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Post by Merpes on Oct 15, 2019 12:38:51 GMT
Not sure what is wrong with this team but they take the body more than they have in the last ten years combined.
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Post by Merpes on Oct 15, 2019 12:48:39 GMT
Coincidence that the Hawks give up 1 goal and Gus has least 5 on 5 ice time among dmen?
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Post by lari on Oct 15, 2019 12:53:11 GMT
I saw Crow in goal and said WTF but he played well, 92 scores, Hawks win their 1st Oilers lose their 1st. Backwards night in OGACIHC I give Corey two thumbs up. Two out of three (the middle thumb still stays down).
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Post by lari on Oct 15, 2019 12:58:05 GMT
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Post by khawk20 on Oct 15, 2019 13:58:31 GMT
That's encouraging, which is a hard word to use with this team most nights.
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Post by garyu on Oct 15, 2019 15:03:59 GMT
Who counts hits? The league? A guy in the press box? It is noticeable though.
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Post by jrsamu on Oct 15, 2019 16:05:24 GMT
Nice goal by Nylander and the play did improve over what was a decent effort (save for 19-88) against Winnipeg.
Shaw was missed, and Caggiula is Mini-Shaw. Both are hard to play against. Throw in better defensive awareness and skill of Maatta and deHaan and there should be something more to work with than last year.
And Dach will be up soon, assuming he can stay healthy.
I'll give JC some kudos - I didn't like the lines last game but there seemed to be more connection against the Oilers. I like the defensive pairings a lot better than last year and hope Gustafsson stays away from Keith.
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Post by brendan on Oct 16, 2019 2:37:01 GMT
thought it was a nice effort across board. Shaw looks great...
Smith looks ok on 4th line but way overpaid, and worse value than anismov so far.
Nylander nice vision to snipe the 5 hole but a ghost without puck in between the circles.
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Post by brendan on Oct 16, 2019 2:44:25 GMT
Who counts hits? The league? A guy in the press box? It is noticeable though. iirc each building has an "nhl" stats guy in the pressbox who tallies the officially tracked stuff, hits shots etc?
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Post by Merpes on Oct 16, 2019 12:00:32 GMT
thought it was a nice effort across board. Shaw looks great... Smith looks ok on 4th line but way overpaid, and worse value than anismov so far. Nylander nice vision to snipe the 5 hole but a ghost without puck in between the circles. Smith is gone in the offseason on a buyout. Only costs the Hawks 1 million. I wouldn’t be surprised if Smith was traded at deadline as depth forward for a playoff team where the Hawks retain the 1 million they would incur anyway in offseason on buyout. He’s not a bad player just not worth his current cap hit. Something in the 1.5-2 million range is probably his actual value.
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Post by Merpes on Oct 16, 2019 12:05:42 GMT
When Dach gets his cup of tea, where does he play and who sits?
I don’t think you want to break up the Saad-Kampf-Kubalik line. They have been the best line so far.
I’d play him with Toews and Shaw.
Then reunite Debrincat Strome and Kane.
Debrincat and Toews look like they have no chemistry together.
I believe Perlini will go on waivers to make room for Dach. No one will claim him either. Or maybe you can come up with a phantom injury to put him on LTIR for a bit.
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Post by lari on Oct 17, 2019 18:50:36 GMT
I don’t think you want to break up the Saad-Kampf-Kubalik line. They have been the best line so far. This is so weird, yet true. Somehow putting together an overpaid underachieving man-man (no longer man-child), a young Milan Bartovic and a rookie who might well become the next Milan Bartovic, ends up ...working well?! I thought this line would be a disaster, yet Hairy Middle-Eastern Man and the two Milans are getting the job done. Colliton even played this line against the McJesus line no problem.
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Post by gadi on Oct 17, 2019 21:07:08 GMT
Who counts hits? The league? A guy in the press box? It is noticeable though. iirc each building has an "nhl" stats guy in the pressbox who tallies the officially tracked stuff, hits shots etc? Yup. And it varies league wide. When I last did an analysis 3 years ago (by comparing a team's home hits to their away hits at various stadiums), the UC scorer gave about 10% less hits to the opposing team than their average. The Wild's scorer typically gave teams 15% MORE hits than their average.
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Post by Merpes on Oct 17, 2019 22:00:36 GMT
You had a lot of time on your hands, huh?
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Post by gadi on Oct 18, 2019 1:11:22 GMT
Work is boring.
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