2018-2019 NHL Thread

[CarltonTheBear]

Media loooooooves its split stats. Makes it seem more advanced and analytical.

It was the first goal he scored all season in the 1st period of a Tuesday game.

 

[herman]

Media loooooooves its split stats. Makes it seem more advanced and analytical.

It was the first goal he scored all season in the 1st period of a Tuesday game.

1st goal in 17 road games --> 1 + 17 = 27 --> Lucic's jersey number
V. obvi.

 

[hockeyfan1]

Tyler Dellow, formerly of The Athletic, joins the New Jersey Devils front office providing his analytical expertise:

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[hockeyfan1]

Speaking of this future ?data revolution?...

Soccer is certainly ahead of hockey in using this data and Power has observed a bit of a tipping point over the past 12 to 18 months where teams are seeing the impact of the data and actually believe what can be done. The sport has moved beyond the questioning phase.

Hockey, as the NHL builds out its player tracking platform, is very much entering the questioning phase. And therein lies the potential advantage for teams that capitalize.

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[CarltonTheBear]

The top-4 goalies in save percentage (with a minimum of 40 GP) are all from 2 teams. Bishop (.933) and Khudobin (.926) in Dallas and Lehner (.928) and Greiss (.926). I wonder how the GMs handle that when it comes time to vote for the Vezina. Vasilevskiy seems to be the only goalie with a nomination locked up (and probably the win too), but after that it's a pretty wide open race.

 

[herman]

Storm Surges in the playoffs!

 

[Zee]

Are we all Columbus fans tonight?

 

[Guilt Trip]

Are we all Columbus fans tonight?

Yup

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Are we all Columbus fans tonight?

Hard to say. Do you want Columbus delivering that dagger, or the Leafs tomorrow night?

 

[bustaheims]

Hard to say. Do you want Columbus delivering that dagger, or the Leafs tomorrow night?

Yeah. I kinda want it to come down to Saturday - especially if the Ottawa-Columbus games stays close/tied for most of the night. Eliminating the Habs in Montreal would be great, and it would also be nice for the last game of the season to mean something. If Montreal still has a chance, that game will have playoff-like atmosphere and intensity.

On the other hand, I just don't want the Habs to have a shot at the playoffs.

 

[Zee]

Hard to say. Do you want Columbus delivering that dagger, or the Leafs tomorrow night?

Yeah. I kinda want it to come down to Saturday - especially if the Ottawa-Columbus games stays close/tied for most of the night. Eliminating the Habs in Montreal would be great, and it would also be nice for the last game of the season to mean something. If Montreal still has a chance, that game will have playoff-like atmosphere and intensity.

On the other hand, I just don't want the Habs to have a shot at the playoffs.

See that would be fun and all, but it's literally meaningless to the Leafs, sure they might want to knock them out but they won't go out of their way to try and win.  I don't want the Habs to have any life at all, I want them all down in the dumps because they were eliminated the night before and the crowd has nothing to cheer for.

 

[hockeyfan1]

Some playoff format changes coming in near future?...

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[Zee]

Some playoff format changes coming in near future?...

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Heard a lot of guys on the radio predicting it'll be back to 1 vs 8 when Seattle is in the league so this news makes sense.

 

[BermudaBudsFan]

Hard to say. Do you want Columbus delivering that dagger, or the Leafs tomorrow night?

Yeah. I kinda want it to come down to Saturday - especially if the Ottawa-Columbus games stays close/tied for most of the night. Eliminating the Habs in Montreal would be great, and it would also be nice for the last game of the season to mean something. If Montreal still has a chance, that game will have playoff-like atmosphere and intensity.

On the other hand, I just don't want the Habs to have a shot at the playoffs.

See that would be fun and all, but it's literally meaningless to the Leafs, sure they might want to knock them out but they won't go out of their way to try and win.  I don't want the Habs to have any life at all, I want them all down in the dumps because they were eliminated the night before and the crowd has nothing to cheer for.

Habs are out with  Columbus win tonight.

 

[Zee]

Hard to say. Do you want Columbus delivering that dagger, or the Leafs tomorrow night?

Yeah. I kinda want it to come down to Saturday - especially if the Ottawa-Columbus games stays close/tied for most of the night. Eliminating the Habs in Montreal would be great, and it would also be nice for the last game of the season to mean something. If Montreal still has a chance, that game will have playoff-like atmosphere and intensity.

On the other hand, I just don't want the Habs to have a shot at the playoffs.

See that would be fun and all, but it's literally meaningless to the Leafs, sure they might want to knock them out but they won't go out of their way to try and win.  I don't want the Habs to have any life at all, I want them all down in the dumps because they were eliminated the night before and the crowd has nothing to cheer for.

Habs are out with  Columbus win tonight.

That's a shame

༼ つ ͡? ͜ʖ ͡? ༽つ

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

Hard to say. Do you want Columbus delivering that dagger, or the Leafs tomorrow night?

Yeah. I kinda want it to come down to Saturday - especially if the Ottawa-Columbus games stays close/tied for most of the night. Eliminating the Habs in Montreal would be great, and it would also be nice for the last game of the season to mean something. If Montreal still has a chance, that game will have playoff-like atmosphere and intensity.

On the other hand, I just don't want the Habs to have a shot at the playoffs.

See that would be fun and all, but it's literally meaningless to the Leafs, sure they might want to knock them out but they won't go out of their way to try and win.  I don't want the Habs to have any life at all, I want them all down in the dumps because they were eliminated the night before and the crowd has nothing to cheer for.

Habs are out with  Columbus win tonight.

That's a shame

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https://twitter.com/TheFlintor/status/1114352670783889409

 

[Andy007]

I'm ok with this. I didn't want to see them clinch a spot and beat us at the same time, regardless of how little it really affects us. Surprised they made it that close; I was thinking bottom 5 team this year for sure.

 

[Guilt Trip]

I'm ok with this. I didn't want to see them clinch a spot and beat us at the same time, regardless of how little it really affects us. Surprised they made it that close; I was thinking bottom 5 team this year for sure.

That'll be next year lol. Be surprised if they have as good a year.

 

[herman]

McDavid went down with a leg injury in their final game of the season, clocked going about 42.8 km/h into the post.

https://twitter.com/Sportsnet960/status/1114727628303290369

X-rays were negative.

 

[Bullfrog]

I watched about 1/2 the Cgy/Edm game. My take-away: McDavid is a pretty darn good hockey player.