Playoffs! Playoffs?

[87turbobuick]

Tocchet lost his fire when he got slapped by the NHL for gambling.

Also convicted in court proceedings.

 

[MIGs Dog]

Anyone else notice that the "Fire Tocchet" and "Playoff" thread have flip flopped? It's almost as if the playoffs and Tocchet's future are interlinked.

 

[Jakey53]

It’s pretty common knowledge that Barroway was leveraged to the hilt when he bought out the original IA group. Why do you think he only was left with a 5% stake in the team after Meruelo came in?? That was all the equity he had in it. Aside from the massive loan debt he had to pay off, he was losing millions on top of it running the team.

Barroway is a rich guy. But not rich enough to continue burning through tens of millions annually propping up the franchise. That’s why six months after he bought out IA he was looking for a “minority” investor to drop $200-250 million into the team for a minor stake (ie no control). Nobody in their right mind would drop that much cash into something without a say into it.

If Meruelo had not come along when he did the odds were extremely high Barroway would have been forced to sell the team to either OVG (Seattle) or Tillman Fertitta (Houston).

If you don’t want to believe that then that’s your problem. Most everyone here in F40 knows what the deal was..

Getting back to Tocchet. Look at who Kessel had to play with in Pittsburgh and look who he has now. You going to try convincing me (or anyone) the Penguin’s forward group is inferior to ours?? The “Kessel Whisperer” thing was something hyped up by the media.

Tocchet came to Arizona because he wanted another chance to be a head coach. He could have stayed in a comfortable spot in Pittsburgh, but he didn’t. He went after the position and gave Chayka a full on presentation on what he wanted to do. He may still end up being a bust, but to make some lame drive by chirp that he’s had no fire since the gambling thing a decade ago is a load of manure.

I and a few others on F40 have said from day 1 that the NHL will not leave Phoenix and it became pretty obvious that the NHL was not going to leave Phoenix, so selling to Seattle or Houston were not in the cards. If Meruelo didn't buy the Coyotes, the NHL would have found someone else. The NHL wants the franchise money and still do.

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

I made a spreadsheet showing the rest of the season for the wild card contenders. Here's the first couple of weeks. I was right about last night at least. My predictions show Calgary comfortably in 3rd. The wild cards may come down to tie breakers.

 

[TheLegend]

I and a few others on F40 have said from day 1 that the NHL will not leave Phoenix and it became pretty obvious that the NHL was not going to leave Phoenix, so selling to Seattle or Houston were not in the cards. If Meruelo didn't buy the Coyotes, the NHL would have found someone else. The NHL wants the franchise money and still do.

There's only so many names in Bettman's rolodex.

 

[MIGs Dog]

There's only so many names in Bettman's rolodex.

Billionaires that don't buy sports teams are wasting their fortune and very bad humans.

 

[MIGs Dog]

I made a spreadsheet showing the rest of the season for the wild card contenders. Here's the first couple of weeks. I was right about last night at least. My predictions show Calgary comfortably in 3rd. The wild cards may come down to tie breakers.

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what're the points columns? your predictions?

 

[CoyoteDave]

I am not in the locker room, but there has been nothing that I have seen publicly that leads me to believe that Tocchet has any fire. H..., I wish he was reading this and came to my front door to kick my a.. At least then, I would see some emotion. At what point does someone get mad and do something. I realize some personalities just don't show it, but is that who we want leading the Coyotes?

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

what're the points columns? your predictions?

Points are the expected outcome of the game. I put the whole thing in the original post. One hell of a parlay.

 

[rt]

Points are the expected outcome of the game. I put the whole thing in the original post. One hell of a parlay.

Expected outcomes just being whichever team has the highest cumulative P% ?

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

Expected outcomes just being whichever team has the highest cumulative P% ?

Just who I think will win, lose and/or get the loser point. All gut feeling and I have plenty of that (gut).

 

[rt]

Just who I think will win, lose and/or get the loser point. All gut feeling and I have plenty of that (gut).

It might be interesting to do the same thing but based on current or projected cumulative P%. Did you post the sheet or just an image of it?

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

It's just an image. Can I upload a spreadsheet?

 

[MIGs Dog]

It's just an image. Can I upload a spreadsheet?

you could drop it in google docs.

 

[rt]

It's just an image. Can I upload a spreadsheet?

I dunno. I wish you could. Haha. I’d like to steal your work and redo it with P% driving the game outcomes the rest of the way.

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

you could drop it in google docs.

I can try that this evening when I get home from work.

 

[Name Nameless]

Virtually every result last night went against the Coyotes, if not all of them. Almost like not controlling your own fate shouldn't been considered "glass half full"?

The other results has been decent, as in not all of them were bad.

The other teams has played a lot of those games in hand and the Coyote-odds has actually improved a little over the last week. I really don't think it makes sense to feel the world hates the Coyotes based on this.

Now, Vancouver. That's a 21%-points swing from a regulation loss to a regulation win. Absolutely stunning.

In other words, win this.

 

[SniperHF]

I can try that this evening when I get home from work.

You can copy paste excel cells straight into HF and they'll turn into a table.

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

You can copy paste excel cells straight into HF and they'll turn into a table.

Cool. Here it is. I'll try the google docs thing still when I get home. It updates the totals at the bottom.

Date	Calgary	Pts	Vancouver	Pts	Nashville	Pts	Winnipeg	Pts	Arizona	Pts	Minnesota	Pts
3-Mar-20					@MIN	0	BUF	2			NSH	2
4-Mar-20	CBJ	2	ARI	0					@Van	2
5-Mar-20					DAL	2					@SJS	2
6-Mar-20	ARI	1	COL	0			VGK	0	@cgy	2
7-Mar-20					@DAL	0					@LAK	2
8-Mar-20	VGK	0	CBJ	2							@Ana	2
9-Mar-20							ARI	2	@WPG	1
10-Mar-20			NYI	1	@mtl	2
11-Mar-20							@EDM	0
12-Mar-20	NYI	2	@Ari	0	@TOR	0			VAN	2	VGK	0
13-Mar-20			@COL	0
14-Mar-20	WPG	2			@CBJ	2	@cgy	0	NYR	0	@PHI	0
15-Mar-20			WPG	2	@MIN	1	@Van	1			NSH	2
16-Mar-20	@NYR	1							DAL	0
17-Mar-20	@NYI	0					FLA	2			CHI	2
18-Mar-20			TBL	0					VGK	0
19-Mar-20	@NJD	2			COL	0					@CHI	1
20-Mar-20			@Ana	2			MIN	2	DET	2	@WPG	0
21-Mar-20	TBL	0	@LAK	1	PHI	0
22-Mar-20					@CHI	2	@DAL	0	@LAK	2
23-Mar-20	SJS	2	@VGK	0							COL	0
24-Mar-20					WPG	2	@NSH	1
25-Mar-20	ANA	2	SJS	2					@VGK	1
26-Mar-20					LAK	2					NJD	2
27-Mar-20	@Van	2	CGY	0			COL	0
28-Mar-20			ANA	2	@Ari	0			NSH	2	BUF	2
29-Mar-20					@COL	0	VGK	2	@SJS	1	@STL	0
30-Mar-20			@DAL	0
31-Mar-20	WPG	2					@cgy	0	@COL	0	@NYI	1
1-Apr-20					MTL	2
2-Apr-20	VGK	0	@Ari	1	@PHI	0	@COL	1	VAN	2	@Wsh	0
3-Apr-20
4-Apr-20	EDM	0	VGK	2	MIN	2	@Ari	2	WPG	1	@NSH	0
		93		89		89		87		90		89

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[SniperHF]

You also just @ ed everyone with those usernames

 

[Prarievarg]

You also just @ ed everyone with those usernames

Good to know (at)TOR is available

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

Oops



Replace the "https:##" with "https://
https:##docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1muZoBi-R_RJuzH1te7dkuuqHBV2dB6ISnr3Z4oZHIUo/edit#gid=1019950950

 

[rt]

Still 10th worst P% in NHL. All of these things just seem to happen to us and all around us. The one constant is that no matter what, we seem to just always be the 10th worst team in the NHL. It’s the one thing we can depend on. No matter what happens, there will be only nine teams in the league worse than us. This will never change and will always be true.

Huge win tonight. So...yep...still 10th worst P% in the NHL.

 

[Prarievarg]

According to The Athletics standings projections the Coyotes will finish with 90.5 points, 0.1 points outside the last playoff spot.

 

[Jakey53]

There's only so many names in Bettman's rolodex.

It only takes one, and he found him. End of story.