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Weeks 21 and 22 of the Nerdy 30: A case of bad PDO and Thoughts on #VanHAC
Welcome back readers. A new mega-edition of the Nerdy 30 is upon us after taking a week off from my trip to Vancouver. The city was amazing despite it being rainy the majority of the vacation and I was able to meet so many new and familiar faces at the annual Vancouver Hockey Analytics Conference […]
Week 20 of the Nerdy 30: No Rally’s and Raleigh and Shat-ing on Pittsburgh’s Parade
The NHL trade deadline is over, and good riddance to it. Once again, too many past their prime veteran players had to be talked up by media analysts and were only traded away by draft picks. The more these types of trades come about the more it needs to be understood that these type of guys […]
Week 19 of the Nerdy 30: Back from Extinction and Penguins in Pain
Embrace this week’s power rankings everyone, because this will be the last time you will see almost every team look the same before the upcoming trade deadline. Not a single team has been eliminated in this week’s rankings, so until then, let’s analyze a few teams that have made a massive change in their performances […]
Week 18 of the Nerdy 30: Ta-ta Therrien and Down Goes Dallas
Another week, another coach gets fired and another team needs to be eliminated from the power rankings. This should have happened last year, but after only winning once in their last seven games heading into the bye week, Montreal was left with no choice but to fire Michel Therrien. He becomes the fifth head […]
Week 17 of the Nerdy 30: Sweeney Todd
Another week, another coach has gotten fired. This one was a bit more predictable as Boston decided to get rid of longtime coach Claude Julien. While I still stand by the fact that it was a bad decision, Bruins fans can’t tolerate the idea of missing three postseasons in a row and that is understandable. […]
Week 16 of the Nerdy 30: Yeozers
After commenting about how St. Louis needed to change their game plan, the St. Louis Blues front office thought it was best to change head coaches. The days of boring Ken Hitchcock are finally over, but who knows if replacing him with Mike Yeo will make things better. Yeo did lead Minnesota to one of […]
Weeks 14 & 15 of the Nerdy 30: All-Star Weekend Edition
With this year’s NHL All-Star weekend coming to a close, the rest of the regular season is upon us tomorrow and before you know it, the trade deadline will be coming at us fast. Plenty of rumors are already swirling around from struggling teams that are looking to tank and save salary cap room in […]
Week 13 of the Nerdy 30: A Thousand Miles
Another milestone, another time to reminisce about history. I just don’t know what to say about Alex Ovechkin anymore without saying he’s the best. We’re still in the middle of his age-31 season and as of minutes before tonight’s Capitals-Blackhawks game, the “Great 8” is sitting 29th all-time in goals scored at 546 and 84th […]
Week 12 of the Nerdy 30: Blashill’s Blushes and a Dab for Minnesota’s Defense
Happy New Year everyone! As we get back from playing some outdoor fun and games, the NHL starts to get just a bit more exciting as college and pro football begin to wane from our consciousness. Now that we are getting ever closer to the halfway point of the season, it is time to knock […]
Week 11 of the Nerdy 30: It’s a Winter Classic
As we get closer to another new year, plenty of people will be looking forward to more resolutions that may or may not be achieved, fewer celebrity deaths, less political vitriol, more world peace and fresher starts. Almost all that were on that list is not guaranteed to happen, but one thing that is certain […]
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