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Goalie Analysis from 538 Blog

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Hey all! The Nate Silver 538 blog put up a pretty interesting piece on hockey goalkeeping and its relationship to a teams success. Things like shooting percentage, PDO, and regression are also brought up. It's an interesting, very unbiased look at how crazy this game can really be. Also, our very own hot goalkeeper is used as the article picture! Enjoy!

Colorado Avalanche’s success is unsustainable (Trending Topics)

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Not really familiar with Ryan Lambert, but he seems like a tool. Yes, the numbers say otherwise. But all the examples he gave for clubs who succumbed to those stats fizzled out long before being 2 games away from a potential division title...

Kyle Quincey on HGTV

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Not sure if this has been posted before, but I was watching some HGTV and this show 'Scoring the Deal' came on. To my surprise, the episode was about Kyle Quincey renting his Denver home during the season after getting traded. Pretty random/funny IMO :)

Martin St. Louis requests trade from Lightning

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Although it was previous just a rumour, evidently it's now been confirmed. Can't imagine St. Louis in any other uniform. Anyone think there's a chance in detroit he ends up an Av? (I don't.) Edit, probably won't be an Av: "Martin St Louis wants a trade and will only move to the Rangers."

The Dog and Pony Show

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The unexpected yet entirely predictable return of the classic blog featuring commentary on Team USA's travails in the men's Olympic hockey tournament Sochi.

Delicious Icing - Corsi in Context

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An introduction to team Corsi in even strength situations and how it applies to the Avs. I've touched on this idea before commenting on other posts, but wanted to give a full in-depth explanation to a) actually justify why the numbers I was using are relevant, and b) show that I'm not just talking out of my ass. The Flames turned out to be the perfect team to frame us against, so looks like it was my (statistically) lucky day! This post also has a chart, so it's practically a scientific paper.

Good Article on Cory Sarich

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"Nobody is ready to hand him a Norris Trophy just yet, but Sarich has been the Avs' best defenseman in their 3-0 start"