The Jackal - (DG)

Member since January 20, 2008

Toronto

Habs fan since: 2000 BC
Favorite current player: Carey Price
All-time favorite player: Saku Koivu

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Recent Comments

• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  Let's bracket that EOTP and stats statement. You're right that players contributions cannot be quantified all the time. The bottom line is - is the player a liability or not? IF Bordeleau and such players contribute the vaunted intangibles we seek, without being a liability, then they will improve the team, it is that simple. BUT EOTP and the stats that they cite will only become more relevant as advanced stats gain ground. It is happening in every sport but it is slow to catch on because of the jock mentality. The bottom line with stats is that they can explain and deepen one's understanding of what is going on on the ice. No stats person claims that stats tell the whole story, but they elucidate many things that may be overlooked by the intuitive and eyes-only analysis that characterizes sports. Some say you can't money-ball hockey, but with every sport you can see who performs how and improves what areas with advanced stats, that is the bottom line. Managers and coaching staffs with that extra understanding would only be even better than they are today. ______________________ Hockey sine stercore tauri.
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  Like you said DDO, every GM knows Price is a stud, hence his contract - it's not like MB would overpay just for the heck of it - there is a high demand for goalies like Price, and we can see that with similar goalies getting similar contracts. That said, the bashers seem to forget that Price won us many a game last season and was in the running for the Vezina until we hit our slump this season. Just saying, show me a goalie who has not let in a bad goal and who has not been through a slump. You can't because that happens to every single player in any sport. As for trading Price? If Malkin or a stud D like Weber or Suter are not coming back, along with a good goalie, then no thanks! And that is the problem right there, bonafide number 1 goalies are hard to find. You see all these under-the-radar goalies every year who go on a streak then flame out, like Leighton, who outplayed Halak all through the 2010 playoffs, then lost in the cup final and now where is he? Or our own Halak, he had a great run, now he is a third string guy on another team. Or my favourite example, Anderson - that guy is streaky as hell and you can see his overall stats paint the picture that he is average. Goalies that are always reliable are not always on the market or up for grabs, but there are always some goalies who go on a hot streak then revert to their usual form. Price is the former. He is reliable and is only 25. He has had a few bad games this season... that's pretty much it for his recent struggles. You don't move a guy like that. ______________________ Hockey sine stercore tauri.
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  Send your resume to HNIC, stat! ______________________ Hockey sine stercore tauri.
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  Whatever they are thinking, you can't feel sorry for them anyway. Like you said, they are more than well compensated and have a nice vacation to look forward to. However, no matter your pay, when you are in that business that is that competitive, losing like that stings for a while, and since its the laffs, then that makes me grin. ______________________ Hockey sine stercore tauri.
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  Thank god the Price traders are never going to actually make trades. ______________________ Hockey sine stercore tauri.
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  Only if you smoke your Halak poster first! ______________________ Hockey sine stercore tauri.
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  You forgot the trade DD camp ______________________ Hockey sine stercore tauri.