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The Flyers goaltending: Not as bad as you think (and other netminding myths)
Mr. Ray Emery. The troubled soul. And, along with Brian Boucher, the latest in a long line of Flyers netminders that has tried to take over the No. 1 job in Philadelphia and do away with the stigma th...
Putting your faith in the 'new' stats
Received a great email a little while back asking about some of the relatively unheralded statistical work going on in hockey: Hi James: I've been trying to read up on some of the new (at least new ...
2008-09 season in review stats pack
Well, it's mid-July so that means season in review season for me. I generally do some work for a few magazines and annuals around now, including the McKeen's Hockey Yearbook, and as part of that, I pu...
How hard is it to win the Stanley Cup?
The best posts always start with a question or questions that I don't know the answer to, and this one began with a few doozies: How many players win the Stanley Cup anyway? Has that number changed, o...
Hockey's hottest team? It's Carolina
Lost in all the love-ins for some of the NHL's bubble teams these days is the fact that it's actually Paul Maurice and the Hurricanes who have actually been the league's top team the past month. Taki...
Islanders: The NHL's most-injured team
My sincere thanks to a reader who provided all of the man games lost totals for the past four seasons for all 30 NHL teams. There's some fascinating stuff in here. Totals for this season are 82...
Ranking the 2009 trade deadline
Every year, there's some panic about noon that nothing's going to happen. Then it's a mad dash to the finish and tons of trades come pouring in after 3 p.m. At the end of the day, this year was a fai...
The playoff push: 90+ points or bust
UPDATED with Saturday games (56 games left in reg. season) Given there's just a week left in the season, this will be the final update of the playoff push. My thanks to everyone who followed along an...
A Rod Langway Award update
Just based on what I've seen so far and looking at the numbers individually, I figured Chicago's Duncan Keith would be atop this list at this point. He's had a phenomenal season, and really should be ...
The NHL's most improved forwards
We're more than one-third into the season, so now's a decent time to take stock of who some of the breakout and rebound players of the season are. A few have been getting headlines; others may come as...
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