Not too worried about the bounces. Sure the Avs got lucky. Having said that; we didn't get that third goal. No one else to blame but ourselves.
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Bobcat110
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Scoring has dried up. Other teams are shifting into "playoff gear" too and making it harder. The CBJ are only averaging 2.14 goals a game since trade deadline.
Interestingly, LA was average 2 goals a game for 13 games leading up to trade deadline, but have jumped to 3 goals a game in their 13 games since taking on 1/2 of Gaborik's salary. (not implying anything...may or may not be correlated..just found it interesting)
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There was one not long ago where Bob gave up a rebound and Joey was headed for the net covering the opposing forward. Puck went off the side of Joey's skate straight into the net.
Scoring has dried up. Other teams are shifting into "playoff gear" too and making it harder. The CBJ are only averaging 2.14 goals a game since trade deadline.
Interestingly, LA was average 2 goals a game for 13 games leading up to trade deadline, but have jumped to 3 goals a game in their 13 games since taking on 1/2 of Gaborik's salary. (not implying anything...may or may not be correlated..just found it interesting)
Carter, Gaborik, and we're also going to hand them Horton and they'll go on a tear next season
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Heinze 57
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Yeah that was Nyquist's second goal last Tuesday. (BTW, we've had a Tuesday home game five straight weeks now and we'll end with another one next week. WTF NHL?)
So you see an accidental goal a handful of times a season. That it happened three times in fifteen minutes last night is almost comical. If we were out of it or if we'd already clinched a playoff spot I would laugh at that.
I have a friend who's not a hockey fan and he says he can't get into hockey because "everything that happens looks like an accident. It's too many random bounces". It's hard to argue with him after games like last night.
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Bobcat110
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I think Americans are just conditioned that their sports have to have moments of pause and reflect within them to interpret what just happened and time for anticipation of the next play. Baseball - One pitch, then reviews of how it was a strike, or a ball or if a hit, three angles of runner running bases and fielder fielding the ball. Football - one 8 second play, and a couple minutes of multiple angle replays and discussion on previous play and what next play may be. Basketball - timeout after every play within last 3 minutes of play - lots of pauses for free throws. Golf - yawn. Auto racing - 1/2 hour of left turns and droning on by some Waltrip announcer, then an accident to enjoy many replays of - then 1/2 hour of more left turns - rinse and repeat.
Hockey's pretty much non-stop up and down the ice and maybe a little too much for those who like the time to interpret what they're watching.
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Hockey does have a lot of continuous play compared to other sports like Baseball and Football. However, there are many stoppages of play like when the goalie covers the puck or on icings.
I think it more comes down to parity and ability. For instance, you don't score many goals when a goalie has an uninterrupted view of a shot, so teams have to create traffic and create deflections/bounces. How many hockey games go to OT, come down to a lucky bounce or a call going one way or the other compared to other sports. It's really hard to gain the zone and maintain possession without playing a chippy style of dumping, chasing, digging the puck out, and winning board battles. This seems to come from the current phase that the NHL is in with regards to letting a lot of grabbing, slashing, holding, and slowing the play down.
I think it more comes down to parity and ability. For instance, you don't score many goals when a goalie has an uninterrupted view of a shot, so teams have to create traffic and create deflections/bounces. How many hockey games go to OT, come down to a lucky bounce or a call going one way or the other compared to other sports. It's really hard to gain the zone and maintain possession without playing a chippy style of dumping, chasing, digging the puck out, and winning board battles. This seems to come from the current phase that the NHL is in with regards to letting a lot of grabbing, slashing, holding, and slowing the play down.
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If you don't trivialize the importance of luck in your sport- justifying it w/ pseudo intellectual cliche about making your own luck etc-, the brand suffers.
If you don't trivialize the importance of luck in life- justifying it w/ pseudo intellectual cliche about making your own luck etc- conservatism dies.
This can't happen.
The kind of goal that bounces in off your own guy I think happens more than a few times a year on average. Maybe 10-20 times? Still crazy to have 3 in one game.
As far as luck in hockey, yeah we got almost too much of it (Luck defined here as purposeless factors beyond anyone's control). Drives me nuts sometimes, but it probably makes it more interesting and exciting at times knowing anything can happen. It also drives me nuts that some people refuse to acknowledge luck, they think every win is because of what you did and every loss is because of what you did (see any GDT). Not so, in hockey or in life.
I do like the phrase "make your own luck", although its an oxymoron in the technical sense. It does pay try and see if you get lucky. I don't think the Avs made their own luck last night though. They hardly had anything going. The few pucks they threw towards the net at the end of the game all bounced in.
