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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 […]
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 […]
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