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Pokecheque

I’ve been told it’s spelled “Pokecheck”
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As long as empty net goals count on +/-, it is a purely useless stat.

Byram has been very good for a few weeks now though. Is this one of his typical hot streaks that he has? Or has he turned a corner?

It's also useless because it depends on goaltending. A player can give up 20 scoring chances while he's on the ice, another player can give up only one, but if the goalie for the first guy makes all the saves and the other guy is Georgiev, that results in a minus-1.
 

henchman21

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It's also useless because it depends on goaltending. A player can give up 20 scoring chances while he's on the ice, another player can give up only one, but if the goalie for the first guy makes all the saves and the other guy is Georgiev, that results in a minus-1.
Certainly that plays a role too. Just naturally when you're playing with an empty net, the odds are much greater of giving up a goal than scoring one. I don't know where Mitts is today, but it has to be -5 or -6 with an emply net.
 
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dmac7719

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Certainly that plays a role too. Just naturally when you're playing with an empty net, the odds are much greater of giving up a goal than scoring one. I don't know where Mitts is today, but it has to be -5 or -6 with an emply net.
This is league wide not by team

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Tommy Shelby

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Kovalenko (3rd liner) has a higher ceiling than LOC (4th liner).

LOC can play on the 3rd line but he shouldn't stay there for too long. We're seeing right now the effect of too much ice time for him, he's ineffective at best.

Not sure I agree, LOC was fantastic last year on the 3rd line before he got hurt

He got that surgery that usually always takes players 6-8 months to start looking "right" again once they return to the lineup. I'll start to worry if he's still looking like this come next November
 

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