I was just talking with a few friends, and I came to the realization that Krug may not be out long term. If he had a torn ACL/MCL, they probably would have announced that he was having season ending surgery, so hopefully its just a sprain and he's able to rejoin if we make it far enough
You have to unload Scandella. That's basically it for keeping Leddy. Or you let Perron walk, which might be unavoidable based on what's coming after next season.
Nah, Krug was a desperation move that has worked well when he's not injured. Leddy was probably the 3rd option we were hoping for, but he has fit in really well here. Having said that, Scandella seemed to play well with Parayko initially, but he's not consistent enough. I don't know the analytics for the Parayko-Scandella pairing when he first came over, but the eye test with Leddy is obvious and if I had to guess, his analytics also reflect him to be a positive defensive player.But guys! Leddy sucks at d and he was a desperation move by Armstrong. Who should be fired btw!
I went into the series prepared to lose actually. I thought that Kaprizov would torch us, or something.
They shouldn't even come home.
Then we should just sweep them.
That's a hard learned lesson but one I've heard over time. You have to change your cheering routine. It sucks, but yeah...good luck.
People like him moved the line to +140 Blues before the series started, which was an insane betting line given how many edges the Blues owned heading into it, all of which proved significant in the series.
That doesn't concern me at all. The glut of talent we have in the middle 6 has made it a challenge to give many of our forwards enough ice time.
Advanced stats will NEVER be able to account for ALL the different factors that go into creating a result on the ice, especially because of the way the result changes in different combinations of those factors when they occur together. It's NOT that the computor can't recreate those interactions accurately. It's because the Human mind can't think of all those interactions and recognise them by the eye test to understand exactly how they interact together, so those interactions can be programmed into the simulation. For that reason, "the eye test" taken by a lifelong hockey player and student of the game will be a necessary component of an analysis that also looks at advanced and basic statistics. That, combination analysis ("educated"/traditional analysis) will be the best analysis to discern how effective players and teams are, and often make up for the missing factors the programmers fail to include in their simulations.
I'm pretty sure I heard or read somewhere that the public models don't have all the stats and data points that the teams have. The NHL only releases all of the data and stats to the individual teams so I think they have a better internal models than the public ones. So while the public stats as a whole have fairly accurate predictions, they are missing a some data that is not available to them.
