GDT: #1 - 10/04/18 | predators @ RANGERS | 7:30 - MSG, NBCSN

[ReggieDunlop68]

The stat is certainly interesting, though it might be a little misleading. It essentially treats all >4pt teams equally, which isn't necessarily realistic.

If, for example, you exclude just the last place team in each conference (I haven't looked but I doubt a team in last on Nov 1st. has made it) that bumps the success rate of the remaining teams up closer to 25%. That seems a little more in line with what you would intuitively expect it to be. In some cases you could probably exclude more teams that are noticeably closer to the bottom then then top, which would likely move the success rate closer to 30-40%

I think a more meaningful way to do this, if you're reading this Elliotte Friedman , would be to track playoff appearances as a function of some standard deviation of points from the conference mean on a given date.

Enough nerding, carry on, I'll see myself out.

48% of the teams ultimately DO NOT make the playoffs.

12% of the teams is the crap pile overcome that hurdle by the end of the season.

It def makes sense.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Also, as a long term fan their is a difference between rooting for a team to lose in some masochistic or even sadistic sense than being perfectly fine with icing a weaker yet developing team or even a weaker yet better developing startegy for the long term good of the team.

Im rooting for the team in the long run, so that doesn’t mean I’m “rooting against them” if I don’t give a shit if they bottom out for a bit to actually help the franchise long term.

I honestly feel “go hard or go home” rooting for the team at this junction is either homerism or just RangersTown Marketing.

 

[Ola]

Not for nothing namestnikov is on the fourth line because that’s where his play warrants him to be. An absolute dog since he’s gotten here. Play better and you’ll get a top 9 spot back. Total Joke the way he’s played

I definitely agree in the sense that it’s Names job to hit the ice and earn more ice time. It’s one thing if he didn’t put up pts in a 4th but actually played well and created chances. But a more or less 2-way guy like him must just do better and have a bigger impact.

It’s anybody’s guess but I would bet that Gorts was referring to Names when he said that he was going to have a talk with some players after last season. He clowned out last season.

 

[Tawnos]

I'm very excited about this game. Mostly because my parents just moved down here to Charlotte from NY and I'll get to watch the game with my dad, who is the reason I'm a Rangers fan. I guess that also makes him the reason you have to suffer through me posting, so you can be the judge of whether or not it's a good thing. After watching games being the thing we did for a very long time, I haven't gotten to watch many with him in the last decade. It'll be great.

 

[EdJovanovski]

So excited!!!

 

[NYR Viper]

I'm very excited about this game. Mostly because my parents just moved down here to Charlotte from NY and I'll get to watch the game with my dad, who is the reason I'm a Rangers fan. I guess that also makes him the reason you have to suffer through me posting, so you can be the judge of whether or not it's a good thing. After watching games being the thing we did for a very long time, I haven't gotten to watch many with him in the last decade. It'll be great.

Thanks dad!

 

[Zucc36]

Let´s tank

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Cherish this day, for it is the day when we're on the same par with the 2018-19 President's Trophy and Stanley Cup winners.

The sky’s the limit!

 

[CasusBelli]

Let´s tank

Hank the Tank?

 

[Ail]

I'm very excited about this game. Mostly because my parents just moved down here to Charlotte from NY and I'll get to watch the game with my dad, who is the reason I'm a Rangers fan. I guess that also makes him the reason you have to suffer through me posting, so you can be the judge of whether or not it's a good thing. After watching games being the thing we did for a very long time, I haven't gotten to watch many with him in the last decade. It'll be great.

 

[I Eat Crow]

6-1 OTL

 

[Tawnos]

 

[NYR713]

Great to see a regular season GDT. My buddy picked up an extra ticket for me for Venom tonight and I had to give him the ole' "Thanks, but sorry bud. Not gonna make it."

I'm good with the lines. Everyone is still so focused on numbering the lines and Vesey on the 2nd, but it makes sense. Hayes and Zucc like to possess the puck and are already good defensively. Vesey is there to get beat up in front of the net and look for tap-ins and garbage. I don't want him on Chytil's or Howden's lines and I also see a great spot for Chytil to move into late in games if the team is trailing.

There is no 4th line on this team. It's like a 2A-2B-3A-3B look. Instead of worrying about the negative side, look at the potentials of Howden with Namest and Lettieri and Chytil with Fast and Spooner. There were a lot of people on these forums that think Spoons should be in the top 6 and Quickie adds value to any line. Spoons can dish, Chytil can try to be the star of his own line and Fast is Fast.

I'm excited to get going. If they win some games, it's fun. If they lose a bunch... cool... lottery. No pressure and a win-win. And, if you want good value for the guys that will be on the trade block, you have to root for them to play well. So, let's go Staal and Smith and Hayes and Vesey and Namest and all you pigs who can bring back assets in February.

 

[SML2]

I'm going to be super excited if Hank doesn't let the first shot of the season past him.

 

[SML2]

I'm going to be super disappointed if Hank does let the first shot of the season past him.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Yeah take that Papa @Tawnos !

 

[SML2]

I apologize. I don't know why that post repeated so many times.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

I apologize. I don't know why that post repeated so many times.

It was shaming you for dishonoring the King.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Rock is r-o-C-k!

 

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

Rock is r-o-C-k!

Oooooooh—the "c" is silent.

 

[Tawnos]

Yeah take that Papa @Tawnos !

He's a poster on here too... so @Ail better be careful.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

Oooooooh—the "c" is silent.

The deal is off...Eric gets the company.

I choose Business Ethics...

 

[Kaapo Cabana]

Great to see a regular season GDT. My buddy picked up an extra ticket for me for Venom tonight and I had to give him the ole' "Thanks, but sorry bud. Not gonna make it."

I'm good with the lines. Everyone is still so focused on numbering the lines and Vesey on the 2nd, but it makes sense. Hayes and Zucc like to possess the puck and are already good defensively. Vesey is there to get beat up in front of the net and look for tap-ins and garbage. I don't want him on Chytil's or Howden's lines and I also see a great spot for Chytil to move into late in games if the team is trailing.

There is no 4th line on this team. It's like a 2A-2B-3A-3B look. Instead of worrying about the negative side, look at the potentials of Howden with Namest and Lettieri and Chytil with Fast and Spooner. There were a lot of people on these forums that think Spoons should be in the top 6 and Quickie adds value to any line. Spoons can dish, Chytil can try to be the star of his own line and Fast is Fast.

I'm excited to get going. If they win some games, it's fun. If they lose a bunch... cool... lottery. No pressure and a win-win. And, if you want good value for the guys that will be on the trade block, you have to root for them to play well. So, let's go Staal and Smith and Hayes and Vesey and Namest and all you pigs who can bring back assets in February.

I like your style. Optimistic is the only way to be.

I can tolerate your reasoning for Vesey being on the second line. I don't like it, but it makes sense.

If Vesey is in the lineup I'd rather he stay away from rookies. I just wish he wasn't in the lineup

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

He's a poster on here too... so @Ail better be careful.

Oh man you have to spill the beans now.

Reveal yourself lurking father of @Tawnos

If it’s @Machinehead i will have organ failure from laughter.

 

[Thirty One]

He's a poster on here too... so @Ail better be careful.

Is it @DoTheBlue?

 

[Off Sides]

I apologize. I don't know why that post repeated so many times.

It's okay, they are now placeholders, after the game just edit those posts to make it look like you were clairvoyant.

 

[Tawnos]

Oh man you have to spill the beans now.

Reveal yourself lurking father of @Tawnos

If it’s @Machinehead i will have organ failure from laughter.

Ha... well, I've mentioned before that he posts on here. And he's mentioned before in his posts that I post on here. We've just never named each other by name, nor will we

It's not Machinehead though. I would be ashamed.... plus, I'm older than him.

 

[PlamsUnlimited]

5-2w