BonHoonLayneCornell
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It was a good night for sure. Ottawa wins and Montreal loses. I want more of that.
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Cat Herder
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Did you factor in tie breakers?
NYI max points is 96 (minus Ottawa's 81) = 15 .. but I think we need to add 1 more point to make it 16 so we do not have to worry about tie breakers.
If we do this to the rest, then the numbers would be
NYI 16
NYR 15
CBJ 17
MTL 17
Dionysus
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It's crazy how much they collapse to close out games. They don't play Stützle much with the opponents goalie pulled, and nobody else seems to be able to skate the puck out of the zone.
They are winning lots of close games which is nice. Next step is to start burying teams though. They have a lot of trouble playing aggressively in the 3rd with a lead.
Would love to see them hit teams with good counter attacks when the opponent starts activating their defence trying to push to make a comeback. Keep the structure, but look for chances to pounce rather than sitting back and flipping the puck out at every chance.
Alex1234
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Alf Silfversson
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I loosely factored in tiebreakers. For example we would almost certainly lose one to the NYR. The others I think we'd likely win, depending on how each team gets it's remaining points.
So for the Rangers the number reflects beating their max points by one. For the others it reflects a tie.
BigRig4
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If he hit it, it would've been "ice in veins veteran play right there".
Open shot, an opponent on the centre line. It was a good risk to take. He just missed, it happens.
Sens of Anarchy
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Much rather that than another one added to the countless Hamonic icings missing the open man.
Would have been applauded if he put it ..likely thought he would
Hotsam Batcho
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He didn't cross the blue line. You have to at least make the blue line to attempt that shot or make sure you make it.
BonHoonLayneCornell
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As long as we get the win in the end, I'm happy enough, but agreed, that's a little bit much for my liking and there should be some coaching adjustments to try to be a little more aggressive and avoid that.
He did. His only other option was to flip it in to avoid the icing but that would only shave off 10-15 seconds if executed perfectly. Either option is fine IMO.
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Micklebot
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He should have put to the open ice for Brady to chase imo, if Brady gets it you have a chance at the net, or to kill off more time, if he doesn't, you kill off 15 secs or so. That's a shot you take with a two goal lead
Statistically, going for the ENG there seems to be the better play:
www.shapshotshockey.com
Basic gist is that of all of the long-shot ENG attempts this year (239), 35.5% resulted in a goal, and of the remaining 100+, only 3 resulted in a goal against after the resulting faceoff.
Should NHL teams risk icing to shoot for the empty net?
Let's look at some of the numbers.
www.shapshotshockey.com
Basic gist is that of all of the long-shot ENG attempts this year (239), 35.5% resulted in a goal, and of the remaining 100+, only 3 resulted in a goal against after the resulting faceoff.
