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RPI Hockey 2014-2015: Dedicated to Rich Curadi

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lugnut92 said:
I'm pretty sure we lost every faceoff after Cornell pulled their goalie. If we did win one, we lost control almost immediately.
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I believe that we only won one in that time. What bothered me was that Bubela took every faceoff except one. Is he supposed to be our best faceoff man? That doesn't say much if he is. Of course if Curadi had scored into the empty net instead of hitting the post, we might not even be discussing this.
 
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RPI fan 4 life said:
I believe that we only won one in that time. What bothered me was that Bubela took every faceoff except one. Is he supposed to be our best faceoff man? That doesn't say much if he is. Of course if Curadi had scored into the empty net instead of hitting the post, we might not even be discussing this.
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I mean, if he's the center, he's the center. I don't think we were able to make a change the whole time, so unless we wanted one of our wings to try and win the draw, it's Bubela.
 
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Just off topic for a second-a very brave kitty-Corey-lost her battle tonight at 8PM. Like a true hockey player she gave no indication of discomfort or fear. We have now lost 4 in the past few months but at least they reached reasonable ages(but certainly not ancient) as cats should at least be able to reach their teens. Wondeful animals who only hurt us when they leave us.

On topic-i really wish when we have the chance to get that empty net goal we get it. It certainly looks good on paper and it narrows our overall net negative GF vs GA.
 
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DrDemento said:
Just off topic for a second-a very brave kitty-Corey-lost her battle tonight at 8PM. Like a true hockey player she gave no indication of discomfort or fear. We have now lost 4 in the past few months but at least they reached reasonable ages(but certainly not ancient) as cats should at least be able to reach their teens. Wondeful animals who only hurt us when they leave us.

On topic-i really wish when we have the chance to get that empty net goal we get it. It certainly looks good on paper and it narrows our overall net negative GF vs GA.
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My sympathy
 
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lugnut92 said:
Well deserved.

Kazzy was a shoe-in as the only goalie with 2 wins and a shutout on the weekend, but Neal was a little less certain. He's certainly come on of late, and hopefully he can keep it going, especially once our ECAC schedule starts back up in two weeks.
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Someone didn't notice what his own present school did when it comes to goaltenders. ;)
 
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DrDemento said:
Just off topic for a second-a very brave kitty-Corey-lost her battle tonight at 8PM. Like a true hockey player she gave no indication of discomfort or fear. We have now lost 4 in the past few months but at least they reached reasonable ages(but certainly not ancient) as cats should at least be able to reach their teens. Wonderful animals who only hurt us when they leave us.

On topic-i really wish when we have the chance to get that empty net goal we get it. It certainly looks good on paper and it narrows our overall net negative GF vs GA.
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Please add my sympathies too. This month has been especially hard for me as I attended the funerals of a cousin (87) and a co-worker (57, too young). I have experienced the loss of several cats over the years and it never gets any easier. While none of mine passed recently, my sister lost one of hers (Bruno) in November and my next door neighbor (Molly) in October. Watching them failing and not being able to help is the greatest source of angst; I do find comfort in the fact that they are no longer suffering. I also find solace in the realization that each cat I lost provided me with years of joy which far outweighed the last few bad weeks of sadness.
 
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DeepRed72 said:
Please add my sympathies too. This month has been especially hard for me as I attended the funerals of a cousin (87) and a co-worker (57, too young). I have experienced the loss of several cats over the years and it never gets any easier. While none of mine passed recently, my sister lost one of hers (Bruno) in November and my next door neighbor (Molly) in October. Watching them failing and not being able to help is the greatest source of angst; I do find comfort in the fact that they are no longer suffering. I also find solace in the realization that each cat I lost provided me with years of joy which far outweighed the last few bad weeks of sadness.
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Amen to this; I had attended the funeral of my buddy's wife, who was barely a few months older than me. It's never easy, but life continues, and memories of the person can have a positive shape on life to come.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Someone didn't notice what his own present school did when it comes to goaltenders. ;)
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Yeah, but Kazzy > Lyons, so he doesn't really count :D. Also, Colgate and Cornell are somewhat better competition than Brown and Brown.
 
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Yesterday, CHN added a "Shot Metrics" page to their schedule page which shows detailed shooting information.

Here's the page from the Cornell game:
http://www.collegehockeynews.com/box/metrics.php?s=20142015&gd=647

I was noticing that over the last couple games, RPI has racked up far more blocked shots than their opponents (as in, opponents shots are being blocked by RPI). Since there doesn't seem to be a way to view these stats in aggregate, I scraped the page to CSV and did some simple analysis to get the big picture:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D4aXyrsc0ZDvqgRj2YVUd_9_SIURylWWPEY2yx8mJqY/view

RPI is blocking 25.0% of shots, compared to 21.7% for our opponents. On the negative side, it should come as little surprise that RPI has a low shooting percentage, just 3.7% of total shots result in a goal compared to 5.1% for their opponents. While I haven't calculated stats for the league average, it would seem like that's due for a regression!

Hopefully someone else finds these stats as interesting as I do!
 
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lugnut92 said:
Well deserved.

Kazzy was a shoe-in as the only goalie with 2 wins and a shutout on the weekend, but Neal was a little less certain. He's certainly come on of late, and hopefully he can keep it going, especially once our ECAC schedule starts back up in two weeks.
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And Wilson was nominated for ROTW.
 
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RHamilton said:
Yesterday, CHN added a "Shot Metrics" page to their schedule page which shows detailed shooting information.

Here's the page from the Cornell game:
http://www.collegehockeynews.com/box/metrics.php?s=20142015&gd=647

I was noticing that over the last couple games, RPI has racked up far more blocked shots than their opponents (as in, opponents shots are being blocked by RPI). Since there doesn't seem to be a way to view these stats in aggregate, I scraped the page to CSV and did some simple analysis to get the big picture:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D4aXyrsc0ZDvqgRj2YVUd_9_SIURylWWPEY2yx8mJqY/view

RPI is blocking 25.0% of shots, compared to 21.7% for our opponents. On the negative side, it should come as little surprise that RPI has a low shooting percentage, just 3.7% of total shots result in a goal compared to 5.1% for their opponents. While I haven't calculated stats for the league average, it would seem like that's due for a regression!

Hopefully someone else finds these stats as interesting as I do!
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A fairly common tactic for teams that lack high end rush offenses is to simply dump as many shots on net as possible. Goalies are human and make mistakes, its often good to give them as many chances to make mistakes as possible. That would theoretically correlate with an increase in actual shots taken, on net or otherwise, controlling for quality of opponent. It would be interesting to see that stat chronologically to see if there has been a fundamental change in their approach in the offensive zone or not.

The biggest change I have seen the last few games has simply been taking better care of the puck on our half of the ice. Less careless giveaways and boneheaded passes in our own end make for smoother play across the whole rink. The Cornell game was especially good in that department. They have a strong defensive core when they are playing conservative hockey in our own end of the rink.

I'm not sure if its a function of 'playing from behind' as much as 'playing against stronger teams', but they are 5-1 when they score first, and 4-15-1 after giving up the first goal, but if you assume they have a chance at beating everyone they play to some degree, that first goal seems pretty important to them.
 
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RHamilton said:
Hopefully someone else finds these stats as interesting as I do!
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Ooooh, stats...

I'm curious who put this page together for CHN, because they're definition of "close" differs from what's used when discussing the NHL. First of all, "Fenwick Close" refers to the stat Fenwick (unblocked shot attempts) when the game is close. Second, "close" is usually considered to mean a one goal game in the first two periods (not two, as stated by CHN), or tied in the third.

In any case, I wish they would provide totals for shot attempts in categories other than "Total". When considering these stats, one usually ignores events that happen when the game is not close (due to the all powerful "score effect") and when the teams are not playing five a side (i.e., not a PP, EN, or 4x4/3x3 situation). We can mostly deduce these values from the numbers that are given, but it would be nice if CHN provided them.

In any case, I'll do some playing around with these and throw together some fancy charts for things like 5v5_CF%, 5v5_FF%, PDO, and all that nonsense.
 
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hrbrendan said:
A fairly common tactic for teams that lack high end rush offenses is to simply dump as many shots on net as possible. Goalies are human and make mistakes, its often good to give them as many chances to make mistakes as possible. That would theoretically correlate with an increase in actual shots taken, on net or otherwise, controlling for quality of opponent. It would be interesting to see that stat chronologically to see if there has been a fundamental change in their approach in the offensive zone or not.

The biggest change I have seen the last few games has simply been taking better care of the puck on our half of the ice. Less careless giveaways and boneheaded passes in our own end make for smoother play across the whole rink. The Cornell game was especially good in that department. They have a strong defensive core when they are playing conservative hockey in our own end of the rink.

I'm not sure if its a function of 'playing from behind' as much as 'playing against stronger teams', but they are 5-1 when they score first, and 4-15-1 after giving up the first goal, but if you assume they have a chance at beating everyone they play to some degree, that first goal seems pretty important to them.
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Scoring first has a positive correlation with winning in many sports, or at least the ones that don't have a metric whackton of scoring, like squeakball or roller derby.
 
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