Interesting Info: Part XXII (Jackets-related "tidbits" here)

[Iron Balls McGinty]

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ho hum.. sigh

It's football season in Columbus. Mid week games always lag in attendance and Fridays/Saturday are for football in these parts. Attendance always picks up when football season ends.

 

[AnonCommentary]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857085314432377297

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857085314432377297

They folded the team??!!!

 

[Monstershockey]

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

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LOL insert obligatory Allen Iverson reference/meme/video here.

 

[Jovavic]

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ho hum.. sigh

Watch for the Pens to drop like a rock after their bandwagon fans realize the team sucks and won't be better for years

 

[koteka]

They folded the team??!!!

Moving to Quebec City. Porty is going to have to learn French or get a new gig.

 

[MoeBartoli]

I really don’t get why we “have” to trade Jiricek and I do not agree with them being too “patient” with him. Hes only 20 for gods sake.

For context, Porty’s reference to being too patient with Jiricek was also about having him sit in the press box. Porty feels he needed to be playing and Cleveland could have been on the table earlier.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Even if I've watched the game, I always watch the Sportnet recap. Unlike the NHL recap, there are no ads interrupting the highlights.

I noticed something very interesting in the comments recently; Columbus appears to be a very popular team in Russia. Many of the comments are in Russian, I checked other games and there aren't any Russian comments. Makes sense given how many the Jackets have, but thought it was interesting

 

[S1N4TR4]

 

[GoJackets1]

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Being in between the two Cup teams from last year? I’ll take it!

 

[MoeBartoli]

 

[AndBoomGoesTheCannon]

When was the last time we had a 3 game winning streak?

 

[Viqsi]

When was the last time we had a 3 game winning streak?

By my quick-and-dirty reckoning, March 2022. We've had lots of three-or-more-game points streaks in that period, tho, including one earlier this very season.

 

[CBJx614]

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If we can lock that D down...

 

[ViD]

By my quick-and-dirty reckoning, March 2022. We've had lots of three-or-more-game points streaks in that period, tho, including one earlier this very season.

That’s just sad

 

[Dr John Carlson]

I don't have a great place to put this, so I'll try here. Over on the History of Hockey forum, we're running a project where we try to rank the top goaltenders of all time. This means comparing and contrasting goaltenders from all eras of hockey, from all teams, from all leagues. It's obviously very difficult to do this as there's so much context that needs to be accounted for, which is why we do it - it's fun and we learn about history.

That's why I'm here, for context on one Sergei Bobrovsky, who's currently up for voting! Anything you Jackets fans can offer about him from his time in Ohio is wanted in the voting thread right here. Anything you got: stats, memories, anecdotes, it's all good. Or, if you just want to drop in and read the discussion, of which there's plenty from previous voting rounds, that's welcome too. Thanks!

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

Watching reruns of the Drew Carey Show on Plex.

 

[Cowumbus]

Win Sunday and you’re in a playoff spot…

 

[Viqsi]

Win Sunday and you’re in a playoff spot…

At the moment, by points percentage we're already there. (That said, if Boston beats the Pens tonight they'd jump ahead.)

 

[S1N4TR4]

what do you notice about this when it comes to our team?

 

[ViD]

Makes zero sense to me but whatever

 

[DankoCBJ]

Makes zero sense to me but whatever

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We had 0% chance (the athletic model) before the season so.. progress I guess?

 

[cbjthrowaway]

Makes zero sense to me but whatever

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dom's model spitting out this data makes sense to me (heavily relies upon data sample from the previous year), but it's journalistic malpractice to publish this data at face value and pass it off as "analysis" from dom himself.

the jackets aren't riding an unsustainably hot power play, or getting a crazy goaltending run. their 5v5 PDO isn't due for any regression (it's at 1.001, lol).

if dom was actually doing analytics rather than reporting (in the data sense, not journalistic) he would have dug deeper or added a huge caveat that the model essentially still thinks this is a pascal vincent team.

doing actual analysis on this would also uncover that their one stretch of bad play – the west coast trip – actually saw them have bad puck luck and happened without a key driver of offense in kent johnson.

there's so much to like about this blue jackets team – maybe it's not all sustainable, but there aren't any warning signs that the wheels are going to fall off, either. they have clear areas for improvement (goaltending, special teams) and capital to make moves. and at some point they'll get jenner back.

it's still early, but based solely on how they've played this year they've instilled more confidence as a potential bubble team than most of the names above them.

 

[Viqsi]

I'm inclined to institute a new "rule" - no posting anything generated, written, or otherwised sourced by or from Dom Luszczyszyn without explicitly citing it as being from him. Because some of us were sick of his bullshit years ago and have no desire to deal with it. It's like noting proposals or rumors by Eklund; the warning tag is necessary for those who don't want to waste time on him.

Seriously, that pigf***er has arguably singlehandedly done more harm to the acceptance and understanding of advanced stats and analytics than literally every single other pundit combined.