Analytics also give Benoit Pouliot a $20 million contract so I’m not ready to call them our overlords just yet.Analytics are valued precisely because they debunk guys like Pierre.
Analytics also give Benoit Pouliot a $20 million contract so I’m not ready to call them our overlords just yet.Analytics are valued precisely because they debunk guys like Pierre.
Totally agree, but Pierre sounded a lot like the scouts spittin' BS in Billy Beane's war room in Moneyball.Analytics also give Benoit Pouliot a $20 million contract so I’m not ready to call them our overlords just yet.
Because some people spout Corsi like it’s the end all, be all. Both sides can be deaf to reality in this instance.Totally agree, but Pierre sounded a lot like the scouts spittin' BS in Billy Beane's war room in Moneyball.
It's like baseball's advanced statistics. If you don't use the whole dataset, you're going to miss something. Tonight's game is a great example of that. Even strength CF% favored the Bruins pretty heavily (57.1-42.9). However, the High-Danger Scoring Chances at even strength may tell the story better: 1st period, 7-0 Tampa, rest of game, 7-6 Bruins. In other words, even as the Bruins were tilting the ice with lots more shot attempts in the 2nd and 3rd, they were getting into prime scoring opportunities as often as Tampa.Analytics also give Benoit Pouliot a $20 million contract so I’m not ready to call them our overlords just yet.
The high danger chances in the 1st were even worse. They were 10-1 Tampa. Boston D was hanging Rask out to dry on way too many occasions. They were lucky it wasn't 5-1 at the end of the period.It's like baseball's advanced statistics. If you don't use the whole dataset, you're going to miss something. Tonight's game is a great example of that. Even strength CF% favored the Bruins pretty heavily (57.1-42.9). However, the High-Danger Scoring Chances at even strength may tell the story better: 1st period, 7-0 Tampa, rest of game, 7-6 Bruins. In other words, even as the Bruins were tilting the ice with lots more shot attempts in the 2nd and 3rd, they were getting into prime scoring opportunities as often as Tampa.
The one thing that gives me pause here is how many goals have been a direct or near-direct result of a braindead error rather than just straight up inadequacy. Maybe it’s a distinction without a difference, as they’ve also been pinned in the defensive zone with regularity in situations that haven’t always resulted in goals but certainly could have.Game 2 was the same way. Game 1 they were rusty after not playing for a week and it showed. Watch them defend and watch the Bruins defend. I hope I'm wrong but I don't think they have the talent on defense to win if Tampa plays well.
He was like that in Game 7. The comeback spared him from criticism for looking like a corpse and having a general inability to clear the puck out of the d zone.The one thing that gives me pause here is how many goals have been a direct or near-direct result of a braindead error rather than just straight up inadequacy. Maybe it’s a distinction without a difference, as they’ve also been pinned in the defensive zone with regularity in situations that haven’t always resulted in goals but certainly could have.
I do think they at least have the talent back there to be much better breaking out of the zone to (ideally) initiate offense than they have been. Some of it may be a matter of a game plan tweak, as they’ve looked unusually lost far too often just trying to string one pass together.
Chara looks to me like he does when he is playing hurt. An extra step slow, unusually weak on clearances, and shockingly unable to hold off forecheckers. Nobody’s at 100% at this point but I’d guess he’s farther away from it than most.
Thoughts the day after since I finished watching this AM.
Can't expect to beat a team as good as Tampa when you spot them two goals early.
Krug and Grz look over-matched. The Grz early blunder was atrocious...that just can't happen.
Man people love getting on Tuukka. My only issue with him is some of his decision making when playing the puck. Seems to put his guys in a tough spot with a pass along the boards at the knees when he could simply pull it off the boards and let them play it.
Do the Bruins win faceoffs clean out of the offensive end more than any other team? Frustrating when you finally get to stay in a draw and it splits the seam between the D.
PK was great, but they need to stay out of the box and start finding a rhythm and winning the 5/5 game.
Not happy with the zebras. What is a slash / high stick this series? Still, it's not on them.
Need a spark so I think we'll see Donato.
Pierre sucks.
Win game and make it a best of 3.
They're also playing a big role in that one team is allowed to be more physical than the other.Yes... they need to do all that, but they also need some help from the refs. The refs aren't the cause, but they are also playing a big role in the team not being able to get into a rhythm.