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Travis Yost makes the front page on TSN, interpreting analytics to say that Myers is a "risky" acquisition- based solely on the examination of Corsi% and ScoringChance%. Cute, but he fails to put that data into context with Myers' Corsi Rel QoC and Corsi Rel QoT: Myers has been playing the hardest minutes on the worst possession team in hockey. Are the Jets taking a risk? Sure. Is it because the Sabres were somehow better at possession and scoring chances because Myers wasn't on the ice? No way. Not with the quality of competition that was put upon him.

Accountability? Never.

No, but I did listen in for the first time in a while. What did I say?

We can laugh about the tank, but that situation would probably destroy the psyches of Risto and Zad.

I think that'd be asking a lot. Baptiste's NHLe is at about 25ish, Bailey's at about 30ish. They're both 19, they should probably both go to the A next year. Maybe play some big-club games for the experience either at the beginning or end of the season.

:thumbsup: You can sort the list by % of capacity... guess who's last. We slide down to 20th.

As stated in the article, that previous franchise low for Florida home attendance that was back in 2007 was 10,063. Florida's average home attendance this year has only been 10,577. Carolina and Phoenix are next at the bottom with 12,500 and 13,254 respectively. Buffalo's still up at #12 at 18401. For Florida to pay their salaries this year -just for the guys on their NHL roster (not their cap hit, not their AHL guys, and absolutely no other expenses)- with their attendance figures, attendees would have to pay an average of $76/seat. And we know they ain't collecting that when they've got $7/seat season tickets available. Their average ticket price is $33.49. I know there's lots of other revenue streams. For comparison, the Blackhawks would need to collect $85/ticket to do the same, and they collect on average $275.65 per seat. (1st in attendance, 3rd in avg ticket price)

Yeah PHam quoted Nolan on Sylvester this morning (if that's not third-hand enough). When asked if the injury to Gorges was season-ending, Nolan's response was "I'm not ready to go there yet." This meshes with the second opinion line. But for now it looks like he's out for a while. Wanna watch some bad hockey? Watch the rest of this season without Gorges. Bogosian's going to play 35 minutes a game, Risto and Zad the other 25, and without the ability to gain puck possession or break out, we might just to break the record for fewest goals for (133 set on 70 games played, currently on pace for 152 in 82).

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Buffalo smoked those chumps 7-2 in Imlach's first game back in Toronto.

Yes.

Byfuglien destroys Gadzic on a suicide pass from Fayne... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lrn-D38lzw

Your Venn diagram of hate fits nicely inside mine. Troof. All others are either "lazy," "streaky," or, in the case of Europeans, "have trouble adapting to the North American game."

This just in: Toronto attempting to recreate the 1955 Richard Riot, one of only four known forfeits in NHL history (Wanderers twice pre-folding in 1918, Blackhawks in 1933).

CHL race is heating up. Toronto front office has declared total war. Yotes refuse to shoot on net. Edmonton's injuring anyone who can help them get points. Buffalo's trading for players on the IR. It's anarchy out here.

At season start, they were 28th in weight, 19th in height, and 28th in age. Buffalo was 17th, 15th, and 29th, respectively. Anaheim's fat, Carolina and NYR are tied at short, New Jersey's geriatric.

Couldn't possibly be the Florida Panthers colors. Naw. Not like last year was Philly colors either. Naw. Or 2013 in NJ.

On this; it's difficult to see the difference in player usage from then until now (we don't have the tools), but the season-long player usage shows that Nolan's riding Zemgus and Gionta and Flynn with by far the hardest minutes among forwards on the team. They're playing shut down roles against hard opponents. Remember when Ruff rode Regehr like a horse into invisibility? Could be a similar thing. Could be that playing these guys hard, because they are at least perceived to be the best at that job, is keeping us from being worse than we are (if such a thing is possible). On Nolan, I need to see more clear-cut data, maybe in a non-tank situation, maybe with a non-tank roster. Most of these criticisms are lost in the noise of this fest.

(I've only skimmed this last page, but I'm seeing signs of hysterics.) An Islanders blogger clarified the CBA pretty well when Islanders fans were shitting themselves about Anders Lee a year after Justin Schultz went to Edmonton: CBA gibberish, skip it if you like: Clarification: However, this ability to go UFA as described in the clarification only applies to players that have not been signed as of four years or more since the date they were drafted. Eichel won't reach the four-years-since-drafted mark until June 2019, which will be one year after his graduation date. He couldn't escape Buffalo's rights until then. That's the part of the CBA that I bolded. So if Eichel wanted to escape Buffalo, he would graduate in 2018, and then be a holdout for one full year. That would give us plenty of time to shame him and trade him. In Schultz' case, he played a year of juniors after his draft year, then joined Wisconsin, then was eligible to escape Anaheim as a UFA by deregistering after four years has passed since the draft but before his senior year had started. This eligibility isn't met by most players and won't be met by Eichel. But there's a strong motivating factor for Eichel, who will likely have the option to go pro well before 2019, not to do this. The biggest reason why he won't do this? MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Everyone- the GM, the coach, his former coaches, NHL players, his family, his friends, and his agent especially will tell him how important it will be to start his professional career ASAP and to sign a guaranteed contract BEFORE HE SUFFERS A CAREER ENDING INJURY. While the chances of this are slim, it is the most important consideration for young athletes. Yes, it's an honor and a dream come true to be drafted. Yes, they want to live their dream of playing pro. Yes, they want to play as hard as they can to win at the pro level. Yes, they want to play toward their dream of winning the Stanley Cup. Those are the dreams. But they perceive a very real need to be compensated for the extremely risky profession they've undertaken and worked towards since their youth. Suffering a career-ending injury without compensation would be a life-altering disaster. Those are the nightmares.

The slow motion replay of the knee-on-body is ugly. No surprise Seguin's injured.

About a month from being a father, the article detailed. everything about that.

[besides the whole tank thing...] That's on Hodgson. If he can work his way out of whatever he's worked his way into, he takes Torry Mitchell's spot.

That was not a mistake.

I concur and happily will add: 5. Philly 6. Pittsburgh 7. Carolina 8. Dallas 9. Montreal 10. NYR And out of pity: 11. Florida 12. Columbus 13. Arizona And for legitimately challenging us in the tank, despite your years of wasting top picks: 14. Edmonton And while I'm at it, just for Dale Hunter's old ways: 15. Washington An extra one for Darcy Tucker: 16. Toronto And another extra couple for '99: 17. Dallas 18. Gary Bettman I guess that leaves only a few teams that EichDavid should end up on, but I yield the shitting on those teams to others.

In any case, I'm happy to be patient with him. But that's usually how I am. It took a while for me to start shitting on Stafford too, IIRC. His Corsi QoT is supershitty right now, hopefully he can make the corrections he needs to earn his way back into top-six.