David Lefcort

The format encourages teams to “not lose” instead of “win”

Knight really putting it together out of nowhere.

Better Sv% than the walrus goalie

I mean the team has 2 dmen who would play on a contending team 1 F who can reliably transport the puck. The positive 5v5 play shows Sully’s great scheme in spite of personnel, Quinn’s PP is predictably trash and Laf Is playing well just unlucky. Just waiting for the rebuild either way.

Yeah perhaps the craziest part of last night is Mailloux not being on for any GA.

I’m sure the Hofer shot chart is a blood bath.
What’s crazy is looking at the numbers, anything on goal within about 25ft against him has roughly a 50/50 chance of going in.

Oh wow, I went to high school with the guy who wrote this.

Yeah they got no finishers on the roster. Seems like a good spot for idk Nick Robertson….

They just need a finisher. Doesn’t look like Coronato is that guy

Man it’s like watching the first few scenes of American History X and going “I don’t get it, what’s the big deal?”

like your line optimizer idea.

Curious about a deployment optimization scale for teams- who plays their actual best players for a given game state/situation (Hold lead, need goal, etc) the most and vice versa
Roughly a correlation score between contextualized sG and your Leverage deployment data.

Yeah I mean it's a very interesting start they've had. Awful goaltending, high event play at both ends with some meh defense but great offense & a dominant PP -mostly from Kreider finishing.
Q seems to have tightened up the NZ & transition play a bit but they've only won games because of Kreids/PP.

Funny enough this is basically the inverse of the typical Rangers experience.

The jump from Cronin to Q schematically is pretty sizable.

My favorite Lindgren stat through 2 GP this year is that he hasn't completed a single pass in the offensive zone.
The other 5 Dmen have combined for 23 shot assists. Lindgren has 0 completed passes of any kind.
That's not really offense, that's a byproduct of the other team always having the puck.

I'm not sure what you mean by fancy chart, Kraken are hemmed in their zone whenever he's on the ice. Scoring Chances are 27-8 for the opposition with him. He's not stopping anyone from entering the zone & incapable of getting the puck out. I guess we have a different definition of good defense.

Man that Ryan Lindgren signing is turning out....exactly as expected heh.

I think Montour has had more offense in the 7 minutes away from Lindgren than the 30+ mins with him.

But the roster is solid aside from lighting 11mil on fire with Stephenson & Lindgren. On-ice metrics w/o them are great.

I guess if you’re a dumb enough team to go out and get guys like Reaves and Goodrow, you’re also dumb enough to play them.

I’ve been seeing Grier get some praise from folks at times and i honestly have no idea where it comes from.

Hope he’s having a nice celebratory breakfast salad.

I mean only 6 shot attempts against at 5v5, drew a penalty, 50% from the dot. Looks pretty good to me.

I will say it was weird to hear the ESPN broadcast try to make this clear distinction that the Staal line was the 3L and the Hall line was the 4L. Feels like RBA uses them more like off/def lines

The only real commitment Detroit needs to make to improve is getting Hamonic & Chiarot off the roster.

Oh agreed 100%. I just think with their current d lineup each bot4 pair has at least 1 (if not 2) pretty big weak links. And the discrepancy in metrics between a d pair with a weak link vs. without is always going to look massive. I think the Jets can mitigate a lot of their losses. But they're not.

I mean playing Stanley & Schenn over Salomonsson & Heinola is certainly a choice. Pretty predictable outcome.

Kicking off your tenure by trading away Spence for pennies and spending 13 mil on Ceci/Dumoulin/Armia/Perry is pretty legendary. And that's with Edmundson already the top 4.
Hard to think of a job aside from college football coach where you can be so consistently awful and still get hired.

I mean Evander Kane is very much employed, as is Toews.Teams have shown that they'll put up with almost anything if they "think" you're a good player.
I just don't think it means much that 2 teams that suck at evaluating talent passed over him.
But good on-ice results follow Kaliyev wherever he is

Yeah I mean @hockeyviz.com has had him as a top 6F his entire career. At this point he's basically been Kakko at his peak if Kakko shot the puck as much as people have wanted him to.

They don't make 12ths like they used to (with mountains of cocaine).

I’ll take the under.

I mean I'm pretty sure @hockeyviz.com 's model already has him as a top 40 F in terms of isolated impact