Post-Game Talk: Hail Stan

[OthmannOut]

one of our best games finishing and Laffy had two of them, lol

 

[Kovalev27]

I don’t have a lot of use for rempe. Fun having him out there for now but he’s not a player.

 

[Gluten Free Breadman]

 

[romba]

It aint easy playing on the highest level. Good thing they're compensated for it nicely.

 

[Cmox]

It's like they never been asked questions before. I guess that's what happens when no one cares about your team for a number of years?

 

[Cmox]

Biz and Whitney were on the side of the Rangers hitting game last night. Rangers caught a lot of eyes last night in a different sense.

 

[Row I Goon]

Hmmmm

a lot of words said

but all I heard was “waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah”

 

[will1066]

Pretty close race between Connor Mackey (Jan 27 @ Ottawa, 7-2 win, 2nd win of this 9-game streak) and Matthew Rempe (Feb 22 @ NJ, 5-1 win) for single most-impactful game performance by a call-up.

 

[Machinehead]

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Looks like the Devils outdid us low % shots. Considering the score for 1/3 of the game and the powerplay time on ice differential (we scored like 5 seconds into one of ours). The game is pretty damn close to even using Vali’s numbers. We just finished better and had better goaltending.

Yeah "pretty damn close" I'm on board with.

Joe was talking like we ran them out of the building.

 

[Levitate]

I don’t have a lot of use for rempe. Fun having him out there for now but he’s not a player.

I'm not sure we've seen enough of him out there to know that yet. He seems to do a decent job forechecking but dunno if he can keep the cycle going well enough yet.

 

[HolyHagelin]

Yeah "pretty damn close" I'm on board with.

Joe was talking like we ran them out of the building.

It never appeared as though the devils were even close to stepping up. They looked like whipped puppies the whole game.
The Rangers *did* run them out of the building.

 

[bhamill]

You can hit those guys, just don't hit them primarily in the head. League doesn't care if you blow up a guy who wasn't looking as long as your hit was mainly through their body and not the head

This is just how the league looks at stuff these days.


lol why so we can watch Reaves try to catch anyone and then make a big show about him trying to wrestle Rempe and not get punched in the head

Rempe’s hit WAS through the body it’s just that Bastian was leading with his head. Rempe put his whole body on Bastian’s whole body. It wasnt just some head shot. Thats the point. No one is arguing you should just be allowed to target someone’s head because they are hunched over, it was body on body.
So you’re saying you can’t hit a guy if you can’t avoid his head, which he is leading with… it’s a license for players to just skate head first, head down and they are basically untouchable.

 

[Rangers in 7]

I need to know who the 10 people that didn’t vote for laf and the 15 people that didn’t vote for shesty are.

 

[Ruggs225]

I didnt vote for shesty.

I voted laf, panarin, trocheck… that line was amazing all night.

Shesty would be #4. He really wasnt tested most of the game. Alot of very easy saves. He was good, but others i felt were more deserving

 

[aufheben]

 

[SnowblindNYR]

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The Devils didn't even have 43 total shots much less even strength shots.

 

[Machinehead]

It never appeared as though the devils were even close to stepping up. They looked like whipped puppies the whole game.
The Rangers *did* run them out of the building.

Scoreboard is a hell of a drug.

 

[Machinehead]

This reminds me of that time we beat the Predators like 7-0 or whatever it was and they beat us in xG and everyone was like "HURPA DURRRR *chortle* STATTZZZ SUX!!!"

Nobody is saying you can't enjoy a game we won by a lot of goals.

Your enjoyment of the game does not mean you get to say "well, we should never take stats seriously because of my emotions."

 

[romba]

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Look at the email, it’s called ‘ineffectivemath’ for a reason

 

[Machinehead]

This also reminds me of the Carolina game that we lost 6-1 after they scored 6 goals on 6 decent chances the whole game.

That was one of the most toxic GDT/PGT's of the year and I maintain that we played well in that game.

So it's not about negativity.

 

[will1066]

The Devils didn't even have 43 total shots much less even strength shots.

Shot attempts

 

[PuckLuck3043]

This reminds me of that time we beat the Predators like 7-0 or whatever it was and they beat us in xG and everyone was like "HURPA DURRRR *chortle* STATTZZZ SUX!!!"

Nobody is saying you can't enjoy a game we won by a lot of goals.

Your enjoyment of the game does not mean you get to say "well, we should never take stats seriously because of my emotions."

And rightly so. That was a beatdown and once again the "deserve to win meter" was absolute trash.

 

[DialUp]

And rightly so. That was a beatdown and once again the "deserve to win meter" was absolute trash.

I think the point is that on outlier games like winning 7-0 but losing the xG means that if the team plays the same way for 10 games they would lose like 6 out of 10 times. There's still 4 wins in that stat, which that Nashville game was.

Devils had some decent chances, Igor was good on them. The difference was that the Rangers capitalized on their chances AND they capitalized on some broken plays via bad goaltending and defense. Mika's goal was a brain fart on NJD's part, Laf's first was a terrible defensive f'up. I liked NYR's energy, I want to see that against every team.

 

[Machinehead]

And rightly so. That was a beatdown and once again the "deserve to win meter" was absolute trash.

We scored on six consecutive shot attempts in that game. That's literally one in a million. You'll win the lottery before you see that again. Why is it such a crazy notion that sometimes every chance goes in? (Or doesn't)

Again, nobody is saying you have to be grumpy after a big win. All I'm saying is that one result doesn't devalue statistics as a practice, and I don't care what happened.

I didn't bring it up to say we played a bad game. Other people brought it up just to say "lol at math" because they're still mad some of their favorites weren't that good.

It's so exhausting that we have to have this stupid f***ing referendum on analytics every time we score 5 goals on 6 chances.

It's been proven right way more than it's been proven wrong but nobody is interested in that.

 

[DialUp]

Would love to know the rate of games that are high scoring and lopsided that are lucky for the winning team vs in line with xg.

Meaning, how many laughers are truly dominant wins rather than goof ball play.