GDT: Game 17: Sharks @ Flyers 4pm

[hockeyCEO]

2 - 1 Flyers

 

[OverTheLine]

Sharks 2-1
Eklund, Toffoli
Couturier

I get the development day stuff, but from a business perspective it's not good for getting the Sharks out of the poor attendance, low fan engagement period we've been in. Celebrini gets eyes on screens and butts in seats.

 

[Juxtaposer]

Sharks 2-1
Eklund, Toffoli
Couturier

I get the development day stuff, but from a business perspective it's not good for getting the Sharks out of the poor attendance, low fan engagement period we've been in. Celebrini gets eyes on screens and butts in seats.

If you're going to do Celebrini development days, I'd hazard a guess that they'll be mostly away games.

 

[209]

3-2 sharks
Granlund, Fabian, MACK
michkov, Tippett

 

[MackAttack71]

Sharks 2 (Smitty / Gecko)
Flyers 3 (Mitch / Konecny / Tippett)

 

[TheBeard]

I'm surprised he didn't pick one of his amazing linemates to watch to be honest

"I like to watch Luke Kunin"

 

[The Nemesis]

"I like to watch Luke Kunin"

Nobody likes to watch Luke Kunin. Not even his own wife.

 

[LadyStanley]

FWIW Dan and Drew (Morning Skate) expect Celebrini to play.

 

[PattyLafontaine]

SNOG
Sharks 2 (Celebrini, Smith)
Flyers 1 (Michkov)

 

[YUPPY 2 7 10 11]

Alright, Let's authorize "Development Days" = DD from going forward.

 

[Le Grand Quebecois]

SNOG
Sharks 4 (Celebrini, Smith, Toffoli, Eklund)
Flyers 3 (Mitchkov x2, Konecny)

 

[BaileyMacTavish]

Mack status is all over the place but how am I getting a Mack will play update from Kurz and not our beat writes lol

 

[Star Platinum]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1856018017429156097

Huh

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

Mack status is all over the place but how am I getting a Mack will play update from Kurz and not our beat writes lol

Cuz Kurz loves you

 

[TheBeard]

Alright, Let's authorize "Development Days" = DD from going forward.

Logan is on his 472nd development day.

 

[gaucholoco3]

If I'm putting myself in the org's shoes, and parroting what they've said, the reason for the dev plan is to minimize injury first and foremost.

Injury happens typically with heavy workload in a short period of time. Despite him missing 10 games, there are 4 games in 7 days this week.

I would have Smith miss one game (yesterday) and Celebrini miss the next (today) so that they can both play 3 games, and we have both of them for the hardest game (Rangers), and the last game on the road trip (Pens).

This is why I guessed Celly might be out... which would be sad. But makes sense, and also has minimal impact on the lineup. I wonder if they have data from his practice session or some kind of PT / physical test to determine whether he goes this evening... otherwise, not sure why they would have to wait until the afternoon to determine if he's going to be in the lineup or not.

EDIT: Timely, here's an article in The Athletic about Catapult, the data tracking service that 80% of NHL/AHL teams are now using, measuring workload, injury recovery, etc. There's probably a better place to share this, but here are some highlights:

• Teams target 4.5 "games" worth of workload per 7 day period, or "1,000 player load"
• It's not just about minimizing workload, actually for some players it's about increasing practice workload since they're not getting it in game
• The tech is voluntary, and some players love it and some players don't like it
• It's especially focused on for return to injury
• The workload metric is a build-up from every movement on ice (every direction and down/up) so you can also see, e.g. when returning from injury, how close to 100% the player is on stride strength and L/R balance, for example

So, yeah, if I had to guess, maybe they are making sure Macklin's load wasn't too high at practice and/or analyzing performance related to injury recovery/ trying to get predictive on injury vulnerability. Or, there's some real-world physical test to measure mobility/strength he has to go thru post-nap or something.

It would make sense for the Sharks to do this as the Warriors and NBA have been using this type of data for years to give players maintenance days, and the Sharks now have a very obvious connection to the Warriors now.

I think he should sit. It is a long season and career. They have stated by the second half they will play all the games so it makes sense to rest him on back to backs to make sure he gets to the second half healthy.

 

[Chinaski89]

Sharks 3 - Zetts, Toffoli, Celly
Flyers 2 - Michkov, Konecny

 

[gaucholoco3]

If you're going to do Celebrini development days, I'd hazard a guess that they'll be mostly away games.

This is most definitely the plan. Besides the fact that most B2B’s are on the road anyways.

 

[mogambomoroo]

SNOG:
Sharks 7 (Celebrini, Smith, Sturm, Ceci, Eklund, Zetterlund, Kunin)
Flyers 2 (Sanheim, Konecny)

 

[67 others]

Celebrini has had enough time off with injury recently that it's in his best interest to play more.

 

[vortexy]

Our fresh prince comes out tonight and shuts people up about the Michkov>Smith talks. Sharks 4-2 Smith x2, Liljegren, Celebrini

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

So...

is that guy playing?

 

[67 others]

So...

is that guy playing?

Source close to sharks said yes 15 minutes ago, so hopefully

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

Source close to sharks said yes 15 minutes ago, so hopefully

is that source someone "way way inside"?

 

[hohosaregood]

Sharks 5-1

I expect Kurz to trash at least one of these teams in his tweets