AHL- Apolyton Hockey League 07/08: III Revenge of the Undrafted

[Asher]

Stupidest sports writer. Ever.

http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071004.wsptryder4/GSStory/GlobeSportsHockey/?pageRequested=all

This genius gives some unsolicited advice to the Flames coach. Yes, this article is dated Oct 4, 2007.

Dear Mike:

I know you are new to Calgary. So I thought I might give you some insight into your Flames.
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Something went wrong with the back end of the team last year. Goaltending is a fragile thing. Miikka Kiprusoff was not the same goalie as in prior seasons. I know this is a sensitive point, but he is no Roberto Luongo (who was the most valuable goalie in the NHL last season). You never can tell, but I don't see the goaltending getting better.
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While I am on the shootout, Jarome Iginla (three for four) and Alex Tanguay (three for seven) are your top shooters. The performance of Kristian Huselius last season was somewhat disappointing (one goal in five attempts) so give Byron Ritchie (two for three) a better opportunity to perform.

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So these three new players will battle for ice time with the incumbents: Dion Phaneuf, Robin Regehr, Andrew Ference and Warrener. And they cannot all have the minutes they want.

Tingkai: this is what I mean about Toronto and the rest of the league. Even your sports writers know nothing outside of Toronto.

[Ninot]

I enjoy the condescending tone it's written in.

[Ninot]

Oh lord, he wants Ryder to get PK time. This guy has his head up his ass.

[Asher]

Notice the bolded names in my quote, and then look up what teams they are on.

[Ninot]

Yeah, I noticed. The guy is just an ******* statshead who has his head burried in numbers. That wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for he has no real grip on the game.

[snoopy369]

Yay Excel!

[Asher]

This guy's a much better stats geek in hockey: http://hockeynumbers.blogspot.com/

[Flubber]

I gotta say the guy has interesting points predictions

Toronto 101
Ottawa 101
Vancouver 100
Calgary 99
Montreal 95
Edmonton 82

So his view is that Toronto is equal to being the best team in Canada??

I don't think he would find much support for that view

[Asher]

He's a Toronto writer. Over here they're all convinced this is the Cup year, since some old guy from the '67 team found his lost ring.

[Guynemer]

NYE is right--a guy from Yahoo emailed me this afternoon, and changing roster management to "Classic" solves the IR problem for now. They're still working on the drag-and-drop issues. (I don't know why, as it works perfectly in Yahoo Fantasy Baseball, but whatever...)

[Kontiki]

Man, I love it when Ottawa plays Toronto. Six more times this year - Heatley may reach 60 goals.

[Asher]

I have to say, I looooove my team so far.

5G 9A +8 so far. And Crosby hasn't even played a game yet.

[Asher]

And a few more goals, a few more assists, a win, 100% svp, and a shutout...

7-0 by a wide margin so far. Mwah!

[notyoueither]

The kids are alright.
3 1:37 EV EDM 77 T.GILBERT(1) 13 A.COGLIANO(1) 89 S.GAGNER(1)
3 2:51 EV EDM 51 K.BRODZIAK(1) 44 S.SOURAY(1) 19 M.REASONER(1)

[Flubber]

Nice game by Edmonton but I can see that shootouts can be quite a pissoff for a pool player-- Snoopy got a shootout win and I have a shootout loss already this week -- reverse that and I lead by two in wins --arrgghhh - ahh c'est la vie


Oh and gerber -- I had hoped for the wins but the save pecentage is a bonus


and once again it seems that stats tracker is sometimes slow in recognizing power play points. Tanguay's assist was clearly a PPA so I should trail by one more on plus/minus and have a one point lead on PPA-- I suspect it gets corrected quickly though-- I do like the stats tracker though-- very timely usually

So I lead 4-1-- I could probably sit my goalies and win sv% right now but then I would lose wins-- Snoopy still has a big lead on plus/minus (%^$%#^# zubov) and most of the rest are very close -- so its a tough week yet