Category Opinion
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Who Will Win the Pacific Division in 2017?
7.Vancouver So both head coach Willie Desjardins and general manager Jim Benning expect the Canucks to make the playoffs this season. Unfortunately for them, they should be about a good 10-20 points off their prediction and both could lose their jobs by April. Simply put, the team just can’t get out of the way of […]
Who Will Win the Atlantic Division in 2017?
8. Ottawa Let’s start previewing the Ottawa Senators with this not-so-big-deal tweet. The amount of unsold Senators home opener tickets for tonight is hilarious. What a joke of a franchise lmao pic.twitter.com/rQJS4wZg5H — Sara (@EssieKatelyn) October 12, 2016 Good job, good effort Eugene Melnyk! Also, remember when he made that massive rant stating that no […]