Around the NHL XIV: Off Season/New Season Edition

[*Bob Richards*]

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[Infinitum Vitae*]

Hockey where are you

 

[PlamsUnlimited]

Wang getting sued

 

[Steve Kournianos]

Wang getting sued

Never gets old.

 

[Ail]

Wang getting sued

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/s...-reneging-on-deal-to-sell-islanders.html?_r=0

Pretty much a nothing suit. Bitter rich people using legal BS to try and screw each other. Comical.

Never gets old.

Best movie.

 

[silverfish]

LOL SATHER.

LOL

Dream on, JD. Dream on

 

[*Bob Richards*]

Love JD. I really want to see Slats do it with his usual cigar too.

 

[Raspewtin]

http://instagram.com/p/r2P8cJKliI/

LOL

 

[silverfish]

http://instagram.com/p/r2P8cJKliI/

LOL

Knew it was Avery's before I even clicked the link

Too bad Bettman has already done his. Would love to see Tortorella accept Avery's challenge.

 

[SA16]

Avery lol

 

[AHB*]

BREAKING NEWS: Charles Wang has agreed to sell the #Isles to John Ledecky, former co-owner of the Capitals, and investor Scott Malkin.
— Arthur Staple (@StapeNewsday) August 19, 2014

We shall see..

 

[Raspewtin]

Ugh.

The Piles are actually moving in the right direction.

 

[Steve Kournianos]

Kovalev*spoke with Phillipe Lehoux of RDS and was asked about the electrifying Habs star defenseman.*SBN’s Habs Eyes On The Prize dutifully shared what the Russian had to say.
“I’m not saying he isn’t a good hockey player, but he’s not the guy,” Kovalev said. “He’s a risky defenseman, and he’s a wide open defenseman. What I’m saying is that he can give up five goals and score five goals, and the score’s still going to be zero-zero. So if for example he saves five goals and scores five goals, that’s a different style of hockey. So I always compare him with Brian Leetch, because he wants to play the same kind of style, and be more offensive. He’s not making the right decisions. He’s making the risky plays, he’s not making the right decisions sometimes. He just plays like we used to play on the street.

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/...ubban-to-leetch-says-he-isnt-worth-the-money/

Kovalev has a right to talk. I mean, who was more responsible with the puck than he was?

Kovalev neeeeeeeever made "risky" plays, right?

 

[silverfish]

Embrace #Fancystats

Goodbye, ExtraSkater. You will be missed.

 

[Vidic15*]

http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/...ubban-to-leetch-says-he-isnt-worth-the-money/

Kovalev has a right to talk. I mean, who was more responsible with the puck than he was?

Kovalev neeeeeeeever made "risky" plays, right?

Kovalev wasnt a defenseman.

 

[Ail]

Embrace #Fancystats

Goodbye, ExtraSkater. You will be missed.

Seems like the NHL is killing two birds with one stone. The more prominent advanced metrics become, the more likely fans are to visit advanced metrics sites and not NHL.com. Hire all the advanced metrics gurus or have your owners hire them and close down their sites. Problem solved.

 

[Paulie Walnutz]

LOL SATHER.

LOL

Dream on, JD. Dream on

Can you imagine if Columbus' boards is as hostile as ours? We'd all be burning JD at the stakes. "**** that stupid challenge sign Johansen!"

 

[Zil]

Embrace #Fancystats

Goodbye, ExtraSkater. You will be missed.

I'm pretty confident the Rangers are ignoring this stuff and I'm pretty confident it's going to burn them in the end.

 

[Cassano]

Funny how nobody was on the Corsi/Fenwick bandwagon a season ago. Now it seems everyone and their mother uses it.

 

[JohnC]

Funny how nobody was on the Corsi/Fenwick bandwagon a season ago. Now it seems everyone and their mother uses it.

You'll have to forgive some people if they didn't care when people like Kershaw were trying to convince us of outrageous things like Clarkson being better than Callahan because of corsi/fenwick. I'd say Kershaw looks mighty dumb in that argument now

 

[YoSoyLalo]

I'm pretty confident the Rangers are ignoring this stuff and I'm pretty confident it's going to burn them in the end.

Pretty sure AV has been using them for a couple years, now.

 

[Ail]

You'll have to forgive some people if they didn't care when people like Kershaw were trying to convince us of outrageous things like Clarkson being better than Callahan because of corsi/fenwick. I'd say Kershaw looks mighty dumb in that argument now

It was slow to take off because a lot of ridiculous conclusions were being drawn, and the math was unfairly getting the blame because some people couldn't look at the bigger picture. Now that advanced metrics are starting to draw reasonable conclusions even among more casual fans, it is being accepted more readily.

I dont blame anyone for being skeptical as recently as the beginning of last season. I definitely was.

 

[Zil]

Pretty sure AV has been using them for a couple years, now.

I don't think the front office signs Tanner Glass or lets Stralman walk in favor of Dan Boyle if they're using advanced metrics.

 

[BlueshirtBlitz]

I don't think the front office signs Tanner Glass or lets Stralman walk in favor of Dan Boyle if they're using advanced metrics.

I think there is probably a split somewhere in management, but I think the non-metrics folks have more say.

Letting Stralman go, signing Glass? Not great.

Nabbing Stempniak for so cheap? Very good.

Then you have the issue of signing Brass for 5 years while signing Zuke for 1. There's definitely been a lot of head-scratching moments for those who want a more statistically inclined FO.

Also, JohnC nails it. When some people are flipping out on the team for letting John Mitchell of all ****ing players sign somewhere else, it was rough to embrace Corsi as our lord and savior. Having guys like BlueBlooded and -31- and you who always leave legitimate analysis instead of knee-jerk crying has gone a long way in making a lot of us look at metrics more seriously, IMO.

I'd say Mint, too, but I think Mint's made more enemies than friends because of his Klein posts .

 

[BlueshirtBlitz]

Also just saw this started because the Leafs hired the extra skater guy. That sucks.

What do we use now? Behindthenet?