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Hoss has been kind of a dick recently.

Taylor Hall continues to be draft lottery money.

This is more meaningless than Edmonton fan critiques of McLellan.

Yea, I really don't care about dropping from 5 to 7. It's irrelevant. I just freaking despise the teams that moved up.

In a league where over half the teams make the playoffs, everyone who misses kinda sucks, no?

Chicago, NYR, and NJ? Gross. Gross gross gross.

Not entirely. His Rangers success was built on relying on Lundqvist. We, uh, don't have that. You can day be coached to his team's strengths, but frankly, even in Vancouver he had Luongo in his prime. Can he win in 2019 with what is likely to be average at best goaltending? It's a fair question to ask. Luongo versus Hutton/Ullmark is a huge difference, though.

Yea, we basically have almost the same chance of a huge win as last year. Downside is larger, of course. Luckily, there's really not much of a difference between drafting 5th and 8th.

We're going to not lose. Heard it here first. Interpret that as you will.

His handling of the NYR roster is about as inspiring as death. He was Bylsma.

A coach can reach the same conclusions with the numbers, but it's basically impossible for him to see all of the data. Human memory and cognition is just pretty terrible that way. Whether you think that's a meaningful distinction is up to you, but I think it is.

Since Lindy was fired, we've had 2 experienced coaches and 2 rookies. Since the tank, it's been 1 and 1. It's not like we haven't failed with the experienced route.

2. Can you find me examples of where you think it has been misused? It gets mentioned in one-game contexts here and there, but I've never gotten the impression that those doing so think it is definitive. 3. Yes, me and....not many others. I could probably count on one hand the number of times I have persuaded anyone with statistics if it disagrees with their eyes.

Just the other day Mike Babcock said he uses xG (expected goals) to evaluate defensemen. After all, there's a reason he loves Rielly and Gardiner despite their numerous defensive zone gaffes. Jon Cooper has regularly talked about it in the past. Those are two that come to mind, and they're not exactly scrubs.

1st bold: But the thing is, eyes don't capture everything either. How often do you lay this exact critique on the eye test? Most people apply this particular critique asymmetrically. 2nd bold: I'm not sure what you mean here. Care to elaborate? 3rd bold: Of course. But at the same time, nobody is saying to base decisions solely on small samples. 4th bold: Naturally it's the coaches prerogative. However, if the coach always just happens to find the data lacking when it disagrees with his judgment, then that's a problem. There's not a problem with sometimes rejecting the data, but there is a big problem with always rejecting it.

Meh. If you're not going to use the stuff (and all indications are Fenton didn't), it's a waste of payroll.

Well, they don't have the guy who is 2 years from being the best defenseman in the world. I get the San Jose stuff, but how much of it was underachieving versus simply getting stuck against the Kings and Hawks in their prime? No shame in losing to those teams.

If you have 3 NHL forwards worth a damn, it's hard to do much, regardless of how good they are.

Nope. I don't want to be misunderstood as the numbers are always right, or paint the entire picture. But this is the description of someone who will take numbers into account only if they match his existing evaluation. Just as you shouldn't only follow the stats, you shouldn't only follow your eyes.

It's just the kind of thing somebody says when they don't believe they're useful but also don't want to be hounded by questions about it.

Those quotes are pretty rough, I think. Seems like a guy who could accentuate our problems as likely as solve any of them.

I hate you with the fire of a thousand suns.

Entirely possible, and something I have wondered about on and off.

Eh, it's not like any other coach we've had lately has paid any attention to him.

Hey now, trying to lure Angry 11 out of hiding is no laughing matter.