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PostPosted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 1:17 pm 
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The Florida Panthers are An Analytics Team. Just ask them, they'll tell you. This means that dorks on the internet are rooting for their success to finally stick it to...well, I don't know, because every team employs advanced analytics now, but they'll stick it to the idea of, as Senor Columnist put it, general managers buried under piles of empty Labatt cans.

The Wall Street wizards running the Panthers took last year's Atlantic Division champions and turned them into a D+ team, about to miss the playoffs for the 14th time in 16 years. How'd they build this winner? Well, first of all, the Atlantic doesn't suck nearly as much as it did last year, now that Toronto got out of its mini-tank, Montreal got Price back, and Ottawa randomly decided to be good. The strength of the 2016 Panthers was in defense, goaltending, and coaching: you had a crackerjack blue line led by 1OA Aaron Ekblad and veteran Brian Campbell, plus lesser players who nonetheless jelled through time, system, and a respected coach in Gerard Gallant who got the most out of his guys. Plus, behind them, they had Roberto Luongo turning in a great season for his or any age at 2.35/.922.

So if you're one of these West Point grads who made a fortune in the ethically and legally dubious field of high-frequency trading, what do you do? Fuck with the defense, goaltending, and coaching! I'll forgive them the loss of Brian Campbell, because that was a family decision. They let their captain Willie Mitchell walk because he was old, instead of putting him on the Michal Rozsival plan. They traded Erik Gudbranson, a big dumb oaf but occasionally effective oaf, to Vancouver, and Russian project Dmitri Kulikov to Buffalo. In their places came guys The Analytics said would be improvements: the respectable but forgettable Jason Demers, Mark Pysyk in the Kulikov trade, but most of all Keith Yandle, a great offensive defenseman who also gets undressed more frequently than a whore at an airport motel. So now you've more or less turned over the entire defensive unit except for Ekblad and the results have been about what you'd expect. James Reimer and Luongo are platooning in goal and when you have two starting goalies, you have zero.

But the best part is the way they fired Gerard Gallant. They didn't want a crusty old redass (Gallant was on those Wings teams before the Russian Five but after the Dead Things) who wouldn't buy into their analytic approach, so they fired him while he was around .500 and made him get a taxi back to the team hotel because the bus left without him. So they put in Tom Rowe, who was the general manager they put in to replace Dale Tallon for, again, being a crusty old redass who wouldn't buy into their analytic approach! Rowe appears to be a blithering idiot with no respect from his players because they play with no structure. Their top forwards are always getting hurt, Nick Bjugstad went from poor man's Toews to damn near out of the league, but hey, Jonathan Marchessault has put up 45 points on $750,000! The analytics worked!

This is another bullshit team that's only staying where it's playing because Broward County gave them a HUGE taxpayer bailout to the tune of $86,000,000 to stay for another seven years. I guess $12.2MM/yr in subsidies is still better than the $25MM/yr Phoenix got, but it's still too high because it's not zero. They have five years to go on that deal and if these Army guys don't get more free money they'll probably be gone just like Panthers owner after Panthers owner who couldn't make the NHL work in suburban Fort Lauderdale where there's never been a base for a local team, just pockets of tourists and retirees from someplace else.

The Hawks should really try to win this game, especially if Minnesota drops their day game to Vancouver, and then peace out on the Bolts game Sunday so that everyone can enjoy the rest of the Florida vacation.

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PostPosted: Sat Mar 25, 2017 2:12 pm 
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Nucks up 1-0 early in the second and even better, the Panthers are probably missing their #1 defenseman tonight. Dig these great headlines from the Miami Herald:

MARCH 21, 2017 12:09 PM
Aaron Ekblad returns, will play for Florida Panthers following concussion


MARCH 25, 2017 12:26 PM
Florida Panthers’ Tom Rowe wishes he didn’t play Aaron Ekblad so soon after concussion




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1o3koTLWM

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2-0 Nucks now in the 2nd.

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I just hope the Wild carry this trend into the playoffs.

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I just hope the Wild carry this trend into the playoffs.

I hope they and the Blues have one of those mutually-assured-destruction series. Gotta be honest, though, I'd feel a lot better if Nashville would start doing some losing.

EDIT: it's 4-0 Vancouver now, maybe Bruce Boudreau shouldn't even make it to the playoffs.

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4-0 with Boucher with 2, a guy they just signed and playing in his first NHL game named Boesser and former 1st tound pick for the Hawks, Jack Skille.

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Curious Hair wrote:
GoldenJet wrote:
I just hope the Wild carry this trend into the playoffs.

I hope they and the Blues have one of those mutually-assured-destruction series. Gotta be honest, though, I'd feel a lot better if Nashville would start doing some losing.

EDIT: it's 4-0 Vancouver now, maybe Bruce Boudreau shouldn't even make it to the playoffs.

Them against Yeo would be fun just for the entertainment value on HF boards.

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Curious Hair wrote:
GoldenJet wrote:
I just hope the Wild carry this trend into the playoffs.

I hope they and the Blues have one of those mutually-assured-destruction series. Gotta be honest, though, I'd feel a lot better if Nashville would start doing some losing.

EDIT: it's 4-0 Vancouver now, maybe Bruce Boudreau shouldn't even make it to the playoffs.


Wow :shock: :lol:

EDIT: Gotta say that the last couple of times I have been to the TC area (over the last two months or so), I listened to the Reusse afternoon show, and those guys were predicting that the bed-shitting was gonna happen. They were dead on.

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jfc Minnesota you're getting murked by Reid Boucher and Jack Skille.

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Yeah, but the Wild gave a game "in hand"
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Side note...when I clicked over to the NHL site to check on this score, they had a link to this series they're running on the 100 greatest players of all time.

Check out the Gretzky stuff. His pee wee numbers are even more impressive than his pro numbers...they're unbelievable.

https://www.nhl.com/news/wayne-gretzky- ... =283865022

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In his final season of peewee, wearing the No. 9 of his NHL idol, Gordie Howe, spanning ages 10 and 11, the 4-foot-10, 70-pound Gretzky scored 378 goals with 139 assists in 85 games as captain of the Brantford Nadrofsky Steelers.

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Yeah but Messier & Kurri got another Cup. Messier then got another with the Rangers.

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Didn't the Hawks get absolutely humiliated last time they were in this building? It's a traaaaaaaaaaaap

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I am definitely betting against MN in the playoffs. They look to be first round fodder.

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It depends. I'm still not a big believer in the Blues, who have had a cupcake schedule since dropping Shattenkirk, and their coach is still proven playoff idiot Mike Yeo. A Wild/Blues series could go either way. Wild/Predators? Bet Perds all the way.

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Must be their best attendance all season, what with all the Blackhawks paraphernalia being sported.

The ice really sucks tonight.

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Keith and Hjarmalsson with back-to-back awful turnovers, after a shotless power play.


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Hawks trying to be too fucking cute so far. The effort is there, but the execution sucks, plus they don't seem to be taking the aforementioned crappy ice into account. Panarin has missed Kane badly on two cross-ice passes.

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Not the best they've ever looked, but come on, they're skating on slush.

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"Now let's go back to Pat and Eddie in Miami, guys how are you?"

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This game kinda blows. Certainly not how I drew it up. At least Minnesota lost.

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The ice isn't causing this stupidity.


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Heck of a shot.

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Guy takes a dive and gets a 5 on 3 for it. Unreal.


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The ice isn't causing this stupidity.


That last call on Kruger was ticky-tack, and Q was not at all happy with the call. Foley/Konroyd correctly stated that the "embellishment" penalty could have been assessed.

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Has Crawford drunkenly fallen down a flight of stairs lately? This is pathetic. Should've expected them to all show up hung over to a Florida game.

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Somehow, I don't think we're getting back into this one, but for some reason I'm not gonna turn it off just yet.

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