News and Notes Thread 10: Where all media bias gets beaten to death

[tomdundo]

Holy **** the Matrix

SSSH. It didn't happen.



I was attempting to look at Chicago over the same time span for reference, just to make us look bad. But of course I can't simply use the tags from war-on-ice and make things simple.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/rWAoe8B.png

 

[What the Faulk]

Yeah, I have to print screen to paint, crop, and upload to imgur. The direct links to the web page don't even really work either. Most of the options are unselected.

But yeah, look at Chicago's axes. FF% runs all the way to 58 and the PDO 102 (which is going to be naturally a touch higher). And if we overlap on a game-by-game basis:

The dotted lines' colors are off but the right ones should be obvious.

 

[tomdundo]

Yeah, I have to print screen to paint, crop, and upload to imgur. The direct links to the web page don't even really work either. Most of the options are unselected.

But yeah, look at Chicago's axes. FF% runs all the way to 58 and the PDO 102 (which is going to be naturally a touch higher). And if we overlap on a game-by-game basis:

The dotted lines' colors are off but the right ones should be obvious.

Yeah, I figured it out once I took the red pill.



But yeah, your picture is really telling. Amazing what a roster that isn't total ass will do for you.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

I'm looking for a quote from JR that (I believe) he gave last year. He was discussing Ward and he said something about how they overplayed him early in his career and that's likely the reason why he suffered the injuries recently.

I can't seem to find it though. Anyone remember this?

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

setoguchi on waivers do it jr

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

setoguchi on waivers do it jr

I'm sure Dave is frothing at the mouth

 

[Blueline Bomber]

How the Canes Broke Cam Ward and Fixed Him Again

http://thehockeywriters.com/how-the-carolina-hurricanes-broke-cam-ward-and-fixed-him-again/

Yeah, I decided to write about Ward. Some of the stats I dug up are just hilarious. I can honestly say I don't think a goaltender has received less help, both in terms of shots faced and number of games being forced to start (due to a lack of a suitable backup) in quite some time.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Nikitin had more ice time last nite than Shea Weber.

#fancystats

 

[DaveG]

How the Canes Broke Cam Ward and Fixed Him Again

http://thehockeywriters.com/how-the-carolina-hurricanes-broke-cam-ward-and-fixed-him-again/

Yeah, I decided to write about Ward. Some of the stats I dug up are just hilarious. I can honestly say I don't think a goaltender has received less help, both in terms of shots faced and number of games being forced to start (due to a lack of a suitable backup) in quite some time.

Weird to say but it's probably unfair to lump Manny into that wheelhouse of rotating backups. He was only signed as an emergency when Ward went down to injury, and outperformed Peters (who wasn't bad but nowhere near ready) and VASTLY outperformed Michael "Fainting Goat" Leighton who is one of the few players we deservedly booed out of town. But had not Cam gotten hurt it's unlikely that Legace even registers here at all, and for what he did play here he acquitted himself quite well.

Also 5 to 1 says that guy that posted on your article is Pauser lol.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Yeah, I debated about adding Legace, but I figured if I didn't, someone would call me out on it.

 

[What the Faulk]

Because I was just surfing stats this morning, I came up with a few useless trivia questions. Can you answer them without cheating?

1. Since 2005-06, only two NHL forwards have skated more minutes than Eric Staal. Can you name them?

2. What two players are tied for the Hurricanes' lead in penalties drawn this year, and with how many?

3. Since 2005-06, who leads the Hurricanes in points/60 (minimum 1k minutes, all situations)?

4. Since 2005-06, what Hurricane leads the team in TOI%? (basically percentage of dressed games on the ice instead of the bench, minimum 1k minutes, all situations).

5. Since 2005-06, what defenseman leads the Hurricanes in all situations points/60? Even strength points/60? Both minimum 100 games.

 

[Anton Babchuk]

Because I was just surfing stats this morning, I came up with a few useless trivia questions. Can you answer them without cheating?

1. Since 2005-06, only two NHL forwards have skated more minutes than Eric Staal. Can you name them?

Ovechkin, Thornton

2. What two players are tied for the Hurricanes' lead in penalties drawn this year, and with how many?

Semin and Gerbe with 4

3. Since 2005-06, who leads the Hurricanes in points/60 (minimum 1k minutes, all situations)?

Whitney

4. Since 2005-06, what Hurricane leads the team in TOI%? (basically percentage of dressed games on the ice instead of the bench, minimum 1k minutes, all situations)

Pikinin

5. What defenseman leads the Hurricanes in all situations points/60? Even strength points/60? Both minimum 100 games.

Corvo, Sekera (not sure if he's played 100 games)

 

[Sens1Canes2]

Gonna say that the penalties drawn is more than that, only because I've seen Semin draw two in one game, AND I've missed several games.

 

[What the Faulk]

Ovechkin, Thornton

Semin and Gerbe with 4

Whitney

Pikinin

Corvo, Sekera (not sure if he's played 100 games)

Bolded the correct. Sekera has 96 and I set it at 100 because of who was 2nd on the list (that's a bit of a hint).

 

[Unsustainable]

Looking at our schedule, I only see 15 wins left for this season.

 

[What the Faulk]

Oops I forgot to give the answers for the trivia questions no on cared about.

1. Ovechkin, St. Louis
2. Semin and Gerbe with 9
3. Whitney
4. Pitkanen
5. Babchuck, Commodore

 

[Blueline Bomber]

There's no way #5 is correct.

I can maybe see Babchuk leading in all situation/60, since he didn't get a lot of time at even-strength, and his time on the PP was productive as hell.

But Commodore?

 

[Anton Babchuk]

it sounds right to me. commodore had ~25 ES points or so in 06-07, which was like 40% of his hcanes career.

 

[What the Faulk]

Also setting it at 100 games eliminates a lot of competition (this is everyone). Commodore got about 30 seconds of PP time per game and didn't play a ton of minutes in general.

EDIT: Actually, looking at it, it seems to count the partial Ottawa season all for Carolina. He got 2 assists in 26 games, so he may be even further ahead.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

Maniscalco seems to think things are looking up after the way November treated us. I guess he stopped watching 10 days into the month and doesn't realize we went 2-7-0 in the last nine games. Granted, I missed most of those and don't know how we looked, but I'm not exactly encouraged just yet.

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/hurricanes-trending-upward-after-slow-start/14237085/

 

[Blueline Bomber]

They played well in November, but most of the time, it didn't translate into wins. The San Jose game and the Florida game are prime examples of that. Dominate the game, but lose 1-0 because #CanesGonnaCane

 

[What the Faulk]

I see most of the grammatical errors from this morning are still there. Commas are not periods. Not that I'm one to talk, but I'm not getting paid big money to do this.

 

[rocky7]

I guess for fans somewhat hungry for information about the team have no alternative but to rely on Maniscalco and the few other clowns that *ahem*, "cover" the Carolina Hurricanes. Bush. League.

 

[Joe McGrath]

I see most of the grammatical errors from this morning are still there. Commas are not periods. Not that I'm one to talk, but I'm not getting paid big money to do this.

You think the editor of wral.com is?

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Big money in any kind of writing job isn't going to happen.