alphseeker Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 (edited) Ray Shero fired in Pittsburgh.I can only hope Dan is next! Nope, looks like Bylsma is staying. http://www.nhl.com/i...vid=DL|NHL|homeIf Abysmal is staying, which is shocking, then they better find another Captain because he has failed to find a way to motivate Cindy in the post season. Edited May 16, 2014 by alphseeker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisibleairwaves Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 The Penguins' depth has been severely whittled away over the past 3 years and MAF is still erratic. None of that is on Bylsma, Sid, or Malkin. Weird that those three seem to be shouldering the blame from fans and media, though. But as a fan of a team without a head coach, I also hope Bylsma gets canned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushCanuck Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Let's go Blackhawks. I'm going to give you a pass for trading Hayes, and pull for you to repeat.I want a Blackhawks repeat too! :cheerleader: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Let's go Blackhawks. I'm going to give you a pass for trading Hayes, and pull for you to repeat.I want a Blackhawks repeat too! :cheerleader: Blackhawks!!!!!!!!!! It's going to be a So. Cal. / Montreal Finals - With the habs taking it all :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Sabermetrics comes to the rink. http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/game-7-stats-vs-ducks/ In the month since I prematurely buried the Los Angeles Kings, the’ve battled back from a 3-0 deficit against the San Jose Sharks and staved off elimination Wednesday night to pull even with the Anaheim Ducks. Now we have a winner-take-all Game 7 Friday night, for the right to face the Chicago Blackhawks in the Western Conference finals. According to the most commonly cited advanced stat, the Kings shouldn’t have had things so hard. As I’ve previously written, they finished first in the NHL during the regular season in score-close Fenwick percentage, a measurement of how much a team controls possession of the puck. The consensus of hockey analysts is that dominating possession is the most predictive single component of a team’s performance, since the rate at which the puck finds the net once a shot is taken can be subject to wild fluctuations due to random chance. In the Kings’ defense, their first-round opponents, the Sharks, ranked third in the NHL in Fenwick close during the regular season, making it more likely the two teams would have to battle deep into a series. (The Sharks also had home-ice advantage in the series) But Los Angeles’ matchup with the Ducks is another case entirely. During the regular season, Anaheim ranked just 16th out of the 30 NHL teams in Fenwick close, relying more on high shooting and save percentages — metrics that statisticians traditionally attribute more to luck, even over the sample of an entire season — than to constant puck-possession. So far in this clash of hockey cultures, things have largely played out according to form. During 5-on-5 situations with the score close (the same conditions measured by Fenwick close), the Kings have dominated possession. But Fenwick close by itself ignores other aspects of the game, such as special teams (where the Ducks have had a slight advantage) and, even more important, shooting percentage. In the series so far, Anaheim is converting shots into goals at a rate 1.1 percentage points higher than LA. Looking at possession metrics alone would have suggested a mismatch before the series, but the betting lines had the Kings as only a slim favorite after taking into account the Ducks’ home-ice advantage. This implies that the market was building in some expectation that the teams’ differences in shooting percentage during the regular season (Anaheim ranked first in the NHL; Los Angeles ranked 28th) could be counted upon to continue in a head-to-head matchup. There’s a good amount of evidence that, across the NHL as a whole, team shooting and save percentages have a strong tendency to regress toward the overall league average. But in the case of outliers like the Ducks and Kings, there’s probably something real going on that makes looking at Fenwick close by itself an insufficient gauge of relative team strength. Anything can happen on the ice in a Game 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Kings lead 1-0, 4 and a half minutes in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 2-0 9 minutes in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Carters goal was beautiful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 YES 3-0 :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I think this one is over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 I think this one is over. Too early for that in a game 7 where the team who's down is at home. Even if that were the score after the 2nd I'd still be leery. But I am feeling optimistic right now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 3-0 including 2 off the posts. They are winning every battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 KOPITAR - 4-0 :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 More and more, Darryl Sutter is reminding me of Gabby Johnson from Blazing Saddles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 5-0. That LA power play was gorgeous. Wow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 GABORIK 5-0 :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: :dweez: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 damn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILSnwdog Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Hawks have home ice next round! :banana: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhawkrush Posted May 17, 2014 Author Share Posted May 17, 2014 More and more, Darryl Sutter is reminding me of Gabby Johnson from Blazing Saddles.His voice reminds me of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhawkrush Posted May 17, 2014 Author Share Posted May 17, 2014 Hawks have home ice next round! :banana:And throughout the playoffs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Kings / Ducks showed teams like Boston what real respect is all about after the game. The Kings staying on the ice and saluting Selane was amazing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphseeker Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Hawks have home ice next round! :banana:And throughout the playoffs. Game on :P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisibleairwaves Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Sabermetrics comes to the rink. http://fivethirtyeig...stats-vs-ducks/ In the month since I prematurely buried the Los Angeles Kings, the’ve battled back from a 3-0 deficit against the San Jose Sharks and staved off elimination Wednesday night to pull even with the Anaheim Ducks. Now we have a winner-take-all Game 7 Friday night, for the right to face the Chicago Blackhawks in the Western Conference finals. According to the most commonly cited advanced stat, the Kings shouldn’t have had things so hard. As I’ve previously written, they finished first in the NHL during the regular season in score-close Fenwick percentage, a measurement of how much a team controls possession of the puck. The consensus of hockey analysts is that dominating possession is the most predictive single component of a team’s performance, since the rate at which the puck finds the net once a shot is taken can be subject to wild fluctuations due to random chance. In the Kings’ defense, their first-round opponents, the Sharks, ranked third in the NHL in Fenwick close during the regular season, making it more likely the two teams would have to battle deep into a series. (The Sharks also had home-ice advantage in the series) But Los Angeles’ matchup with the Ducks is another case entirely. During the regular season, Anaheim ranked just 16th out of the 30 NHL teams in Fenwick close, relying more on high shooting and save percentages — metrics that statisticians traditionally attribute more to luck, even over the sample of an entire season — than to constant puck-possession. So far in this clash of hockey cultures, things have largely played out according to form. During 5-on-5 situations with the score close (the same conditions measured by Fenwick close), the Kings have dominated possession. But Fenwick close by itself ignores other aspects of the game, such as special teams (where the Ducks have had a slight advantage) and, even more important, shooting percentage. In the series so far, Anaheim is converting shots into goals at a rate 1.1 percentage points higher than LA. Looking at possession metrics alone would have suggested a mismatch before the series, but the betting lines had the Kings as only a slim favorite after taking into account the Ducks’ home-ice advantage. This implies that the market was building in some expectation that the teams’ differences in shooting percentage during the regular season (Anaheim ranked first in the NHL; Los Angeles ranked 28th) could be counted upon to continue in a head-to-head matchup. There’s a good amount of evidence that, across the NHL as a whole, team shooting and save percentages have a strong tendency to regress toward the overall league average. But in the case of outliers like the Ducks and Kings, there’s probably something real going on that makes looking at Fenwick close by itself an insufficient gauge of relative team strength. Anything can happen on the ice in a Game 7Huge fan of this stuff. There's a guy by the name of Tyler Dellow who does a fantastic job at breaking down stats and tying them together with game video on his blog and Twitter feed. He's primarily an Oilers blogger (the poor bastard) but he does a lot of work relating to the rest of the league as well. There's definitely something weird going on with the Kings' chronically low shooting percentages (tonight's outburst notwithstanding) but most of the time it's worth ignoring the outliers. It's hard to tell the difference between a team that genuinely has above/below average percentages and a team that's just in the middle of a hot or cold streak...for example, the Leafs management team spent most of this season bragging that their awful possession numbers weren't a problem because they were still scoring lots of goals. Sure enough, their percentages later dried up and they bombed out of a playoff spot. It's usually safer to just bet on the team that dominates possession regardless of the goal totals. Ducks played a great series though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-0-0-1-0-0-1 Posted May 17, 2014 Share Posted May 17, 2014 Kings / Ducks showed teams like Boston what real respect is all about after the game. The Kings staying on the ice and saluting Selane was amazing. I got a little misty watching that. Pure class by the entire Kings team. Taking notes, Lucic? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhawkrush Posted May 17, 2014 Author Share Posted May 17, 2014 Hawks have home ice next round! :banana:And throughout the playoffs. Game on :PWe meet again. :fury: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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