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Devils in the Details - 9/18/11
Your daily dose of New Jersey Devils & other interesting links: The first practice for veterans took place on Saturday; and they didn't dawdle on day one. - Fire & Ice Camp groups according to Tom Gulitti. - Group One, Group Two, and Group Three Zach Parise keeps being asked about his...
Devils in the Details - 9/17/11
Your daily dose of New Jersey Devils & other interesting links: Veterans reported to training camp for their physicals yesterday. Bryce Salvador passed his and impressed at least Zach Parise on the treadmill. - Fire & Ice Patrik Elias isn't interested in being the team's captain this...
A week of Puck Prospectus
I was quite interested to see the launch of Puck Prospectus, Baseball Prospectus' entry into hockey analysis. While there are lots of people doing hockey analysis, both inside the NHL and on their own, conventional hockey reporting has yet to absorb any of it, not even to the point where hockey...
New Post on Puck Prospectus: Hockey's Different Games
"Let's start with a simple hypothetical. Imagine you have never been to a hockey game before. The referee drops the puck and five on five play begins with both teams forechecking, playing defense and passing the puck with a few shots per minute on each netminder. Suddenly a penalty is drawn,...
New Puck Prospectus Post: "What Power-Play?"
http://puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=120"After the 2007-08 season, the NHL changed a rule in order to increase offense on the power play. In the past, when a penalty was called, the first power play faceoff was taken wherever the puck was touched. Starting with the 2008-09 season,...
New Column on ESPN.com
Who plays the Toughest Minutes?"Big-Minute Men: Who are teams putting on the ice in the key moments of the game? Who are the centers taking the key draws? Who are the defensive pairings in the final minute of a one-goal game?"
New Puck Prospectus Post: The Right Guy in Goal
http://puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=160"With an unproven goalie, teams can not tolerate a losing streak, so newly-arrived goaltenders have to play well immediately in the NHL. The difference between an NHL All-Star and a fringe goaltender is approximately one goal every other game. It...
New Article on Puck Prospectus: One-Goal Games
http://www.puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=188"While the trend is certainly downwards as scoring increases, several points confirm that it's possible to have both high-scoring and a high correlation between overall performance and performance in one-goal games. As scoring levels rise, the...
New Article on Puck Prospectus: Minnesota High School Hockey equivalencies
http://puckprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=192"Overall, Minnesota hockey translates to the NCAA (NHLE = 0.41) at approximately 0.18, giving an NHLE of 0.073. The translation to the USHL is 0.195; its translation to the NCAA is 0.65; the overall NHLE is 0.052. Via a similar process, the NHLE...
Joe Thornton's giveaways: bad for the Sharks?
Joe Thornton made one particularly egregious giveaway this season. Unfortunately, it was at 14:04 of the 3rd period in Game 4 of the first round of the playoffs, making the score 3-0 Ducks and dashing the Sharks' hopes of evening up the series.Here's the...
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