Speculation: "15 or so" Teams Scouting NYI-CGY tonight
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East Coast Icestyle
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I still don't understand why people are surprised that teams are scouting other.teams, let alone bottom teams. Lots of prep work to make good trade deadline deals, etc.
Some Other Flame
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no
East Coast Icestyle
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I apologize if posting a thread about scouts being listed at games is coming off as a surprise. Some people want to know, regardless if it's trade deadline scouting or not.
Sonny21
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East Coast Icestyle
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It's just going to be fueling a fire that doesn't exist over Hamilton right now, sorry if I come across rude.
Johnny GODreau
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I like reading about these stuff. Would of liked to know if Leafs were among them
Probably, Flames play the Leafs on Wednesday....
Jumptheshark
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here is where I got to remind people
Rule 1 of scouting--you scout
there are only 2 games on tonight and one involves a NYC team and tomorrow you have Philly and Rangers at home respectively. When there are ten games on and I see 15+ scouts at a game then my radar goes off--but when there are just two games being played and one is a NY team--15 teams should be expected
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McFlyingV
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Pretty much this. I wouldn't read too much into it. Its their job to be scouting games every night.
Backlund
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Jumptheshark
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FYI
At games there is always between 5 to 10 scouts at games. On nights like tonight when there are just two games being played you will have more
IF tomorrow when the Devils play the jets if there is 15 scouts at the game--then that mean something. As there are 12 games on there are more games to scout.
Without searching twitter for the list--here are my predictions about the other scouts in attendance tonight(well the teams they are from)
Ptts, WAsh, Detroit, TO, Philly, Devils, Rangers, Avs, Oilers, Canes, Boston, Dallas
when you get a final list see how many of the above teams were represented today.
2 games on--reading too much into scouts at a game in NYC
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wgknestrick
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Is it funny that teams spend so many resources to send a scout to a single game when they could just watch several old game tapes and run some advanced stats? I will never understand this. 1 game will always gives you the wrong conclusion about a player.
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SI90
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I have always felt this way as well. Surely one could make a shift by shift video of any given player over a span of games.
Backlund
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You realize teams are owned by billionaires right? And what makes you assume they base their opinion on the one game they're going to watch? Every scout should be watching tape, looking at stats and watching them play in person.
This is easy to explain. Scouts just do not watch the action, they watch what the players are doing away from the play and they watch what the coaches do while the game is in play, who they talk to and what happens when that player goes over the boards to play.
Emerald Duck
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9 of the 12 teams are a 60-90 min flight (or a bus/train ride) from New York.
For these scouts on a slow NHL game night, tonight is just "Date Night" in NYC
