The way that little whiny priick flippantly throws his helmet on the ground for some plebe to pick up pissses me off.
Seems more like he's planning on returning, and thinks that getting hauled to the room sucks, so he chucked his helmet with intention of picking it up himself on his way back to the bench. But I could be wrong. Probably am. F-him.
LOL. The hf Oiler room is in total meltdown over T-Mac. I guess he called a timeout with the lead and the Sabres goalie pulled for no apparent reason. Then they scored. Other people they hate - Letestu, Hendricks, Nuge.
Originally Posted by McFuhryous Chad Johnson is reminding me of what Dwayne Roloson did for the Oilers. Career backup, bounced around the league, finds a home on a mediocre team and becomes a starter. He has the ability to not steal just one point but both points just about every time he starts. Aside from the 8-3 anamoly against the Ducks, they're winning alot of low scoring 1 goal games because of him.
Barring any injury to him, Calgary is suddenly a threat for a playoff spot in my opinion.
Originally Posted by McFlyingV Looks like Johnny and (by causation) Monahan are waking up. If Calgary wins tonight they're only 2 points back of the oilers with 1 more game played. Sad to think this team has pissed away at least 5 points in the final 2-3 minutes of games this season.
Yeah, and if we'd had our poop in a group to start the season and not pissed away points to those idiots they'd be the ones looking up at us. I'm still choked that Gulutzan was wildly unprepared to start the season.
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Yeah, and if we'd had our poop in a group to start the season and not pissed away points to those idiots they'd be the ones looking up at us. I'm still choked that Gulutzan was wildly unprepared to start the season.
Saying he was unprepared isn't fair. The majority of new coaches go through a rough start for about 20 games. Even Pittsburgh did last year before going on to win the cup
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LOL? The hf Oiler room is in total meltdown over T-Mac. I guess he called a timeout with the lead and the Sabres goalie pulled for no apparent reason. Then they scored. Other people they hate - Letestu, Hendricks, Nuge.
To their credit some of them fully acknowledge that this team would be 2010/11 Oilers bad if not for McDavid.
There was one in the Flames GT tonight actually. Calling out Johnny's supposed over the top celly (? didn't really see one) on his goal. CP replied with a fitting Yakupov Fleury-esque celly (I mean take your pick with the Oilers, right?).
Probably because Oilers broadcast flipped over to the Flames game right after losing in OT just to see the tie up Gaudreau goal. Must've been extra salt in the wound for fans up north tonight.
LOL. The hf Oiler room is in total meltdown over T-Mac. I guess he called a timeout with the lead and the Sabres goalie pulled for no apparent reason. Then they scored. Other people they hate - Letestu, Hendricks, Nuge.
At work with my morning coffee, reading HFoil after a loss. Life is good. Today's is especially pleasant.
I like how Russell scored an own goal to tie things up for the Sabres. Attaboy Russ!
Spector wrote an interesting article about Kris Russell yesterday...
Based on a number of possession and shot metrics, the hockey analytics community has little value for Russell. Today in Edmonton, where Russell is playing out a one-year deal, the Fancy Stats community lives in fear that Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli will “make the mistake” of signing the soon-to-be 30-year-old Russell to a four-year contract.
However, hockey people — defined as coaches, managers, players and scouts — have an almost unilateral respect for Russell’s gritty, hard-nosed game. The fact that the Oilers have stats that paint him as a premier puck-mover in the NHL exacerbates that opinion in Edmonton’s front office, where Chiarelli maintains access to different stats than the ones we’ve found today on excellent sites like Corsica and HockeyAnalysis.com.
Spector wrote an interesting article about Kris Russell yesterday...
...The fact that the Oilers have stats that paint him as a premier puck-mover in the NHL exacerbates that opinion in Edmonton’s front office, where Chiarelli maintains access to different stats than the ones we’ve found today on excellent sites like Corsica and HockeyAnalysis.com.
Flames have their own in-house metrics as well. I mean, I hope that the Oilers sign Russell for a very long and lucrative contract - would be nice to see Russell get paid as he seems like a great guy, and would help to ensure that the Oilers live in cap hell.
I believe most teams have other metrics that they developed, and they apparently go through some lengths not to have them disclosed to another team can start using them. I remember Treliving talking about it a couple of seasons ago. I believe he said that the Flames don't put much value at all on CORSI, and instead rely on their own metrics. I still think CORSI is a joke of a stat, as it is only an indirect measurement of possession and can be very misleading.
Would love to know what teams really use, and how different those metrics are from one team to another. I would bet that Edmonton's metrics are no good.
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