Post-Game Talk: Oilers win the battle but lose the war against their arch nemesis…

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That will clearly teach him not to do it again!
NHL's DOPS is such a crock of shit lmao.
Kempe makes 5.5M annually, but that 5k will surely hurt him.
George Parros, f*** off.
Hate parros but this is a negotiated amount with the union, he can’t do more.
 
If that were only true. Gary's wet dream would be to suspend McDavid if he even got near any of his darlings.
Yup. He wants Oilers failure as it increases the chances of McD leaving for greener pastures down south.

Think of all of the league sabotage against us:

Chiarelli draft picks
Keith retirement cap hit sabotage

I can't wait until they somehow sabotage our ltir cap plans. They've already announced that there will be an investigation lol
 
Something like that happens almost every game
Yah sometimes when guys are challenging for a puck and engaged in a battle. This wasn't that, Kempe came in after the puck had left just to take a dirty run at McD. It's a dirt bag play and can easily turn into an injury, they really need to start suspending guys for it.
 
Just some additional research to add to what I think is implicitly true analyzing the 2 on 1 on Stu last night:

This article also denotes that Pass Location and East-West One timers are not considered in these XGF models:

"So when new data, new shot information, becomes available from NHL they run it through the code and show you xG value, but it will be only about 80% accurate prediction, in addition to all inaccuracies of shot registration by NHL, to tell how probable was that shot to become a goal.

For example, when the model says shot had 2% or 0.02 xG value in reality chances were somewhere between 1.6% and 2.4% and it was still possible that shot will go in on any given shot like that.

Another example, let’s say shot was in close and the model shows 40% chance of scoring, 0.40 xG value. In reality it was somewhere between 32% and 48% chance but model can’t say exact because it’s missing information/attributes/features like: was the goalie screened, was it cross crease pass for “back door one timer” or where goalie or opposition player were located. At the same time commercial (non-public) models will have some of those additional features and will narrow the range saying that this shot had between 34% and 46% chance to become a goal."


Here's another article:

"Perhaps the biggest gap is pre-shot movement. We know that passes before a shot affect the quality of the scoring chance, but the pbp data does not include them."


Wow... I CANNOT believe that something as fundamental as East-West pass (distance, speed) to a one-timer is not factored in to xG models.

That's absolute hogwash.

I'm all for advanced stats, but this just shows how much they are in their infancy when it comes to goaltending.

Eye-test and error assessment for me. Goalies (just like players) make plenty of errors per night, if you can't see an error on a given goal, you gotta give the benefit of the doubt to the guy making millions. The best goalies stand up to this assessment and eye-test... the worst ones show you enough errors to let you pass judgement.
 
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Yup. He wants Oilers failure as it increases the chances of McD leaving for greener pastures down south.

Think of all of the league sabotage against us:

Chiarelli draft picks
Keith retirement cap hit sabotage

I can't wait until they somehow sabotage our ltir cap plans. They've already announced that there will be an investigation lol

Got us with McLellan too. 2 picks penalty for reworking our GM/coach with people that were fired on expiring deals using a rule that I think only existed for a year.

I will say though, many GM's would have fought it, like Lucky Lou does every time. As usual we just smiled and said "OK!". Clearly the league thought the rule was stupid.
 
Wow... I CANNOT believe that something as fundamental as East-West pass (distance, speed) to a one-timer is not factored in to xG models.

That's absolute hogwash.

I'm all for advanced stats, but this just shows how much they are in their infancy when it comes to goaltending.

Eye-test and error assessment for me. Goalies (just like players) make plenty of errors per night, if you can't see an error on a given goal, you gotta give the benefit of the doubt to the guy making millions. The best goalies stand up to this assessment and eye-test... the worst ones show you enough errors to let you pass judgement.
I agree. It’s definitely a huge omission. And it’s something that needs to be considered when assessing goalie performances on a single game basis. XGF will tell you Kuemper outplayed Skinner in that game. The same Kuemper who was not challenged with as sure fire a goal as that 2 on 1, and that same Kuemper who let in a goal to Stu’s 0 goals. Now if Kuemper had made a miraculous save on that tough McDavid shot off the Nurse rebound, I’d give it to him, but he didn’t. The GSAX in this game ended up 2.15 for Kuemper and 2.05 for Stu, that wrong assessment of only 6% chance on Stu’s 2 on 1 explains that difference, proper assessment of the danger on that 2 on 1 would have put Stu ahead, where he belongs. For a single game I would trust an informed observer like yourself assessment over xGF.
 

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