Showing posts with label GA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GA. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Can the Candiens Win Without Price Heroics?

At the beginning of the season, more prognosticators than just myself suggested that the Canadiens would only better their 2012 result if Carey Price were able to turn in a better and more dominant performance.

And from the start it seemed like this may be the case. Carey was more prepared than we'd ever seen him for a season and started the year off with the cool confidence that told his teammates: "you go for goals, I'll take care of the rest."

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Interpreting the charts

Chart legend

Categories based on all NHL players with more than 10 GP, 2008-09



Chart layout



Left half: Offense

Right half: Defence


Top half: Goals for and against while on ice

Bottom half: Totals chances (Shots + Blocked shots + Missed shots) for and against while on ice


Top arrow: Direction of +/- normalized over 60 minutes (blue +, red –)

Bottom arrow: Direction of CORSI number (chances for - chances against) normalized over 60 minutes (blue +, red –)


Statistics adapted from nhl.com, behindthenet.ca, Olivier