slightly longer than 24 hours, Jain says. Each morning, your body compensates for this slight discrepancy by contracting your internal clock to synchronize with the 24-hour sun cycle. When you travel west, you gain several hours, so your day is extended and your body gets the extra time it naturally wants. But when you travel east, your day is shortened; that makes it harder to adjust, Jain says, because your body has to cut its natural cycle even further.

Studies suggest that you can push your body clock back about two hours per day, meaning that you can adjust from Washington time to Colorado time in a single day, but you can move your body clock forward (as when you travel from California to Washington) only by about an hour to an hour and a half per day, Jain says. [...]

 

[hyduK]

In regard to the first one, see here



and here

Yeah, it's definitely a thing.

that said, 3 days in between games really should make it a non-issue.

 

[ap3x]

Yeah, I guess so. It was rather generally speaking.

 

[PuckDynasty]

I'm not saying jet lag is not a real thing, but the "teams coming home from a road trip always play horribly" is somehow scientific fact. If there are statistics to prove it, I'd like to see them. But I don't think it's any thing more than a talking point for analysts. I also don't think that the Wings didn't get shout out on Thursday because Ken Daniels brought it up to break the "jinx".

 

[Rzombo4 prez]

I got to check this one out in the flesh with my brother. It was without question the best/worst game I have ever seen from a player. Pav looked absolutely awful for 98% of the game. At one point it looked like he had a half-step on the defender for a loose puck in the corner and just stopped at the hash mark and let Helm go into the corner. He had one shift where he literally took a total of five strides during the shift. You could really tell that something was off physically with him. Yet like all great players, he found a way to get it done in the end.

This was also the most bizarre NHL game I have ever watched. It felt like an ECHL game on steroids. The stadium was 60% full at best. I think 80% of the crowd was pulling for the Wings and went nuts in OT. For half of the game I questioned whether they even sold tickets behind one of the two nets.

 

[ap3x]

Awful for 98 % of the game, yet scoring one and setting up two further goals of his team* - incl. the GWG? Wow, not bad. Don't you think you're exaggerating a little bit here?

 

[HIFE]

I got to check this one out in the flesh with my brother. It was without question the best/worst game I have ever seen from a player. Pav looked absolutely awful for 98% of the game. At one point it looked like he had a half-step on the defender for a loose puck in the corner and just stopped at the hash mark and let Helm go into the corner. He had one shift where he literally took a total of five strides during the shift. You could really tell that something was off physically with him. Yet like all great players, he found a way to get it done in the end.

This was also the most bizarre NHL game I have ever watched. It felt like an ECHL game on steroids. The stadium was 60% full at best. I think 80% of the crowd was pulling for the Wings and went nuts in OT. For half of the game I questioned whether they even sold tickets behind one of the two nets.

Thanks for the description, that sounded like a strange one to be at.

For me it was best/worst as a team. The game was an emotional rollercoaster, for some reason the most low I've felt and then shocked of the season. Into the 3rd I was embarrassed, ashamed, so down on the Wings. We were getting OWNED by Phoenix in every way possible. I had those depressing thoughts of how decrepit and weak the Wings are...then bam 2 PP goals and win it in OT. I was an idiot for losing respect for the team especially our veterans. It was a dirty road win they endured a beating for 2 1/2 periods then stole 2 points. They say in sports you never want to get too high or too low, may be that's true also for fans.

 

[Henkka]

Thanks for the description, that sounded like a strange one to be at.

For me it was best/worst as a team. The game was an emotional rollercoaster, for some reason the most low I've felt and then shocked of the season. Into the 3rd I was embarrassed, ashamed, so down on the Wings. We were getting OWNED by Phoenix in every way possible. I had those depressing thoughts of how decrepit and weak the Wings are...then bam 2 PP goals and win it in OT. I was an idiot for losing respect for the team especially our veterans. It was a dirty road win they endured a beating for 2 1/2 periods then stole 2 points. They say in sports you never want to get too high or too low, may be that's true also for fans.

Game lasts for 60 minutes. We have learned that lesson many times and now it was Coyotes time to get a lesson.