GDT: Game 73: Red Wings at canes 7:30 pm et 3/28/24 (ESPN+, BSD)

[MIKELGRW]

10 games left, Let's Go Boys!

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[jkutswings]

May this be the game where everybody predicts a loss, but Detroit somehow finds a way to win.

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Hopefully this time we get more than 12 shots!

 

[ricky0034]

May this be the game where everybody predicts a loss, but Detroit somehow finds a way to win.

Carolina did just lose to both Washington and Pittsburgh in the past week

 

[RedWingzz]

I predict an 26-0 win

 

[Gniwder]

L

 

[dalem177]

L

 

[RED WINGS STOMP]

We have generally really struggled to generate offense on these guys. Need to turn that around to have a chance.

 

[The Flying Octopus]

Carolina did just lose to both Washington and Pittsburgh in the past week

and they wont lose to this poor squad

 

[Gniwder]

We have generally really struggled to generate offense on these guys. Need to turn that around to have a chance.

Generally struggled with any faster team. Ed is in but Walman is out so that's a wash. The forwards are as slow as ever. DUmp and chase and trying to slow down the pace of the game won't work, Fester better come up with a new game plan, or the D will be pitchforking pucks out of the zone while Reimer (or Lyon) gets peppered with shots. Ghost will have to be ready for the hard forechecking, because we know Maatta isn't moving the puck.

I've mentally prepared myself for the L.

 

[theYman]

Will Sprong be in? It's mind-boggling that he's sat for 3 games. Switch him with Fabbri right now.

 

[LarKing]

Will Sprong be in? It's mind-boggling that he's sat for 3 games. Switch him with Fabbri right now.

Yeah nothing like sitting your best bottom six scorer when you're struggling to score

 

[DamonDRW]

I remember back in the day I criticized Babcock for his decisions. He was clear as glass as compared to Blashill and Lalonde.

 

[LongTimeDRWF]

I remember back in the day I criticized Babcock for his decisions. He was clear as glass as compared to Blashill and Lalonde.

These new wave couches rely heavily on their analytics with their own special twist, but their system relies on a lot of defense that the current crop is either not capable of providing or has not fully bought in.

When they play the game per the plan, they usually succeed

 

[wings95]

Wings need to win this one.

 

[GMR]

We have generally really struggled to generate offense on these guys. Need to turn that around to have a chance.

Washington scored 6 on Carolina last week. Philadelphia scored 5 on the Rangers the other night.

If we cannot keep pace with teams worse than us offensively, we don't deserve the playoffs.

 

[Baszie]

These new wave couches rely heavily on their analytics with their own special twist, but their system relies on a lot of defense that the current crop is either not capable of providing or has not fully bought in.

When they play the game per the plan, they usually succeed

Lalonde likes to single out Perron in his interviews as the great positive example. Perron has 39.4 5v5 on-ice expected goal % this season. That's top 10 worst in the league. The Perron-Larkin-Raymond played 177 minutes together with an expected goal % of 40.5.
The decisions Lalonde makes do not make much sense to me when I compare them to analytics.

 

[MIKELGRW]

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

The wings are playing like they did in December.

DeBrincat needs to step it up in a big way for the last 10 games. Seider needs to play better. Compher also needs to step up and play like he did in October/November.

The season is on the line. No more excuses. Start playing like you have guts.

 

[GreatGordie9]

Washington scored 5 on Carolina last week. Philadelphia scored 5 on the Rangers the other night.

If we cannot keep pace with teams worse than us offensively, we don't deserve the playoffs.

Actually the Caps won it 7-6 in a SO.

 

[GMR]

Actually the Caps won it 7-6 in a SO.

Thanks. I'll change it. Six goals on a supposedly defensive stalwart like Carolina. Washington just wants it more during this last few weeks.

 

[Ezekial]

Very excited to play against the Canes, Tampa, and Florida in this crucial stretch

Teams we totally have a lot of recent success against. Love it.

 

[Axel Sandy Pelikan]

and they wont lose to this poor squad

Seriously, what do you get out of bitching and pre-bitching?

 

[Axel Sandy Pelikan]

Lalonde likes to single out Perron in his interviews as the great positive example. Perron has 39.4 5v5 on-ice expected goal % this season. That's top 10 worst in the league. The Perron-Larkin-Raymond played 177 minutes together with an expected goal % of 40.5.
The decisions Lalonde makes do not make much sense to me when I compare them to analytics.

Honestly, I think that says as much about analytics as it does about Lalonde.

Analytics in a sport like hockey are a fools game. It doesn't have an admittedly massive but ultimiately finite number of possibilities like baseball does. The game stops every ten seconds in baseball for everyone to reset.

People misapply analytical statistics so horrifically in sports like basketball and hockey with constant action. It's why most of the teams that are like "WOOO YAY ANALYTICS" are usually kind of garbage. John Chayka tried building the Coyotes that way. It failed miserably. Jason Botterill... same way, same failure.

Hockey analytics are good for broad strokes kind of decisions, like yeah, the Wings probably shouldn't retain David Perron next year, but they're nigh worthless in the flow of a season.

 

[DamonDRW]

These new wave couches rely heavily on their analytics with their own special twist, but their system relies on a lot of defense that the current crop is either not capable of providing or has not fully bought in.

When they play the game per the plan, they usually succeed

That's why you need a talented coach who "feels it" not the nerd doing his math exercise. The latter is good but cannot replace talent.

Also modern analytics are still not well developed enough to rely upon n that completely.