Back to Back Hopefully Becomes Back to Form

Since I count as 4 people myself, make it 8x

I’m worried about all three. But mostly the scoring.

i’m worried these pants make me look fat.

Don’t you have a zombie plan?

I also would have accepted, “Blank? Blank? You’re not looking at the big picture!”

<3 you both

But will he take a slap shot standing still at the blueline on a penalty shot?

Adorable

He’s done such a good job he’s actually managed to push down the quality of his opponents!

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Hahaha, that would be awesome. It was more to highlight that Nick Lidstrom has been ridiculously great and playing the really tough minutes for the Wings since forever. I hadn’t even thought of the Mike Green angle on that, to be completely honest.

But seriously, if Green is hot on Lidstrom’s heels and ahead of Markov, Pronger and Timonen in a QComp measure adjusted for team by Corsi totals, don’t you think that points to a data set that needs expanding before relevance is attached to it?

He missed both games against BOS, which is the only team they’ve played so far, other than NSH, that had consistently positive RATING, which is how QCOMP is computed.

Corsi rel QoC and QoT are computed in the same way using the Corsi Rel stat instead of rating, that’s all. It’s using Corsi instead of adjusted-plus-minus and it’s reset to the axis of the team when he was in the lineup, rather than the absolute scale.

Pronger is the Flyers go-to shutdown guy. We’re still talking about a really small sample here, one that will get a lot more meaningful as the season progresses. They mean something, but they don’t mean much and you really can’t form a conclusion based on them yet. Brian Fahey is a call-up and is facing a huge Corsi Rel QComp number, despite being hidden in his own end. The sample size simply isn’t there yet.

Lidstrom is still way down towards the bottom in zone start. He’s still their shutdown D, whether he’s old or not, and he still does a really good job at it.

Holzer is something like a 7th round pick, Aulie is a Burkian acquisition

Aulie, Mikus, Richmond, Lashoff all shoot left. Holzer and Gysbers shoot right.

He is according to Marlies’ site.

I’m pretty sure I said above that he’s better than he’s made out to be in his own end, but putting him with the elite two-way guys on defense is “patently absurd”.

If you’re talking about conventional, 1-on-1-type defense or making the perfect read, he’s average or slightly above. No more than that, but he’s not a walking disaster. His speed, however, lets him get out of the zone with puck on his stick, or win more than his fair share of 50/50 pucks. I am not, in any way, suggesting that he’s a guy like Jan Hejda or Marc Staal, who’s going to shut down the top line. He isn’t.

What he does do is play well against the forecheck and make sure the break out happens. That limits chances against when he’s in his own zone. You can call that defense, you can call that the beginning of offense, I don’t really care. Green is an elite player that 29 other GMs would smash their phones dialing McPhee if he ever became available. He’s highly effective, even if it isn’t in a way that’s conventional.

An NHL hockey rink is 200ft from end boards to end boards with 11feet from end boards to goal line. Now if we assume that Green is cycling in one corner (radius of 28ft) and that we’re measuring from the exacty middle of the goalmouth at ice level that would mean that the farthest Green could ever be with the puck from his own goal while on the ice surface is 189.763 feet.

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