advanced-stats Stories - The Copper & Blue
Number That May Interest Only Me: 62
Rangers' Fenwick before Carl Hagelin 0.447 Rangers' Fenwick since Carl Hagelin 0.519 And if Fenwick is too confusing for you, how about shots percentage? Rangers' Shots % before Carl Hagelin 0.433 Rangers' Shots % since Carl Hagelin 0.520 Carl Hagelin wears #62 for the...
Are The 2011 Minnesota Wild Better Than Their 2010 Team?
"Puck possession is everything."--Mike Babcock One of central pillars of the arguments from those who believe the Wild are a legitimate top-tier team is shot quality. The argument says something to the effect that possession metrics don't explain the Wild because they get better shots and generate...
The Best Young Line In Hockey (It's Not Who You Think. Nope, Not Them Either.)
A few short years ago, the Colorado Avalanche were one of the worst possession teams in the NHL. They were extremely young and partly due to that, overwhelmed on a nightly basis. They were heavily outshot and spent an enormous amount of time digging pucks out of their own end. But they rode some...
Sam Gagner IS A ______ Line Centre
I had and article detailing Sam Gagner's comparables ready to go for this morning, until I was inspired by this comment from Copper & Blue regular melancholyculkin:If you use the criteria of top 30=1st line, top 60=2nd line then Gagner is already a second-line center. He was the 49th highest...
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