seventieslord
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Agreed. Trivia time. Before Lemieux, who was the Pens career scoring leader?
who did he take the career points lead from? I'm going to guess Jean Pronovost. Syl Apps and Rick Kehoe would have been close too.
Agreed. Trivia time. Before Lemieux, who was the Pens career scoring leader?
You may be right. My source said if you only count Pens points it's Kehoe, but I'm lazy, on my phone, and am not in the mood to challenge your knowledge, especially on something so trivial.who did he take the career points lead from? I'm going to guess Jean Pronovost. Syl Apps and Rick Kehoe would have been close too.
You may be right. My source said if you only count Pens points it's Kehoe, but I'm lazy, on my phone, and am not in the mood to challenge your knowledge, especially on something so trivial.
So cool to see Vegas just running people over. What a damn story.....
Conn Smythe through 3 rounds:
MAF
Everyone else
Van I respect your opinion but having watched a lot of Vegas MAF is soooooooo far out in front of the Smythe race he probably still wins with a loss as long as he doesn't **** the bed, although like Sid in 2016 I think Ovechkin will get it if the Caps win, based on name recognition/career achievement etc.
He's facing the most shots per game against throughout the postseason. 34 shots a game. That is no small amount. And he's putting up one of the all time greatest postseason runs in the crease in modern history. You can yell stats all you want but he passes the eye test as well. MAF has carried Vegas on his back from the time he got back from injury and went into overdrive the past month+. Just because the won a hanful of games when he was out injured does not take away any of the impact he's had on the team's success.
Consider MAF is posting better numbers, for a far weaker team, then Tim Thomas did for Boston in 2011.
I'd wager MAF's run this postseason would rank top 5 or so in just about every postseason goalie study that @Hockey Outsider @quoipourquoi have done over the years. I'd be absolutely shocked if it were outside the top 10 in adjusted postseason save% or support neutral wins, among other studies. Of course we have one series left and a lot can change but right now the Smythe race isn't remotely close. It's a landslide for the Flower.
Top Round 1-3 Performances, 1968-2018
Error Rate vs. Expectation (EvE)
1. Jean-Sebastien Giguere, 2003 (39.6% on 496 shots)
2. John Davidson, 1979 (46.0% on 374 shots)
3. Rogie Vachon, 1969 (46.8% on 257 shots)
4. Richard Brodeur, 1982 (54.0% on 463 shots)
5. Patrick Roy, 1993 (54.3% on 492 shots)
6. Ilya Bryzgalov, 2006 (54.5% on 285 shots)
7. Tuukka Rask, 2013 (55.4% on 527 shots)
8. John Vanbiesbrouck, 1996 (55.6% on 616 shots)
9. Marc-Andre Fleury, 2018 (55.9% on 505 shots)
10. Arturs Irbe, 2002 (56.5% on 319 shots)
So far, the numbers are definitely there for him, but a lot of the above goaltenders didn’t stick the landing in Round 4.
Vachon won the Cup in 1969, as it was a three-round playoff. Roy won the Cup in 1993. The other 7 all went on to lose in Round 4 (or in Bryzgalov’s case, were out in Round 3).
If Fleury’s numbers hold, he’s in lofty statistical company:
Top Round 1-4 Performances, 1968-2017
Error Rate vs. Expectation (EvE)
1. Patrick Roy, 1993 (55.7% on 647 shots)
2. John Vanbiesbrouck, 1996 (58.8% on 735 shots)
3. John Davidson, 1979 (59.2% on 535 shots)
4. Jean-Sebastien Giguere, 2003 (59.3% on 697 shots)
5. Tuukka Rask, 2013 (59.4% on 761 shots)
6. Richard Brodeur, 1982 (60.4% on 594 shots)
7. Jonathan Quick, 2012 (60.4% on 538 shots)
8. Dominik Hasek, 1999 (60.7% on 587 shots)
9. Patrick Roy, 1986 (61.3% on 504 shots)
10. Patrick Roy, 2001 (62.6% on 622 shots)
How do you join this league, seems like a lot of fun
Wow they did it I never thought this Caps team would do it