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June 30, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
As always, there is a lot of speculation as to what the Maple Leafs will do on July 1st when the NHL free agent season begins. Some are suggesting they should go big or go home and do whatever it takes to sign Ilya Kovalchuk as the answer to their offensive woes while others believe [...]
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June 30, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
As always, there is a lot of speculation as to what the Maple Leafs will do on July 1st when the NHL free agent season begins. Some are suggesting they should go big or go home and do whatever it takes to sign Ilya Kovalchuk as the answer to their offensive woes while others believe [...]
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June 29, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
Ho hum – another boring draft. Unless you have a top 10 pick, or your team makes a trade, the draft to me is pretty boring…the Sabres drafted some guys…we might get a look at Mark Pysik in 3 years if we’re lucky. (Tyler Myers is the exception to the rule here as to how fast he made it to the NHL.) Should they have drafted for offense instead of defense? Whatever – draft the best guy on the board…that’s what you do in the NHL – again unless you have a top-10 pick.
Meanwhile, free agency is about to rear
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June 17, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
All right – I’m back! Where did I go? Well, really nowhere. I was in Florida for the end of the Sabres playoff run, and upon returning, I was simply too depressed to write anything. As the days turned into weeks, I just couldn’t bring myself to put my thoughts into words. But with the off-season finally here, I felt I had to step up and make some comments before the draft and free agency began.
Even though the Sabres made the playoffs, this season felt like more of a disappointment than the last two. I wanted to feel excited by the
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June 11, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
Howard Berger, along with many in the main stream Toronto hockey media, has made it his mission to constantly berate Brian Burke for trading away his first round draft picks in this years draft as well as next years. This years of course has turned out to be the second overall pick. Today his reasoning [...]
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June 9, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
Behind the Net Blog recently used even strength when game is tied Corsi analysis to take a look at the divisional imbalance since the lockout and came up with an interesting conclusion.
The NW division is slightly better than the SE division against all shared opponents. But SE division teams outshot NW teams in [...]
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June 5, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
This past season the Boston Bruins were the lowest scoring team in the NHL with just 196 goals for (the only team not to reach 200 goals) or about 2.34 goals per game and in the playoffs they were only slightly better scoring at a 2.58 goals per game pace. So the question that needs [...]
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June 3, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
I am planning that over the course of the summer and into next season I will get back into analyzing hockey statistics more in depth again. Over the past couple of seasons Corsi numbers have become much more prevalent so I thought I would start off by discussing what they are and my thoughts on them.
Corsi numbers [...]
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