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Coaching Effect Continued

By junior on September 21, 2010, at 9:12 pm

A few days ago, tentative as a newborn horse, I took my first steps towards bashing together some statistical analysis of my own. I was trying to help address one specific issue that might be relevant to the upcoming Leafs’ season: against which statistical measuring geegaws, come the end of the season, should we assess […]

September 21st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: NHL, Statistical Analysis, Toronto Maple Leafs | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Setting and Measuring Expectations: The Leafs Coaching Staff

By junior on September 16, 2010, at 12:21 am

In search of a clean slate for the X's and O's

For Leafs fans, the upcoming season will be an important one. Though it is (once again) extremely unlikely that the Leafs could win the big silver beer stein on offer at the end of the postseason tournament, fans of the team will be […]

September 16th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Hockey, NHL, Statistics, Toronto Maple Leafs | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

Jason Blake: When More is Less

By junior on November 7, 2008, at 1:06 am

Tonight, over at Pension Plan Puppets, in the Leafs/Bruins live game thread, mf37 posted some numbers about Jason Blake’s shooting percentage. Essentially, the stats indicated that, between 2003 and 2007 (i.e. during his final seasons with the Islanders), Blake’s shooting percentage doubled (and in ’07 nearly tripled) over his then current career average. Since joining […]

November 7th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: New York Islanders, NHL, Theories Dept., Toronto Maple Leafs | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)