Eric Schumacher
754 posts
@cbjpocke
Fan of the Blue Jackets just starting to get my thoughts out there. May be occasional Horror, TTRPG , Anime or whatever else I am hyperfixating on.
My sense is Don Waddell still wants to bring Rick Bowness back (needs a new contract). And I think the feeling the mutual. But obviously lots for both to talk about over the coming days. Player exit meetings also important.
An emotional and angry Rick Bowness goes OFF on his #CBJ team after their 2-8-1 finish to the season: “These guys, they don’t care. Losing is not important enough to them … If I’m back, we’re changing this freaking culture.”
#CBJ Coach Rick Bowness says he’s put the new lines together in pursuit of more offense saying, we don’t have a forward in the top 60 in scoring in the league so we need to do it by committee. Jet Greaves gets the net and there could still be a gametime decision or two.
It really is amazing how goals are up and save percentages are down in today's NHL. The Wild have the 4th-best goals against average in the NHL at 2.82 and highest save percentage in the league at .907. Minnesota and Colorado are the ONLY NHL teams with save percentages over .900 These would not be all that impressive numbers in yesteryear.
Zach Werenski is our Norris front-runner. He's our model's dman leader in StandingsPTS contributed, and is the only player league-wide to rank in the 95th+ percentile for Zone Offence, Zone Defence, Transition, & Teamplay SPAR (with 98% as his lowest). 📈 LB-Hockey.com
We didn't want him anyway
Defensemen points leaders this season: 78pts — Evan Bouchard 69pts — Lane Hutson 69pts — Cale Makar 69pts — Zach Werenski 67pts — Quinn Hughes This is going to be a sick Norris race.
Been hard at work with LB-Hockey.com the last couple months to overhaul our data pipeline. All of our non-microstats or contract data is now collected & cleaned in-house directly through the NHL API, and we’ve built our own expected goal/value models attached to it!
@lgmigk @DavidJ_Cole @JoeyOil29 @DJ_Bean scoring points is very important to winning a ring which is why one guy has won the Art Ross and the Stanley cup the past 30 years (& that was two decades ago) whereas its happened 9 different times for the selke winner. there's more to hockey than just offense my friend.
🏆 What is each franchise's Cup contention window? My @TSNHockey feature looks at over a decade of Cup winners & finds what they have in common. 🪟 Hint: Windows open slowly... & close quickly as stars age. Just ask Toews, Crosby, Kopitar. LINK (🔗): tsn.ca/nhl/article/wh…
