chris kontos
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His anger doesn’t even seem convincing. It’s all awkward and performative.McDavid is losing it. This is fun.
But did the greatest player in the world think it was a game misconduct?Woodcroft game misconduct
Lmao
It might actually suggest that PDO is a very valuable stat as it relates to how good a team is.This was such an interesting matchup because the Canucks are the highest PDO team in the league, while the Oilers are near the bottom in PDO.
And it played out EXACTLY like you would expect; a team who can't get a save or a bounce verse a team who's getting all the saves and all the bounces.
Oilers come out and outshoot them 19-2 and still find themselves trailing after the 1st period.
YEAH...isn't it just crazy to think that players might have something to do with the performance of a team...isn't just absolute BONKERS to realize that???!!!Man. Crazy to think Woodcroft who has went much further than Todd might be out of a job for a bad season to start.
Not really. Shooting percentages and save percentages can run to extremes, particularly over small samples. The Canucks are scoring at greater than a 15% clip right now. Even the Oilers only finished last season at around 12% (which is where the top teams each season usually land). This Canucks team does not have 3% better natural shooting talent than the Oilers team from last season. And Demko and DeSmith just are not collectively going to save 93.6% of the shots the rest of the season. This article has a pretty good example of how PDO is something that normalizes close to 100 for most teams in the long run: The Canucks are the NHL’s most surprising breakout team. Can it last?It might actually suggest that PDO is a very valuable stat as it relates to how good a team is.
PDO is another stat people are referencing, which is also a proxy for luck. PDO is the sum of a team’s five-on-five shooting percentage and save percentage. For example, if your team is scoring on 8 percent of its shots at five-on-five and your goalies are stopping 92 percent of shots (.920 save percentage), you’d add those up and have a PDO of 100.
Over a large sample, most teams’ PDO settles around 100. Last year, for example, 25 of the NHL’s 32 teams had a PDO between 99 to 101.5. If a team’s PDO is way higher than 100, it can be a sign that they’ve been quite lucky. If a team’s PDO is way lower than 100, it can be a sign that they’ve been really unlucky.
Not really. Shooting percentages and save percentages can run to extremes, particularly over small samples. The Canucks are scoring at greater than a 15% clip right now. Even the Oilers only finished last season at around 12% (which is where the top teams each season usually land). This Canucks team does not have 3% better natural shooting talent than the Oilers team from last season. And Demko and DeSmith just are not collectively going to save 93.6% of the shots the rest of the season. This article has a pretty good example of how PDO is something that normalizes close to 100 for most teams in the long run: The Canucks are the NHL’s most surprising breakout team. Can it last?