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Basically this... thought after missing the backcheck on the wings first goal he got a little tentative til he started picking it up again. Looked like not lost but not comfortable where he should be and deciding how fast he should transition out. Looked like he deferred a lot. As others have said, it will come with time as he gets more comfortable, but yes he showed his hands a couple of times. Will need to get used to the close checking and time and space issues. Looked like he was asking a lot of questions on the bench... a good thing.

Really bet he was trying for an own goal.

Lehner should never be allowed to play puck along wall.

Goal on first shift

Intersting Crisco is back practicing... always forget about him and his speed. It’d be nice if he pans out.

Unfortunately water under the bridge at this point. Hopefully the Sharks win the whole thing then fall off the cliff with their old guys and Sabres get a least one lottery pick or two next year. Again JBots seems to rebuilding the right way now and hope he keeps it going.

I see nuttiing...,

Shrooms were good last nite huh?

Exactly what I was trying to get at. Hot streaks and slumps can overexagerrate a players value both from a positive or negative way. Data smooths out the noise. Or it can account for variability and historical swings in a players play. It still wont account for recovery from one time injuries short term. TRpm is a good start but flawed in evaluating a players performance and value and doesnt account swings. Sabres got in trouble with Stafford because of this... that being said a player on a hot streak is valuable when on a hot streak or not. Itd be nice to see if there was a predictor or likelihood of such play and coaches and GMs could factor in that expectation and adjust accordingly. Sam’s current hot streak.. though is it sustainable because of player growth... contract year or just a hot streak?

Again it is only a snap shot in time, unless like ROR on faceoffs he has been doing it a long time. Guys who play against best offensive guys or penalty kills are intuitively gonna give up more goals. Guys who are sheltered to go against less stong defensemen will generally have higher plus minus if they have good offensive skills. Overall team + - means more to me than individuals over 1 season. Eg Stafford comes to mind in a contract year. Teams get suckered into giving these guys big contracts for 1 seasons performance v consistent over and I am not sure where the significance increases 2 or 3 years that plus minus becomes more telling. Dadnov is a good example; does he keep it up, does playoff hockey effect his performance and do any other guys have good playoffs but mediocre regular season. Ovi has been inconsistent in the playoffs. Does TRpm mean much with one year of data or can a player adjust and get better or worse. Again, why Flagg suggests there is a data set issue. Not that it doesnt mean anything, but its significance may not mean as much as we would all like. It would be easier. More data is always better. Figuring out the right weighting is as well. Can you tell me what weighting you use. You probably already stated it but humor me and remind me.

LOL to each his own, who knows, maybe he has bigger sense of humor than you think. Could be his father is Steve Martin!!

Appreciate the attempt and think it provides a glimpse, but as Flagg implied a shortage of info can really skew these stats short term. TRpm may be a better stat as a longer term predictor after a few years of data, but hard to use for a developing player.

There is not enough info in that stat. Agree with Flagg... ? Ill need to dig out my old stat books but confidence levels. Also look at political campaign stats and how often they are wrong because of sample sizes and measuring errors, in this case accounting for talent of lines played against, goalie in net and probably other factors making predictive inferences difficult at best.

Still ensuring last place.

That prospects list had Adam at 240lbs misprint? Has to be every else has him listed 205

No Canadians in top 5? Euros dominating top of draft?

You need to leave, how dare you denigrate Our Lord and Savior... :)

And he is, was and always will be a fish fan... a devil in my book... so what if he is gifted.

Karma already happened... Jack's second high ankle sprain on a flukey fall in the corner... Call it even.

Sorry but Vanek got a Hattie last night. You really don't want him? His mitts are still sick...

Isn't Asplund a tree removing service? So maybe the little guy can fell some trees!

Medical xray/CT in an ER

BTW if you need to pick on them its Baaastan, not Boson.

Nailed it!

Hey my son’s head of music at middle school’s name is Peter Griffin: https://youtu.be/NpS4ebEtLUE