This Year Around The League

[dbilmes]

Joshua Seguin of College Hockey News picks us to finish 11th. At least we'll always have Princeton.

Are we 11th or is Dartmouth?

It looks like we're going to tie Dartmouth for 11th. Although he picks Princeton for 12th. He probably meant to put one of us in 10th place.

[billhoward]

Nothing good here.

Voters believe Cornell has home ice locked up for the 5-12 round of the ECACs.

[marty]

Tied at 0 after one. (B)Eagles and RIP each have 13 shots on goal.  

http://www.rpitv.org

For the live video.

1-0 RIP after 2.

Final 2-1 (B)Eagles fall to the Engineers. RPI's Kasdorf came up big and they also had some nice bounces and one very solid post.

So the Capital District upsets BU and BC on consecutive days.

[ursusminor]

https://twitter.com/rbcarlisle/status/653315382120349696

[ursusminor]

https://twitter.com/JeffCoxSports/status/649292413723365376

I don't know the logic behind this considering that he didn't play all year. Perhaps he was the most improved academically.

https://twitter.com/RPI_Hockey/status/729095211893334016

[billhoward]

"Brady Wiffen" should thank his parents for steering him to hockey. Imagine being a designated hitter.

[Al DeFlorio]

I don't know the logic behind this considering that he didn't play all year. Perhaps he was the most improved academically.

Everyone else regressed?::screwy::

[marty]

"Brady Wiffen" should thank his parents for steering him to hockey. Imagine being a designated hitter.

OTOH he might have sung acapella at Yale.::whistle::

[billhoward]

"Brady Wiffen" should thank his parents for steering him to hockey. Imagine being a designated hitter.

OTOH he might have sung acapella at Yale.::whistle::

Thank you. That one was hard to miss.

[Beeeej]

"Brady Wiffen" should thank his parents for steering him to hockey. Imagine being a designated hitter.

OTOH he might have sung acapella at Yale.::whistle::

Thank you. That one was hard to miss.

I was stuck on trying to make a Patriots/missing passes due to under-inflation joke.

[billhoward]

"Brady Wiffen" should thank his parents for steering him to hockey. Imagine being a designated hitter.

OTOH he might have sung acapella at Yale.::whistle::

Thank you. That one was hard to miss.

I was stuck on trying to make a Patriots/missing passes due to under-inflation joke.

If this site wasn't declared a politics-free zone, one could work in a Trump-Brady-Kraft reference. Meanwhile, it is worth watching again Bartolo Colon's home run. That stat sheets says 5-11 and 265 pounds; the height may be correct. I thought Terrance "Pot Roast" Knighton had switched over from football.  http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/15493601/bartolo-colon-home-run-card-shatters-sales-records-topps-now

[Jim Hyla]

Via ECAC, NCPR on an SLU stats prof who is working on hockey.

One study really got a lot of play. It found that shoot-outs – the one-on-ones with the goalie to break a tie game - are basically a crapshoot. Schuckers' analysis found no player is a better shoot-out scorer than anyone else.

Thank god, a reason to not decide games that way.

[ursusminor]

I don't know the logic behind this considering that he didn't play all year. Perhaps he was the most improved academically.

Everyone else regressed?::screwy::

I don't think that is the case. :-D If it was, Reno should have gotten the award alone. IMHO, there are others who improved a lot, e.g. Riley Bourbonnais.

[KeithK]

Via ECAC, NCPR on an SLU stats prof who is working on hockey.

One study really got a lot of play. It found that shoot-outs – the one-on-ones with the goalie to break a tie game - are basically a crapshoot. Schuckers' analysis found no player is a better shoot-out scorer than anyone else.

Thank god, a reason to not decide games that way.

There's got to be some selection bias baked into those results. Saying that there aren't players in the NHL who are better than others doesn't seem to pass the sniff test. A stay-at-home defense type or a goon seem like they'd have to be worse than top scorers. But then those guys aren't getting the nod for the shoot-out pretty much ever. I can believe that the variance in this skill among quality offensive players is pretty small though, enough to make the results of a shoot-out essentially random.

I fully agree with using this study to justify ditching the damn things though.

[nshapiro]

I am ok with the shootout, but the effect should be de-emphasized, especially the creation of the extra point in the standings.

Each game should be worth 5 points -
5 - regulation win
4 - overtime win
3 - shootout win
2 - shootout loss
1 - overtime loss
0 - regulation loss