September 23, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
It’s that time again. Hockey is upon us!
The Kings opened the 2010 preseason with a gritty comeback victory over the Colorado Avalanche at Pepsi Center in Denver. The Avalanche scored the first two goals of the game (Dupuis and former King Kyle Quincey) before the Kings scored 4 unanswered goals to take the tilt.
Michal Handzus, John Zeilier, Brad Richardson and Justin Williams scored goals for the Kings. Thomas Hickey and Jaret Stoll each had a pair of assists. Jonathan Bernier stopped 21 of 23 shots.
The victory was a nice one for a Kings’ lineup consisting mostly of players who will
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September 16, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
On Monday I outlined an all-encompassing player evaluation model that allows us to evaluate every forward, defenseman and goalie under the same methodology. In short, the system compares how many goals are scored for and against while a player is on the ice and compares it to how many goals scored for/against one should expect [...]
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Tags: best nhl players, defense, forwards, goalies, offense, player ratings, Statistical Analysis
September 13, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
One of my goals has always been to create a fair and true player evaluation model. Myself and many others have attempted to do this to varying degrees of success. The recent trend is to stray away from goals for and against type methodologies towards shot attempts for or against methodologies (i.e. corsi analysis). One [...]
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September 12, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
I got up at 0 dark 30 this morning and headed up to El Segundo for the Kings’ second annual iteration of Hockey Fest at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo. I saw nearly every giant in the Kings’ blogging community there, met a handful of people who knew of my tiny little blip on the Kings’ blogosphere. Pretty cool I think, considering I posted nothing from mid April until a week ago, and don’t have the exposure or the following that most of them do. Gives me something to aspire to, although realistically my real life job and
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September 5, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
Even if you’re not a Led Zeppelin fan (shame on you!), that song title is an appropriate descriptor for the Kings 2010 offseason. I’m approaching the analogy in reverse as it better reflects the chronological order of events here. Sit back, relax, pour your favorite beverage and enjoy.
What Should Never Be
Kings’ fans the world over are likely ill by now from all the drama involving Ilya Kovalchuk. What it boils down to is simply this: Dean Lombardi made his best offer to kovalchuk and agent Jay Grossman – reported to be 13 years, 84.5 million dollars, and they instead chose
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September 3, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
I’m back from my blogging hiatus. As a fan, it took some time to cope with the first round loss to Vancouver. Fortunately, another exciting season is just around the corner, and I will be writing in the coming days some of my thoughts on what happened (Ponikarovsky, Mitchell), what didn’t happen (Kovalchuk) and what moves are yet to come.
On a side note – I’ve been having issues with dreaded SPAM on older blog posts. I am looking for a solution to this, if one doesn’t exist then I am going to consider moving The Throne Room to another platform.
Looking
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August 13, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
Who is the best Shooter in the NHL? If you were asked, who is the best shooter in the NHL you might answer Alexander Ovechkin since he has been the most prolific goal scorer since the lockout. What Ovechkin also always does though is take far more shots than anyone else resulting in a shooting [...]
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Tags: best shooter, kovalchuk, ovechkin, shot quality, Statistical Analysis, Uncategorized
August 13, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
Who is the best Shooter in the NHL? If you were asked, who is the best shooter in the NHL you might answer Alexander Ovechkin since he has been the most prolific goal scorer since the lockout. What Ovechkin also always does though is take far more shots than anyone else resulting in a shooting [...]
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July 2, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
When Brian Burke makes a trade more often than not he does it by targeting players and going hard after them until he gets them. He did this with both Phil Kessel and Dion Phaneuf. He identified them as players he needs to fill a hole on the roster and went hard after them. If [...]
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Tags: Maple Leafs, NHL, Tomas Kaberle, trade speculation, Uncategorized
July 1, 2010 in puckosphereallstars by other
So it seems that Leaf fans are extremely excited about the acquisition of Kris Versteeg from the Chicago Blackhawks and to some extent they should be excited. He is a solid player that will help the Leafs. But, I think Leaf fans need to keep their hopes for Versteeg in check. He is a good [...]
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