When O’Sullivan was acquired at the trade deadline, his acquisition along with a second round draft pick in exchange for impending UFA Erik Cole and a 5th rounder was widely considered a master stroke by Oilers‘ GM Steve Tambellini. “We got two…
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Randy Jones Leads ALL NHL DEFENSEMEN in Points per 60 Minutes (PTS/60)
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2.25 PTS/60, #1 in the NHL among defensemen who have played at least 10 games. Doughty’s PTS/60 is about half that, 1.18. Among all players, Jones comes in 12th, tied with Dany Heatley (10 games, 15 minutes TOI minimum).
Shallow Frozen Water: MY Team Canada
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From Shallow Frozen Water (blog): Based on experience and meanness, that should mean that the other shutdown defender would be Colten Teubert, who was on last year’s version. Teubert has seemingly discovered his offensive touch this year, if his 21…
36 points in 29 games…is that good?
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How many times have the Kings had 36 points or more at the game 29 mark? Three times. 1988-89, they were one point better; 1980-81, they were seven points better; 1974-75, they were the same as this year. And, yes,…
Thursday Night’s Blown Points Standings
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Two points “awarded” for every loss, one point for every OTL/SOL. Lowest point total is best. In parentheses are the official (ESPN) rankings, when the ranking is different. Blue Jackets lose. Wings lose. Ducks lose. Avs lose. Flames lose. San Jose…
Hawks are ready for 2010-11, due to their sublime scheme of evil genius
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They have a cap hit of $60.613MM, which is $3.8MM over this year’s cap ceiling (keeping in mind that next year’s ceiling is supposed to go down by a couple million or, at best, stay the same). But at least…
Rangers Analysis: Grading the Blueshirts thus far – Blueshirt Banter
by Quisp •
Brian Boyle: I expected more scoring out of him and currently he is doing little more than taking the body occasionally. He always talks about how he needs to score more but he only has 2 goals. Grade C-. via…
Wednesday night’s “points-blown” standings update
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Two points “awarded” for every loss, one point for every OTL/SOL. Lowest point total is best. In parentheses are the official (ESPN) rankings. Calgary 15 (3) Chicago 15 (2) San Jose 16 (1) Colorado 22 (4) Los Angeles 22 (5)…
Some Kings-related blogging from The Fifth Feather
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Well, here we are, just past the quarter pole of the regular season. The Blackhawks are returning home after a “take your pants off and run around the block while primal screaming” kind of road trip. They started off by…
Deep Thoughts – Battle of California
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The Ducks are a pretty hilarious team right now because they’re still a team of giant dicks but now they suck so it comes off as just kind of sad and pathetic. It’s like they’re the high school bully that…