Category Hockey

Day 15 of 2017 Stanley Quips: Let Me Letestu

Last night’s Ducks-Oilers game was quite a strange one. After a dull first two periods that saw one power play goal from each team, you never expected a high-scoring 5-3 win by the road team in the end, but that’s how the game finished in the end. To start the scoring in the third period, Edmonton […]

2017 Stanley Cup Conference Semifinals Preview

Hey everyone? How’s everyone’s hearts? How’s everyone’s brackets? Oh, Terrible?! Yeah, mine too. This has really been a rough postseason for everyone in the analytics community as almost everyone (including me) picked Minnesota to reach the Stanley Cup finals. That being said, almost everyone on social media reveled in Nashville taking Chicago to the cleaners […]

Day 9 of 2017 Stanley Quips: Chelsea Haggard

Throughout the season, there have been hints that the landscape of the NHL could be changing rapidly. Pittsburgh is now seen as the standard bearers of how to play the game thanks to Mike Sullivan’s fun-and-gun style and lightning-quick tape-to-tape passing. Toronto seems to be following suit and is an elite defender or two away […]

Day 8 of 2017 Stanley Quips: Flamed Out

Within a small space of time, the Anaheim Ducks became the first team to advance to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. This is not an undeserved achievement either. While Calgary can attest that they were winning the shot attempt battle all series long (score-adjusted to 195.6-191.3 at even strength), Anaheim can counter […]

Day 7 of 2017 Stanley Quips: Edmonton is Gifting This Series to San Jose

With the series now tied at two, San Jose has now made their first round match-up way more interesting than anticipated after thrashing Edmonton 7-0 last night. Their fear leading into the postseason was whether their offensive firepower that has made them so good in recent memory would is no longer existent because of a […]

Day 5 of 2017 Stanley Quips: The Pittsburgh Penguins are going to win the Stanley Cup

People, this Penguins-Blue Jackets series should not be this easy. But here we are. Pittsburgh came back from a 3-1 deficit last night and basically took the Blue Jackets to the woodshed since the second period until Jake Guentzel put them out of their misery. To go along with that, in the most Pittsburgh way […]

Day 3 of Stanley Quips: What do The Oilers and Office Space Have in Common?

So the only game I was able to watch last night was the third period of the Oilers-Sharks game and boy did Edmonton take them to the cleaners. The Oilers certainly had the potential to do this because they were easily the younger, fresher and hotter team than San Jose was. And all that has […]

Days 1 and 2 of 2017 Stanley Quips: Leave Willy Alone!!!

When writing for the Hockey Writers, I tried to build a feature around something I found interesting through a couple of Capitals playoffs games. At the DC Sports Dork, I have decided to expand on this venture and write one narrative on the at least one game every night of the postseason. Boy do people […]

2017 Stanley Cup Conference Quarterfinals Preview

Some say Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but to me, it is when high temperatures are set in stone to be 60 degrees fahrenheit or better and we all celebrate it by going indoors and watching playoff hockey or basketball. By the time this festive period is over, it will be […]

Week 25 of the Nerdy 30: Fighting For Power

As we hit the last two days of the NHL regular season, now should be a time to finally get excited that the Stanley Cup playoffs are upon us. Instead, news broke out that the NHL will no longer allow their players to freely play for their countries in any future Olympic Hockey tournaments. Money […]