Rich

No single stat should be used as a single source to make a decision or paint a picture, but I do find the advanced analytics interesting. As to the sniff test ... I wasn't questioning your dissatisfaction with his tweet, I simply asked why you would consider Points Above Expected to not be a real stat.

Why would you not consider it a real stat? 82% tells you how many field goals they made vs attempts. My understanding of points above expected is it takes into account the distance (or difficulty) of the field goals attempted and made.

Buff's no move clause means he would get plenty of say if he is put on the block.

Apparently Chris Jones is pulling in 750k / year for being both head coach and GM.

Maurice has said similar things to this this year. You can shelter rookies in most other positions on the match-ups you give them and the situations you put them on the ice. As they learn and prove they can handle things, you can increase the things you ask them to do. You can't with goalies, they are out there all the time for everyone to see the good and bad.

Yeah sorry had it explained in a prior post but that went as well. Had to revert to a Thursday night backup. Wasn't a lot of activity today. Mostly lost Friday.

So the site was backup for a bit but people couldn't login. It would only work if you had a login through an existing session. We've gone back a few more days in time to an older dump. But I think we should be running again.

Like it matters. He was just going to get sent back down anyway.

I'm curious how hands on people think Chipman is or should be? Chipman isn't really a hockey person. He is a business person. It's Chevy's job to make these decisions. The types of things you bring up here seem too far down in the weeds for Chipman to sign off on. Those are all hockey decisions not budget decisions. And I don't think you can make the argument budget stops you from bringing in a more veteran goalie. Same with Trouba and Buff.

Seems to me a lot of the buzz about looking at who a player is playing with is coming from the Toronto media. When have you ever heard an argument like this before for rookie of the year? Truth is, unless the stats they put up are an absolute blowout, Toronto media will find any excuse to pump up / vote for Matthews over Laine.

Vegas gets the same odds in the lottery as the 3rd worst team for the first round. Meaning they could draft anywhere from 1 - 6. They will select 3rd in each subsequent round.

He did say it was in the same universe as Alien. By not connected maybe he meant that the ship that they find in Prometheus isn't the same ship we see in Alien. So not directly connected.

It isn't at all clear unless you are a huge fan. I've actually never seen any of the original Alien movies in their entirety. Watched Prometheus when it first came out on Netflix thinking it was just a sci fi movie and when I realized there might be an Alien connection, I did a bunch of reading on it after.

Here is a comparison of what they call the "Space Jockey" from Alien 1 (top) to the Engineers from Prometheus. The Space Jockey of course would have been decayed and sitting there for however long before they found it.

The humanoids from Prometheus are called "Engineers". Unclear at this point if that refers to them creating humans, the Aliens, or both. Apparently in one of the first Alien movies, there was a scene that had one of the humanoids in full armour in their spaceship "driving chair" that was never addressed. Prometheus was supposed to start filling that hole. The current plan I think is to have two more movies that bridge to Alien. Some theories out there is that the Engineers race was split into factions. Some of which colonised planets and were the "science" type guys. Some of the theories for Prometheus is that planet it place on was a military base for the Engineers and the Alien was created as an experiment that had gone horribly wrong. So the humanoid from Prometheus would have been from the military branch of the engineers. I think the basic premise of Prometheus is the Engineers created us along time ago, and now the Engineers (maybe a different faction) were going to go back to kill us. Maybe the Alien was created to get rid of all the planets an opposing faction seeded. Tough to say how much the next two movies will clear up what it all means.

Seems to me we already had this thread, and can use this one if people have more to add.

This is the first year that Thorburn has been a healthy scratch as often as he has made his way into the lineup. Just because there was interest in prior years, doesn't mean there is interest this year. The best we could get for Stafford, who can play his way up the lineup if needed, was a conditional 6th round pick or a 7 round draft. What do you think Thorburn's value on the market even is this year? You really think Chevy held onto Thorburn if there was interest out there? And you honestly think that means Chevy was lying in prior years if there wasn't? Lots of things this organisation can be criticised for. Failing to trade a part time 4th line forward isn't one of them.

No clue if that is their official twitter account, but it looks like it is run by someone who is the same age as the CHL players. The funny thing is that the CHLPA website links to this twitter account https://twitter.com/thechlpa

An hour to go until the trade deadline. Been a boring day so far.