Dr Jan Itor
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Does Yeo keep riding Kuemper as long as he's playing well or does Dubnyk get back next game?
Dubnyk. It's not like he was struggling when he went out.
Does Yeo keep riding Kuemper as long as he's playing well or does Dubnyk get back next game?
There was talk about HERO charts in the Dumba thread so here's all our defensemen Hero charts in one image.
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There was talk about HERO charts in the Dumba thread so here's all our defensemen Hero charts in one image.
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Also, I just looked and the Wild have the 2nd best in the West and 3rd best overall GA in the league. We are 18th in the league for GF, and 11th in the west.
Our defense has been quite top notch this season, even with a shaky start.
There was talk about HERO charts in the Dumba thread so here's all our defensemen Hero charts in one image.
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That chart is real suspicious in in all directions. Suter is a 3rd liner in scoring yet TOP 9 in whole NHL.
Dumba has better possession stats that Brodin, yet the games look completely different.
This whole chart is garbage. Literally only conclusion to make is that Prosser is 3rd pair level player for this team. Whoopidoo.
It spans 3 years of data and I'm pretty sure it looks at point production by taking consideration to TOI.
Also only looks at 5 on 5, and only counts primary assists. Suter has 8 EV assists, 6 of them primary assists.
Not perfect but not garbage. Pretty hard to have a quantification that can work for both low TOI guys and the extreme outliers like Suter.
Nothing against anybody, I d rather keep the whole D since it s fantastic.
However, the chart seems to value Spurgeon > Suter and Dumba > Brodin. Both of these are just flat out wrong conclusions. I am a stats man to the bone, but I think there is something missing in here that is causing the distortion.
Also, we have one top pair D (Spurgeon) and the rest hang in the 2nd-3rd pair range. Yet Wild D has been one of the really good NHL blue lines for couple last years... No way.
Hero chart is good for valuing forwards. D man valuation needs better metrics.
Suter is the only outlier really that I see, and your conclusions on the rest are different from mine.
Spurgeon is valued as being a top-pairing offensive guy, and top-4 guy defensively.
Scandella is valued as a top-pairing goal-scoring D, and is borderline top-pairing defenseman possession wise.
Brodin is valued as a top-pairing shut-down defender who may not generate chances on the offensive side but gives up almost no chances defensively.
Dumba is a top-scoring defenseman with bottom-pairing assists and mid-pairing possession with an extremely offensive role and very little TOI.
Based on that it's Spurgeon>Scandella>Brodin>Dumba, and I don't see how that's far from the truth.
now that the wild are finally playing what i consider good team hockey im looking at how we get to 106 points i predicted. with 52 games remaining we could go 28-14-10 adding 66 points. i think thats doable. GO WILD!
isnt there a monster difference in the way the team is playing these last 2 games? dont you think somebody lit a fire and woke the team up? i was extremely upset at how this team was playing even if they were adding a few points here & there.