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Week 10 of the Nerdy 30: Jet Streamed and Stung by Jackets
As if we can’t have any more mainstream media vs. analytics battles, Mark Spector put up this fine and dandy piece about how Colorado is broken and needs to follow the Edmonton model of building a winning hockey team. Like Kris Russell being a world-class defensemen, calling Edmonton a “model franchise” is just way too […]
Week 9 of the Nerdy 30: Speak of the Devils and Heavy Mason-ry
Clearly, the biggest trends that have been observed throughout the NHL has been the domination of the Metropolitan Division throughout the standings. If the season were to end, five teams will make the playoffs. That part is not a surprise because the Atlantic Division has been full of teams that have shown a weakness or […]
The Ups and Downs of Andre Burakovsky
The Washington Capitals have had a challenging season so far. Plenty of players have regressed after the team put up one of the best regular seasons in its history last season. Of course, any NHL team, let alone Washington, that carries a top five ranking in PDO in one season is likely to regress towards […]
Week 8 of the Nerdy 30: Color-bad-O and a Stanley Cup Rematch?
With every team playing more than one-quarter of their season, we have another team to eliminate from the power rankings. One thing that’s been pretty amazing to look at in the standings is that every team in the Eastern Conference is sitting above an 82-point pace. In other words, each team in that side of […]
Week 7 of the Nerdy 30: Capped Out Capuano and Rowe-ing Above Water
So it is Gerard Gallant that won this year’s NHL sack race on, almost like it usually does, it happens around the Thanksgiving weekend. This makes sense because all NHL teams have now played one-quarter of the season and that is now considered the time where advanced stats can predict how well a team performs […]
Week 6 of the Nerdy 30: Going for Gold
After months of apathetic expectations, the Las Vegas expansion team presented its nickname and logo. Almost as expected, nobody liked it. Pretty much this ownership group never had a chance to wow the audience ever since it spent the entire Autumn looking for patents that end in “knights”. Because, when I think of Las Vegas, […]
Week 5 of the Nerdy 30: Sham Senate and Brewin’ Bruins
30. Arizona (82-game Standings Points Pace: 60 pts, Last Week: 30) 29. Vancouver (Pace: 63 pts, LW: 29) 28. Calgary (Pace: 68 pts, LW: 28) 27. Colorado (Pace: 77 pts, LW: 27) 26. New York Islanders (Pace: 67 pts, LW: 20) 25. Buffalo (Pace: 72 pts, LW: 21) 24.Dallas (Pace: 82 pts, LW: 24) It […]
Weeks 3 and 4 of the Nerdy 30: Arizona Deserted and Canuck-leheads
After two weeks since the first Nerdy 30 of the season, the calculations have finally been complete to generate this week’s rankings. During that time, 12 games have been played by all 30 teams in the NHL, at minimum. That means that one-seventh of the season has already been played and two teams have to […]
Weeks 1 and 2 of the Nerdy 30: A Whole New World
With 15 days of the NHL season past us, you would think that the same storylines will be delivered this year as they were last year. After all, there really were not any ground breaking moves during free agency that would change the complexion of the league or that somebody brand new would break out […]
Who Will Win the Central Division in 2017?
7. Colorado Either last August was some of the worst news or the best news in recent Colorado Avalanche history. During that month, Calder Cup winning coach Jared Bednar replaced Patrick Roy as head coach of the Avalanche after Roy decided to leave due to “differences in opinion”. Maybe his feelings got hurt after being […]
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