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2018-2019 NHL Thread

When to pull or when not to pull the goaltender:  Of Malcolm Gladwell's "Revisionist History" (podcast) & the analytical, statistical, and mathematical model used by two math whizzes in determining the above...

For subscribers to The Athletic:
[tweet]1043922443516153856[/tweet]

For non-subscribers:
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/27-malcolm-gladwell-s-12-rules-for-life -- click on link in the webpage entitled "Pulling the Goalie: Hockey and Investment Implications"

Or just click here:  (PDF or download format)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3132563
 
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What a magnificent debut:
https://twitter.com/conorryan_93/status/1044377116748451846
https://twitter.com/philabcoulter/status/1044372506025644032
https://twitter.com/nickmaraldo/status/1044377295161634817
https://twitter.com/orangeandsass/status/1044372945802588166
 
Oh noes, you must all suffer with me.

https://twitter.com/bigseanq/status/1044295989820092419
https://twitter.com/grittynhl/status/1044410535037620225
 
https://twitter.com/GrittyNHL/status/1044383577666998272

You know I was starting to get on board with Gritty but an official NHL account associating themselves with Barstool on the same day THIS article comes out is pretty disappointing:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-barstool-sports-culture-of-online-hate-they-treat-sexual-harassment-and-cyberbullying-as-a-game
 
cabber24 said:
Nik the Trik said:
Shea Theodore signed. 7 years/5.2 AAV
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Wow, seems high, how much is Gardiner worth 7M? I don't want Gardiner at his market price.
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Vegas is in a different team cap situation though as their highest paid player will be $7M when Patcioretty's contract kicks in next season.  They can afford to give him a bit more to bet on the player.  Maybe in a few years it looks like a good deal if he progresses.
 
Probably should have come in closer to $4.5m but who am I to call George McPhee a bad GM? His record speaks for himself.

Probably won't be bad in a couple years.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
You know I was starting to get on board with Gritty but an official NHL account associating themselves with Barstool on the same day THIS article comes out is pretty disappointing:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-barstool-sports-culture-of-online-hate-they-treat-sexual-harassment-and-cyberbullying-as-a-game
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Form the founder of Deadspin, Will Leitch:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/what-fresh-kind-of-hell-is-barstool-sports.html

It does seem like the piece ?which didn?t actually provide a ton of new information for anyone who has been paying attention, but is so well-organized that the case it makes against the site is overwhelming ? might be a bit of a tipping point for the site. Barstool partners who had only been paying casual attention as long as the Millennial Ad Dollars were rolling in may finally recognize the monsters they?ve been dealing with. (That they, and we, may only now be reaching this point, because a white man has written about it in a major publication, when women have been telling us about Barstool for years, is its own indictment ? of myself, as well.)
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How disappointed are you that Rielly and Matthews both follow Barstool/Portnoy on Twitter?
 
herman said:
How disappointed are you that Rielly and Matthews both follow Barstool/Portnoy on Twitter?
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They're in their early 20's and when I was that age I definitely read some sites that, if they weren't as toxic as Barstool is with regards to harassment, definitely splashed around in some of the same sexist waters as barstool.

That said if you're going to be a hockey fan you more or less need to make your peace with the fact that most of these guys are meatheads and assume they are until they establish otherwise.
 
Nik the Trik said:
herman said:
How disappointed are you that Rielly and Matthews both follow Barstool/Portnoy on Twitter?
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They're in their early 20's and when I was that age I definitely read some sites that, if they weren't as toxic as Barstool is with regards to harassment, definitely splashed around in some of the same sexist waters as barstool.

That said if you're going to be a hockey fan you more or less need to make your peace with the fact that most of these guys are meatheads and assume they are until they establish otherwise.
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That?s fair. I?ve said similar in the past what with their education paths veering straight into their very white, male-dominated careers. They are in the exact demographic these groups target (Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro as well).
 
herman said:
How disappointed are you that Rielly and Matthews both follow Barstool/Portnoy on Twitter?
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Until proven otherwise I'm gonna go ahead and assume they don't find the targeted harassment of women (and all the other crap Portnoy does) hilarious, but yeah I do think anyone who supports them in any way deserves scrutiny. Even if it's just to a small degree. Personally I'm obviously well past the point of viewing hockey players as heroes (except SDA, naturally) so I don't exactly hold their personal beliefs to a very high standard.
 
herman said:
That?s fair. I?ve said similar in the past what with their education paths veering straight into their very white, male-dominated careers. They are in the exact demographic these groups target (Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro as well).
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Sure, except from what I know about those two guys a big chunk of their appeal is the superficial veneer of intellectualism that they cover their retrograde nonsense in. With most hockey players I'd imagine that would come off as bookish and, to be fair, that's the real sort of lunkhead demographic barstool seems to embrace.
 
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