WeaponOfChoice
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Legalized gambling is a bad idea. You can build that casino over my dead body. Blah blah blah2 words folks
Legalized gambling
Legalized gambling is a bad idea. You can build that casino over my dead body. Blah blah blah2 words folks
Legalized gambling
What would Datsyuk do
Nothing wrong with that. But it skews the scoring stats.Most teams are pulling goalies with around 2 minutes left nowadays because analytics told that's the way if you want to change something. Naturally, if you are going to play with an empty net twice as long, opponents will score into it many more times. Not to mention that last minutes used to be given to "shutdown lines" to handle on the defensive side of things who would just get the puck out of the zone and change, shooting at an empty net was almost taboo. While now we often see top guys on the ice whose primary focus is to get that empty netter which ends the game.
Same way scoring stats were "skewed" by goalie equipment, the dead puck era, every single rule change, etc. Scoring stats are not the goal. I have to say when somebody is that worried about "stats" it really raises the question of why they care so much about those.Nothing wrong with that. But it skews the scoring stats.
Exactly. It can be advantageous just as much as it can be against you so people who complain about its impact on gambling really are either sore losers or people who don't know first thing about betting to begin with.Gambling…I admit I put wagers on games ($20-$50 a week depending if I‘m up early in the week and using house money) and while it’s a slow roll, live betting a team who’s up by one with 5 minutes left to win by 1.5 is pretty successful. I honestly don’t think gambling is influencing this part of the game, if anything it frustrates the big betters as it introduces more variability and makes nailing down a spread or over/under number more difficult.
What would Brett Hull do with that?
Chances of scoring goal with 2 minutes left are well less than i think if you dont pull goalie.Let me put it this way.
If you're trailing by one but don't pull the goalie for the last 2 minutes, your chances of scoring might be 10%, same with the opponent's, with 80% of no goal. So 80% you lose by 1, 10% you lose by 2, 10% you tie the game.
But if you do pull the goalie for the last 2 min, it might look something more like: your chances of scoring 20%, opponent chances of scoring 60%, chances of no goal 20%. So 20% you lose by 1, 60% you lose by 2, 20% you tie the game.
It's unimportant whether you lose by 1 goal or 2 goals. But having twice the chance of tying the game in the final 2 minutes should be worth the risk of getting a goal scored against you, because if the status quo is maintained, you lose.
Of course, it's not quite this simple, because if you pull the goalie at 2min left and the opponent scores an empty netter against you at 1:40, then for these last 1:40, your chances of tying the game will probably be lower than it would have if you never pulled the goalie. It gets pretty complicated, but even then, pulling the goalie relatively early should be correct.
Really interesting analysis. Well done, OP.I think it's a positive thing because it makes gamblers mad and my favorite player likes to score empty netters.
Me and @alko was making making a joke, m8Hull famously avoided scoring into empty nets. His career ENG scored was ZERO.
Poor example.
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Down 2 goals and on the powerplay it would start making sense at the beginning of the third period.I want to see a new big balls meta where trailing teams pull their goalie as soon as possible in the third because it would be absurd.
Me and @alko was making making a joke, m8
Can you make a thread dedicated to old stories like thisNo worries. It's just interesting that anyone would associate ENG with Brett Hull. There's 2 things Hully famously wouldn't do. Score into empty nets and serve penalties.
The Blues were called for a too many men on the ice penalty and Head Coach Mike Keenan instructed Hull to serve the penalty.
Hull responded by telling Keenan he doesn’t serve penalties. Keenan then told Hull again to go serve the penalty and once again Hull said I don’t serve penalties.
The ref skates over to the bench yelling we need someone to get in the box. Hull’s teammates began saying "just go Hullie!"
Finally Hull hopped over the boards chinstrap unbuttoned, dragging his stick behind him as he took his time and slowly skated to the box.
After the penalty expired Hull stayed in the box for an extra 2-3 seconds while the door was open. He finally came out just as the puck came right in his direction.
Hull would have had an easy breakaway but instead stepped over the puck and slowly skated back to the bench.
In one motion he jumped over the boards and looked right at Keenan and said, “ I told you I don’t serve penalties.”
Actually, goal differential is the tie breaker when it comes to determining position in the standings and can be the difference between getting into the playoffs or not.Because coaches have realized that losing a game by 2 or 3 goals is no different in the standings than losing that game by 1 goal...
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