X. Benedict
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Mike makes some good points.
Sidney Crosby blows out his knee the next time he's in town. Is there or is there not a roar from the crowd? A roar of delight?
#grow up #realworld #thisiswar
Have you been watching pro wrestling?
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I'm not advocating for violence against McDavid. I don't see what's controversial about what I'm saying. Fans aren't allowed to root against the opposition? Really? Real fans don't want McDavid to be a flop? Are you not rooting for Eichel to be better? This idea that Sabres fans have to worship McDavid and hope for the very best for him seems like a sign that we're so beaten down we don't even consider ourselves part of the league anymore. Think Hawks fans want health and wellness for McDavid so he can be the next great one and help supplant the Chicago dynasty? I hope the tibia is next to go. Why should I care? The league doesn't care about offense and talent, why should I?
#zero######sgiven
It's hockey. There's little requirement to be classy. Mike Schopp said it best when some people said fans cheering for the opposition last season was classless. "What class? It's a hockey arena." (paraphrase)
<voice of Vader>. You may take Chris Kelly to Jabba the Hutt once you have delivered to me young McDavid Skywalker.
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From that clip, I have no idea what happened to Kelly.
That looks like a career ender for a 34 year old 3rd/4th liner.
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I want to see McDavid succeed.
Good for the game, and he's out west.
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I reflected last night. Then I slept like a baby. Tell me you didn't wish for Troy Aikman to slip on a banana peel before those Super Bowls.
It's a harsh business. As usual, I'm ahead of the curve. The Sabres and the Oilers meet in the finals in the three years. McDavid is day to day with a whatever. I'm sure this board would be pulling for Connor's return to full health, so they can watch his magnificent glory unfold before our very eyes.
Seems like a good person? We don't know anything about these guys, really.
If you see KARMA on the ice, head for the bench. He's got ham hocks for hands and will throw.
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That was my first thought. It was one of those moments when you realize how quickly it can end for these guys. All 3 of the guys that went into those boards are very fortunate.
A lot of mass and momentum in that pile.
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Watched it again. Mcdavid is really lucky it is just a collarbone. That's was close to a life on wheels
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Good. Hopefully it's just the beginning of a string of injuries that significantly shortens his career.
Short careers really kill stats.
I really want him back quickly, not only because I'm usually up late and like to watch good hockey, but because I really don't want to hear these words, "With the number one pick in the 2016 draft, the Edmonton Oilers select Auston Mathews!"
Hurry Back McDavid. Hurry Back.
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McDavid with an EJ moment? ... The very idea of it.
This is going to hurt his stats. :P
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Looks like the Oilers took a big hit losing McDavid for probably 6-8 weeks.
He was on a point per game pace. Looks like Eichel will be the main attraction for the next few months
http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/14048557/connor-mcdavid-edmonton-oilers-leaves-shoulder-injury
I'm just wondering where McDavid thought he was going on the play all alone.
And ouch.
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FIRE EVERYBODY!
Ahem. FIRE EVERYBODYS!
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If the point about parity is the reason we can't have nice things in the NHL, how sad. I also learned today that canned pumpkin isn't necessarily pumpkin. Everything I've always believed in... right down the drain.
The family tells me yellow #5 that colors cheese products is not cheese. Damn them for spoiling my cheesy ignorance. I'm moving to make yellow #5 a cheese. That way I can live in peace for the rest of my snacking days.
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And my point is by letting things go, they are helping decide the game.
They are allowing contact within the frame of the body. Once it is outside that they are calling interference. They've been consistent, at least.
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Thread title should be: Zemgus The Destroyers
Keep it plural people. Respects for Latvians Peoples
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I'm not sure, but for players and management I think it is an equilibrium they can live with.I'd be interested in the thought behind your thought. Why wouldn't the league touch it? Is there a fan base for the interference? Legit and sincere to the informed.
Part of it I believe is players and owners didn't like the lopsided result in many of the 82 games in a long season when they didn't have legs, they fear embarrassment more than they like the thrills of a faster product. IMO.
I strongly disagree with this sentiment. As long as the refs aren't calling a bunch of phantom penalties. Frankly, I think "letting them play" is very much the refs deciding the game, since such a style may favor one team over another.
Refs really try to be consistent. Refs never want to leave the impression that they decided the game. Last Sabres game really was a pretty clean game for instance.
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I agree with the bolded, but I wish the NHL would go back to stricter enforcement of interference as in 2005-07.
Me too. Especially on entries. I don't think the league is going to touch it soon.
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I thought the isles Sabres was an evenly called game. A lot of stuff they let go behind the play, some stuff an both sides were missed, but a well called game is really one where the players dictate the result. That was true.
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Didn't Cookie Gilchrist used to jump out of helicopters? seeing a baseball game is pretty tame stuff.
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I'm unclear on what you're saying, or the extent to which you're joking.
The scenario you lay out above is, of course, poppycock.
You're a veritable sage around here, but your apparent intransigence on this point is confusing.
A team sits atop the division. Their possession numbers are just so so. They have the league's best SH% and a no-name goalie playing out of his mind.
Is there any predictive value there?
Let me clarify. I don't think individual shooting percentages mean much at all. They might tell something,but for the life of me, I can't think they are used much. Unlike say, basketball, when a player shoots, it is a shot (even if it is an airball). But shooting percentage in the NHL is is goals/shots on goal not goals/shots attempted.....so there are no missed shots, blocked shots, or fanned shots in the arithmetic.
A Paul Cyr might have had a lifetime 13% shooting percentage or something, but not factored in to that were the 150 shots a year that never hit net and wounded happy fans from Angola, West Seneca, and Lewis-ton over the glass.
I just don't think it S% is a very helpful number, or a very good comparable stat. between players. Corsi is much better.
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There is a ton of info in those numbers. We can safely predict that those players will regress. Knowing how far they will regress is important.
I'm chuckling a little at this.
If something can be safely predicted, I'm not sure how much use it is. Paul Byron is shooting 100% He will probably regress 85% over a season. While safe, I'm not going to say that one is particularly important. Shooting percentage measures the shots that hit net. He could miss the net the next 300 shots and still be shooting 100% and never regress.
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I'm out of touch with the rest of the league so far. I had no idea those guys had that many goals already. I wouldn't have expected to see them near the top of the list. I know, I know, small sample sizes, it's early, blah blah blah. But still, I figured all three in your list would have similar goal totals.
Really I am delighted Paul Byron is shooting 100 percent.
Sure it means something, it is kind of like the old NL baseball cards where a set-up reliever batted 5 times all season and got 2 hits and batted .400 for the year.
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At least in press conferences and interviews, Babcock reminds me a lot of Lindy. Very dry humor and always good for a one liner or two. Bylsma is just dull in front of the mic...but if Beyond Blue and Gold is any indication, he's a much different guy with the team. And I'm fine with that.
The pairs are really something Lindy did, or still does.
The difference is how they are implemented.
Lindy paired LW-C for years, and would float all the RW's onto different lines.
Byslma has pairs, but uses them to double shift his best players regardless of position.
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Oh they mean something. Those players have scored on 100%, 34%, and 28% of shots they have taken SO FAR. That doesn't necessarily mean is is predictive of their future shots.
:lol: I'll rephrase......there is very little utility in knowing those numbers as percentages.
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I don't think shooting percentage is primarily luck driven.
Not luck driven, but often meaningless.
Paul Byron has 2 goals and is shooting 100%
Joel Ward is shooting 34%.
Zucharello is shooting 28%
They just don't mean anything.
McDavid breaks collarbone. Out "Long Term"
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we hope he never scores again, we wish him a short career because we don't like his style, we hope he loses every fight he's in. We don't hope he becomes paralyzed, brain addled with unchecked syphillis, financially ruined, with an exit like boogaard.
In the end it is the game that makes me happy. The wins are fleeting. Even cups I suspect are fleeting....but I wouldn't know.
But I have that sense from those that have won them.