Oilers Desjardins NHLE March Update
by Derek Zona on Apr 7, 2010 4:30 AM MDT
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Everyone's season winds down in March and for some it's a late-season surge (Nash, Kytnar) to the playoffs, for others, like the parent club, it's just playing out the season so that they can get home to their family and friends. Nash was on fire to end the season as Cornell charged to the NCAA playoffs. Riley Nash's NHL PPG at the end of December was .410. In January that dropped to .319, but in February Nash rallied and pushed it back to .461. Now, at the end of the season, Nash's charge peaked with the final game - .478 and 3rd in NHLE for all Oilers not in the NHL.
NHLE was developed by the irrepressible Gabriel Desjardins of the Behindthenet.ca and the outstanding Behind The Net Hockey.
Gabe's methodologies are described on his translations page:
One way to evaluate the difficulty of one league relative to another is examine the relative performance of players who have played in both leagues. Players rarely play significant time in two leagues in the same year, but they often play in one league in one year and in another the next. As long as a player’s skill level is approximately constant over this two year period, the ratio of his performance in each league can be used to estimate the relative difficulty of the two leagues.
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Thanks for gathering all that info up in one place. I suspect these numbers under-estimate Hartikainen and Vandevelde’s real contribution to goals getting scored, as they are tough guys, crash the net types.
I’m looking forward to seeing both of them in training camp next year.
by David Staples @ The Cult of Hockey on Apr 7, 2010 9:34 AM MDT reply actions
23-year-old midget Linus Omark, if he were to play eighty-two games of first line minutes on an average NHL team, is projected to forty-four points.
FUCKING SAVIOUR!
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 7, 2010 11:49 AM MDT reply actions
Not that your point should be underestimated but the method does not require him to get first line minutes. In fact, it probably assumes something less than that.
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 7, 2010 12:05 PM MDT up reply actions
Unless I’m mistaken, the Desjardins formula requires him to get the minutes he got with his original team, right? So Omark would get the sort of ice time he got in the KHL, which to my knowledge is “first line right wing and played until his heart exploded on the powerplay”.
by Benjamin Massey on Apr 7, 2010 12:19 PM MDT up reply actions
You are mistaken. It just takes the usage actual players received. So, whatever the average difference is from a guy going from the Russian league to the NHL is the closest thing to a “situational” assumption in Omark’s NHLE for the past year. It does not assume the same circumstances in both leagues.
by Scott Reynolds on Apr 7, 2010 2:05 PM MDT up reply actions
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