Stanley cup winner
Top Cup winner pick: Lighning (eight votes)
Banner goes up tonight.
I had to remind myself it's not the playoffs so chill out. Blues looked a little tired. We'll see how they hold up.
It was interesting watching the 2nd game on TV, Sharks and Vegas. Two teams that hated each other going at it right out of the gate. Our game seemed rather tame by comparison, at least from a physical play standpoint. Blues and Caps just aren't a rivalry at all, hell most fans I know from both teams are happy for one another because the Cups had been such a long time coming for both.
If anyone is interested in the growing analytics side of hockey, McCurdy made a bot that posts the game charts for every game on twitter.
I love the one guy that puts out models mostly based on expected goals...and going into this year he made his predictions again but finally admitted that the Capitals for the last 5 years (Trotz years plus one year with Reirden) were using "some tactics" that couldn't be measured with current expected goal models...because we were consistently performing 5-7% above what the expected number was, by far the highest in the league like we're the only super outlier. They've written it off in the past as us getting above average goaltending from Holtby (compared to the average), and exceptional shooting talent (Ovechkin, obviously, but others as well)...but they finally admitted there might even be more to it than that.
Will be interesting to see if the Isles vastly outperform their xGF again.
Division gonna be fun this year. Panthers upgraded multiple positions but they're still our bitch.
Jets are terrible
I like how you ignored my double jinx post.
Not going to lie.
Love that sharks intro to Metallica