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Just way too much reaching for pucks. Not skating with enough desperation.

Eichel needs to start pushing the pace here

Wouldn't have been a penalty if that defender wasn't in his face

Why does Olofsson get a high stick but the defender doesn't get interference first?

Let's see some goals this period

Miller said McCabe was "gettin stitched up" so hopefully he'll return

Agreed. The game plan is not being executed. Instead it's just "lean on Ullmark" night.

The Red Wings are bad and have been bad for quite a while.

He's been on the top line all season...

Someone is remastering Titus and uploading it to YouTube

Yup.

I don't think that's the right read at all. I'm sure we wont see him until February or something, but they wouldn't have given him a locker room stall if he wasn't on track to be back this year. They just didn't see the need to declare LTIR until now, with Scandella hurt and a callup needed.

Gudbranson is, uh, not gud. But he also cost them nothing of value.

Well then.

If I'm understanding it right, the horizontal scale is the player's expected goals at even strength through the games played thus far. This may or may not match their actual goals scored at even strength so far, but that isn't indicated anywhere on the chart. The coloring is defined by the little key on the right, which is individual expected goals per 60 minutes played (in all usage situations I think?). So a player like JVR has a high expected goals per 60, and a high expected goals through each game played so far. Even though he isn't actually hitting those marks yet, it looks like his S% being in the toilet is something that theoretically shouldn't last?

Nah. That's just ixG per 60, which is more of the same.

If the idea here is to use ixG in a predictive way, then it would be nice to see the actual results along side it to see which players are on track, ahead of the track, or behind it. Ovi is essentially right on track, McDavid is a little behind, Draisaitl is well ahead, Jeff Skinner is ahead...

That's not ixG. That's just G. Ovi has 6 5v5 goals this year, but this chart shows his ixG as being over 6. JVR has 1 5v5 goal but his ixG is 4.25ish. JVR certainly hasn't accumulated any of his expected 5v5 goals yet...

That's not what ixG is.

That doesn't make any sense. Alex Ovechkin is predicted to get 6 goals.

I wish they would put UNITS on these charts. ixG of 5 doesn't mean anything to me. 5 what. ixG60 makes sense, that's just expected goals per 60 minutes of ice time.

I think Gilmour subbing in is a good fit against a speedy Detroit team anyway.

This would be my guess.

Yeah, he's probably feeling it today.

or "ron paul it's happening.gif"?