GDT: Game # 78 - New York Rangers @ New York Islanders - 7:30pm EST - MSG (Nicholas Cage edition)

[NYR94]

Panarin putting up points like it's nothing

 

[Leonardo87]

Fox with 3 points tonight! Looking like Fox Noris tonight.

 

[Tob]

Strome will take $875,000 to keep playing with Strome, I'm convinced.

 

[RangersFan1994]

Career high for Panarin with 96 points

 

[Black Aces]

Good thing reaves is playing tonight? Right?

That will stop everytjing

Islanders havent done much.

Matt Martin quiet as hell

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Foxy with 3 points. Would be great if he goes into the playoffs hot.

 

[ArPanet]

4anarin

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

I hope we put up a 5 spot in the 3rd

 

[Nyr88nyg]

Run it up on these garbage cans

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

Strome will take $875,000 to keep playing with Strome, I'm convinced.

That would truly be wild. Always knew he loved playing with himself.

 

[Black Aces]

Career high for Panarin with 96 points

maybe 100 by the end of the game

 

[duhmetreE]

no it was members of this board lmfao

youre literally wrong. it was members of this board. Dom L never said anything like that.

"That’s where Gaudreau and Marner re-enter the picture. After an incredibly successful regular season for both superstar wingers, it’s up to them to show they can withstand the rigours of playoff hockey like never before. Prove the last times were aberrations. Prove they can keep their level of play in a tougher environment. Prove they belong by showing that elite finesse not only has a place come playoff time, but can thrive within it. Their success can help usher in a new era.

It’s not just those two either as there are other key players from playoff teams who also qualify in the bottom five percentile. Panarin, Grzelcyk, Spurgeon, Samuel Girard and Zuccarello all fall in the same boat as Gaudreau and Marner. They’re all worth paying attention to closely during this postseason.

Based on the chart above, it’ll be really interesting to see how certain teams fare come playoff time. Colorado, Florida and Toronto are similarly built with a high focus on speed and skill, but the question plaguing all three is whether any of those teams can win playoff-style hockey. Those same questions don’t arise for teams like Calgary, Boston or the Rangers who made a specific focus last offseason to become tougher to play against. Given the way the last few playoffs have shaken out, and that Panarin fits the Gaudreau-Marner mold, that may have been for a better reason than previously given credit for."

Examining the heavy hockey trend and whether it's the only path to a Stanley Cup

An in-depth look at how player playoff performance changes based on their relative size and physicality.

theathletic.com

Panarin fits the Gaudreau-Marner mold. Only difference is that Drury addressed the toughness/heavy issue. The things you often mock

Heavy hockey has often been ignored by stats-types in the past (myself included) due to the inverse link between puck possession and physicality. If it’s a choice between one or the other, puck possession wins, but it’s getting too difficult to ignore how big of a factor physicality has been over the last few playoffs. It’s time to start paying more attention to that side of the game.

Cognitive Dissonance coming through between the Analytics crew

 

[Doctyl]

Strome will take $875,000 to keep playing with Strome, I'm convinced.

Wish I got paid almost a million to play with myself

 

[JRinNYC]

Time to switch over to the CAR vs WPG game during intermission. Go Jets Go!!

 

[KennyWu]

This game is gonna end late. Already 5 past Varlamov

 

[Raspewtin]

Adam Fox has 72 points. that's pretty awesome

 

[will1066]

 

[Jauffre]

Wahlstrom literally trying to take Trouba and troubs just standing his ground lmao. Trouba would knock that kid's head off.

 

[Number 9]

The turnout from Islanders fans is awful. Worse fan base in the league behind AZ maybe.

 

[BleedBlueNYR]

This is what we should to every time against teams like the icelanders. Outclass them.

 

[Leonardo87]

Foxy with 3 points. Would be great if he goes into the playoffs hot.

 

[bouds]

Panarin is ridiculous, it’s good to see him finish strong, at times it felt like he was dealt a bad hand with his line mates, but right now he looks reborn.

 

[mas0764]

The odds Panarin reaches 100 just went up.

 

[JRinNYC]

Damn it. CAR just tied it 2-2 with 15:50 left in the 3rd.

 

[BleedBlueNYR]

The turnout from Islanders fans is awful. Worse fan base in the league behind AZ maybe.

They were all NYR fans until 1980. Biggest group of loser bandwagoners you'll ever see.