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#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
subthread OP

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that the stats models were predicting probabilities overwhelmingly in favor of the Pens. I was just interested in the unanimity of different models being in favor of one team, versus pundits being nearly unanimously in favor of the other -- and what can be said about analytics, the eye test, etc. I can't recall another series where that was the case.

Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
SJS @ PIT, 5pm Pacific, game 1.

STANLEY CUP FINALS, Y'ALL.

Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
A quote from the Sharks' coach: "We're stronger, we're harder, and we're much better looking."

Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Did they really boo Paul Martin?!?!?

Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
It sounded like a mix of boos and cheers. But then, it sounded a second ago like they booed Kunitz, though that could be 'Kuuuuuuu' or something.

Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Brian Dumoulin: consistently several inches taller than I remember him being.

Re: Fandom Goggles

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
And meanwhile Duke is all getting off on the thought of "okay, so you're going to be telling me EXACTLY when/where/how much/what kind of touching you want". He pretty much goes into this *expecting* a certain amount of orgasm delay/denial/sex fail at times, and he's okay with that so long as it doesn't actually endanger either of them because he's that far gone. (He totally makes Max tell him what minimum safe distance is to jack off without Max picking up on it at some point, though.)

I don't want falling in love to *fix* Max's diabetes, but I'd be fine with familiarity and mutual feelings making it a lot easier to gauge how much intimate contact works for both of them down the line. Like he's always going to have to be careful, sure, but he knows the limits better than he ever has.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Lightning straight up are weaker defensively and in goal (and also more injured) compared to the Sharks

I... don't agree with this re: goaltending. Martin Jones has been great, but Vasilevsky's ECF performance was absolutely phenomenal -- most impressive player on either team.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
In previous seasons I could master most charts by checking to see where Sidney Crosby was and then looking for Adams or Glass. This season I haven't understood ANYTHING.

Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe they were yelling Boo-urrrns?


(I'm so happy there's a Burns playing. I'd have made the joke anyway, but it would have been exponentially shittier.)

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
+1
Vasilevskiy tried his hardest to make up for the Bolts defense forgetting how to do anything. I think the Sharks defense is much stronger comparatively, which gives Jones more help than the Bolts gave Vasilevskiy (and makes it easier for him to get shutouts, to be quite frank), but I think it's hard to argue that the Lightning have a weaker goalie than the Sharks when imo the Vasilevskiy+Bishop combo is one of the best in the league.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
You must have been a fan of the Glass-to-Crosby scale :P

Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
This gave me a chuckle, so I really appreciate your (fitting!) comment!

Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
You saw a chance and you took it. Respect.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
I have to agree. Jones had some great performances, but he also looked incredibly shaky at times. Vasilevskiy was spectacular from start to finish, imo.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
ayrt

Yeah -- defense absolutely does affect goaltending, mentally, in terms of confidence, but also in decision-making, in what the goalie can and can't trust his D to do. Lundqvist's deteriorating performance in the first round imo was mostly the result of the failure of the Rangers' defense. And Jones has had nights where he's let in tons of goals due to the failure of his D more than his own performance. And all that makes Vasilevsky's performance behind Tampa's D all the more impressive.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
DA
Is there a way to do a defense-independent goalie stat at all?

Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not watching but shots are already 8-2 Pens?? Are the Sharks pulling a Lightning? (please don't pull a lightning, that hurt my soul).

Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
Most of the shots came off a power play.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'm generally pretty weirded out by people talking about how hot coaches are, and I'm incredibly ambivalent about the shipping I've seen, but Sullivan is crazy attractive to me. I don't even like the Pens! But him yelling at Malkin on the bench and sassing the refs does something for me.

Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
4 of the Pens' shots came on the PP (only one in the game so far), if that helps at all.

Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Oh god, every time my air conditioning kicks in, my tv signal goes wonky for a moment and my heart jumps thinking I'm going to lose it. The weird stresses of having an antenna.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
ayrt

Not that I know of, but @nmercad and others do interesting stats work on goalies, there's probably links on his twitter!

Re: Game Day Thread: May 30, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
That HBK Primanti Bros. sandwich apparently has ham for Hagelin, bacon for Bonino, and kielbasa for Kessel. Which, given hotdoggate, is pretty amusing.

Re: SCF Predictions Thread

(Anonymous) 2016-05-31 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Cool, thank you!