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Getting Defensive: Toronto Maple Leafs
"Getting Defensive" is a weekly look at the defense corps of the 30 NHL teams using the Time On-Ice (TOI) data from the 2010-11 regular season. Having spent a lot of time thinking about the kinds of information that could help us better understand defensemen, I noticed that while forwards can be...
Sharks Gameday: Sci-Fi Analogies!
In four games so far this season the Sharks have played about three periods of decent hockey. The last game against Carolina was pretty embarrassing. Fans worried about possible defensive problems this season but we never imagined that it would be such a team-wide issue, with some of our biggest...
Sharks Gameday: By Request, Monkeys
<!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> Next Game Carolina Hurricanes @ San Jose Sharks Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010, 7:30 PM PDT HP Pavilion Complete Coverage > <!-- END WIDGET --> The Sharks have a home game tonight against Carolina before they go on a Northwest swing later in the week. After...
The Burden of Proof: Lightning Q and A session at the St. Pete Times Forum
It's pessimism that keeps rearing it's head. Pessimism by way of print journalists and bloggers alike regarding the Question and Answer session tonight at Times Palace. Oren Koules, Brian Lawton and Rick Tocchet (Head coach, minus "interim") will be on hand to take questions. If the questions...
Another Day, Another Deal
I'll let Cassie over at Bolts Blog summarize this one up to a T: Oh, look. Another trade. I was thinking that it was about time for that again. And they're trading away another defenseman for yet another forward. Yep, that's pretty much par for the course with this team so far this season. Looks...
In review
I wrote off bringing in Jassen Cullimore in pre-season. Maybe that was a mistake. Or maybe circumstances would make it look like it was? Jassen's not putting up big numbers for the Panthers -- that's no shock -- but he's stable. Though he's only played in 21 games this season, he's averaging...
Unstable and Unable
It's a rather simple equation, repeated nightly by the Lightning... It's what's kept me silent for so long - because I thought there would be change as the season progressed... What seems apparent is the team is flying, on ice, by the seat of it's pants. With deadly offensive weapons and then...
Boyling Point
Dan Boyle has returned to practice with the Lightning. Praise the hockey gods for giving us a lax schedule to start the season so Dan doesn't miss too many games. Of course, the flip side of the lax schedule is, as Martin St. Louis put it, a detractor to the team getting intoa groove. Of...
On a Wing and an Eg
The one telling sign that there is trouble in the House of 'Ning (and by God I vowed to never use that nickname to describe the Bolts, shame on me!) was Jay Feaster loading up on defensive depth this off season. Those acquisitions have bogged down the Norfolk Admirals in while they have been short...
Cory Cross smiles at thee, Lukas Krajicek
With a plague of injuries, rampant stupidity, and other volatility regarding the Lightning defensive makeup, Lukas Krajicek has found himself to be in the top pairings of the Lightning defensive mix. Lukas Krajicek? Let me remind you of the events that brought Lukas to Tampa Bay to begin with. ...
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