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Impact and Complementary Players
It’s interesting to hear people analyze a certain player’s role or importance. Most assumptions about players are inherently imprecise, but none more so than the labeling of players by their supposed line. Terms like “1st line centre” and “2nd line winger” get thrown around a lot, and are meant to refl [...]
Monthly archives for October, 2011
Sunday Jets Notes: Impact Players, Li...
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Impact and Complementary Players
It’s interesting to hear people analyze a certain player’s role or importance. Most assumptions about players are inherently imprecise, but none more so than the labeling of players by their supposed line. Terms like “1st line centre” and “2nd line winger” get thrown around a lot, and are meant to refl [...]
Why Do We Fall?
Why the Jets may need to lose the battle to win the war
If patience is a virtue, we’d all be wise to become a lot more virtuous, right now. I don’t want to harp on the following point, but need to make one thing clear: the Jets are…not a good team. To put it very kindly, they are “below average” defensively. They’ve demonstrated a trem [...]
These Things Take Time: Jets Long-Ter...
John Wooden - arguably the most successful coach of all-time
Claude Noel’s pre-game interview on Sunday was music to my ears. He avoided most of the hockey euphemisms about his team needing to “play 60 minutes”, “get in on the fore-check”, “get pucks to the net”, and all the other nonsense that coache [...]
The NHL-30 (October)
My version of Scott Cullen’s TSN “Power Rankings”. I was inspired to do this after disagreeing intensely with some of his picks (Washington 6th, Buffalo 7th, Minnesota 27th). Like Cullen’s item, it isn’t meant to indicate the top team in the standings, but rather the team(s) I feel are most equipped to make a ser [...]
Can We Play in YOUR Division?
The Florida Panthers last post-season appearance was shortly after Y2K. Yeah.
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There was a time when the South-East division was the weakest in the league. Florida and Atlanta were laughing stocks, Tampa Bay had some rough stretches, while Carolina and Washington were the best of a bad lot. Then Washington took a big step forward, and starte [...]
What Line Does So-and-So Play On?
***UPDATED OCTOBER 14***
Complete NHL line-ups updated on a weekly basis
Confirmed Line-Up’s
Winnipeg
(LW-C-RW)
Ladd-Little-Wheeler
MacLean-Burmistrov-Antropov
Kane-Scheifele-Wellwood
Glass-Slater-Thorburn
IR: Fehr (more…)
Fantasy Hockey Rankings: Defencemen
Buffalo's franchise defenceman Tyler Myers
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Before reading this, you should take at least a passing glance at my main fantasy hockey article since many of the factors which apply to a forward’s fantasy ranking also apply to defencemen. (more…)
Fantasy Hockey Preview: Goaltenders
Main article on Fantasy Hockey can be viewed here
Here’s a link to another relevant article on NHL goalies
New York Rangers goalie Henrik "GQ" Lundqvist
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A quick run through of the primary factors that determine a goalie’s value (more…)
Jets Roster Update: Opening Night Lin...
Forwards
There are 11 forwards who had NHL jobs locked up from the beginning: Ladd, Little, Wheeler, Kane, Burmistrov, Antropov, Slater, Thorburn, Glass, Wellwood, and Fehr. With Fehr on IR, the Jets were looking for 3 players to fill out their forward group.
The only other forwards who remain in camp are Cormier, Bodie, Maxwell, Pesonen, Gre [...]