Seriously, high-end players have a sense for who is playing well and who isn't, as well as the ability to critique their own game (beyond what they say at pressers, which are mostly pointless).I think analytics has a place in sports, but how much I don't know. Like they said, hockey is fast, and it's one thing to say something after the fact, quite the other to do it in the heat of the battle. Hockey is FAST, and you always here that a player "has to slow the game down" to succeed.
I completely agree. Tocchet rides Kuemper right into the ground every season. He’s either short-sighted and gutless or short-sighted and dumb. Either way, same result. Just last season that behavior dropped us from 1st to worst. And he STILL didn’t learn. Several of us were begging for Kuemper to get a rest just before his injury last season and again just before his injuries this season. If us armchair QBs can see the trouble coming a mile away, why can’t Tocchet? He sucks.
It’s pretty basic common knowledge in all sports that this is a coaching responsibility. If it’s escaped your attention this long, I’m not going to be the one to help you see what’s plain as day.
Are you trying to tell us goalies are normal people? How do you feel vs do you want to quit and give up? To a professional athlete? Is there any possition in all of major sports that needs to be 100% than a dependable goalie? And to imply predicting injuries is impossible is ridiculous. Waiting for injuries to occur instead of precautionary is not a good philosophy for a coach.
I will say... in a year that I viewed as a "let's see what we got" year, I am pleasantly surprised. Yes there have been games in which they have looked completely outplayed, but still get results.
Athletes are competitive, want to play. Describe precautionary. It's easy talking about an injury after the fact, or not knowing all the facts on what a coach did or did not do. All players risk injury on every shift, and the more you play the greater risk of injury, and that goes for every single player on the team. Some players are more injury prone than others, and no one should know this better than the Yotes. Maybe RT should take precautionary measures and rest Garland, or Chick, or DVO?
It’s like this is the first season you’ve followed. If Garland, Chychrun or Dvorak played sixty minutes per game, yes they’d need a rest.
Correct. I absolutely don't understand how this has managed to escape your attention all of these years. It's baffling.
I like your optimism, but we're still a long shot to make the playoffs.
Based on where the 4th place team currently sits from a pt% standpoint, it will take 68 pts to secure the 4th place spot. We, therefore, need 41 pts over the remaining 31 games. Roughly 20 wins out of 31. Doable...but
edit: Of course that number could drop. The 4th place team in the Division last season had a 0.565 pt%. I'm no mathematician, but the fact that all games are within the division may change the calculus.
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In our case that hitting the backer boards behind the net 100%.
