As we head towards the start of the 2010-11 season, lets take a look at 9 teams who may struggle in goal. Philadelphia Flyers – Michael Leighton has been a waiver claim 4 times in the past 4 years and another time was traded straight up for a 7th round pick. Despite playing well at [...]
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Ok, let me start by stating that Wade Redden is not worth $6.5M. He may be never was and the contract (6 years, $39M) the Rangers gave Redden was one of the worst ever handed out in NHL history. In part because he is not worth that and in part because there is no evidence [...]
While I am not yet ready to make formal predictions on the upcoming season (that’ll come in a couple weeks) I believe that the Leafs have the potential to be a dramatically improved team and could/should contend for a playoff spot. Last year was a disaster year for the Leafs and nothing went right for [...]
One of my goals has always been to create a fair and true player evaluation model. Myself and many others have attempted to do this to varying degrees of success. The recent trend is to stray away from goals for and against type methodologies towards shot attempts for or against methodologies (i.e. corsi analysis). One [...]
Who is the best Shooter in the NHL? If you were asked, who is the best shooter in the NHL you might answer Alexander Ovechkin since he has been the most prolific goal scorer since the lockout. What Ovechkin also always does though is take far more shots than anyone else resulting in a shooting [...]
When Brian Burke makes a trade more often than not he does it by targeting players and going hard after them until he gets them. He did this with both Phil Kessel and Dion Phaneuf. He identified them as players he needs to fill a hole on the roster and went hard after them. If [...]
So it seems that Leaf fans are extremely excited about the acquisition of Kris Versteeg from the Chicago Blackhawks and to some extent they should be excited. He is a solid player that will help the Leafs. But, I think Leaf fans need to keep their hopes for Versteeg in check. He is a good [...]
As always, there is a lot of speculation as to what the Maple Leafs will do on July 1st when the NHL free agent season begins. Some are suggesting they should go big or go home and do whatever it takes to sign Ilya Kovalchuk as the answer to their offensive woes while others believe [...]
Behind the Net Blog recently used even strength when game is tied Corsi analysis to take a look at the divisional imbalance since the lockout and came up with an interesting conclusion. The NW division is slightly better than the SE division against all shared opponents. But SE division teams outshot NW teams in head-to-head [...]
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