traded for bennett, TE from bears


that TE is a beast
- homiedclown

He can be pretty damn good. Top 7 guy. If he plays up to potential. I had him on a team I drafted for a friend last year and he was up and down all year. It was brutal.

I remember him on Hard Knocks when he was with the Cowboys. He stole the show.

So they really don't like WR there do they? Edelman and Amendola are both slot guys. They have no one on the outside.

How's everybody's brackets looking? I totally didn't give a (frank) this year. My Final Four is Kansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Iowa State. I have Kansas edging Iowa State to cut down the nets. My 12 over 5 is Yale. And I actually picked Hawaii because Cal's starting PG just broke his hand today.

- homiedclown

Probably not
Maybe
Of course
Holy! Teeth!

How's everybody's brackets looking? I totally didn't give a (frank) this year. My Final Four is Kansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Iowa State. I have Kansas edging Iowa State to cut down the nets. My 12 over 5 is Yale. And I actually picked Hawaii because Cal's starting PG just broke his hand today.
- Wetbandit1

You can't ignore MichSt

Izzo is the best big dance coach of all time, and the Valentine kid is crazy.

What a wiener / whiner

Ryan Miller wary of equipment changes made in haste http://www.thescore.com/news/984312

with scoring down in the NHL

STAMKOS is even more valuable
- homiedclown

League wide Scoring has been remarkable steady over the last five years.
Less than 2% variation.

www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/stats.html

In the same years, From 2011 to 2014, Stamkos averaged more than 1.0ppg. This season, so far, also according to hockeyreference.com, he's down to 0.79ppg. 21% decline.

Sorry to break up the sparkle party.

League wide Scoring has been remarkable steady over the last five years.
Less than 2% variation.

www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/stats.html

In the same years, From 2011 to 2014, Stamkos averaged more than 1.0ppg. This season, so far, also according to hockeyreference.com, he's down to 0.79ppg. 21% decline.

Sorry to break up the sparkle party.
- Der Kaiser

Ps.: 41st best is not ELITE, IMO.
(It's not even Silver.)

www.sportingcharts.com/nh...ts-per-game-leaders/2015/

Probably not
Maybe
Of course
Holy! Teeth!
- Der Kaiser

sure
sure
sure
...sure

League wide Scoring has been remarkable steady over the last five years.
Less than 2% variation.

www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/stats.html

In the same years, From 2011 to 2014, Stamkos averaged more than 1.0ppg. This season, so far, also according to hockeyreference.com, he's down to 0.79ppg. 21% decline.

Sorry to break up the sparkle party.
- Der Kaiser

Playing to be moved ?

"The Stamkos Thing"

Thought I'd dig up some numbers on Stamkos

Linemates this season:

37 games - Callahan
31 games - Namestnikov
29 games - Killorn (including the last 15 games)
19 games - Palat
15 games - Kucherov
13 games - Filpulla
13 games - Drouin

Of those players, the top 3 guys he's played with (Callahan, Namestnikov, Killorn) have an average of just under 31 points this season (28, 30, 34).

Callahan is 30 coming off his best season in his career (54 points, 28 so far this year.
Namestnikov had played 47 games prior to this season
Killorn is a career 40-point guy

Tampa is 68 goals below last season's total (with 12 games yet to play this year), yet Stamkos is "only" 12 goals off his total from last season, despite playing with a lot of 2nd/3rd line guys.

Edit: despite all this, Stamkos is 8th overall in Goals Scored this season

"The Stamkos Thing"

Thought I'd dig up some numbers on Stamkos

Linemates this season:

37 games - Callahan
31 games - Namestnikov
29 games - Killorn (including the last 15 games)
19 games - Palat
15 games - Kucherov
13 games - Filpulla
13 games - Drouin

Of those players, the top 3 guys he's played with (Callahan, Namestnikov, Killorn) have an average of just under 31 points this season (28, 30, 34).

Callahan is 30 coming off his best season in his career (54 points, 28 so far this year.
Namestnikov had played 47 games prior to this season
Killorn is a career 40-point guy

Tampa is 68 goals below last season's total (with 12 games yet to play this year), yet Stamkos is "only" 12 goals off his total from last season, despite playing with a lot of 2nd/3rd line guys.
- stashu

Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat coming down to earth may have something to do with it.

with scoring down in the NHL

STAMKOS is even more valuable
- homiedclown

Yep and with Girgs on the Eichel line they were pretty ineffective, didn't even notice reinhart. I know it's only one game

Yep and with Girgs on the Eichel line they were pretty ineffective, didn't even notice reinhart. I know it's only one game
- turbo044

One game is enough, this is Hockeybuzz!

One game is enough, this is Hockeybuzz!
- stashu

We all knew with 28 in the top 6 we were not going to win.

League wide Scoring has been remarkable steady over the last five years.
Less than 2% variation.

www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/stats.html

In the same years, From 2011 to 2014, Stamkos averaged more than 1.0ppg. This season, so far, also according to hockeyreference.com, he's down to 0.79ppg. 21% decline.

Sorry to break up the sparkle party.
- Der Kaiser

And what is his average ice time per game this year vs. Previous years? How do his linemates compare?

League wide Scoring has been remarkable steady over the last five years.
Less than 2% variation.

www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/stats.html

In the same years, From 2011 to 2014, Stamkos averaged more than 1.0ppg. This season, so far, also according to hockeyreference.com, he's down to 0.79ppg. 21% decline.

Sorry to break up the sparkle party.
- Der Kaiser

nhl scoring is at an all time low since the 1950's



your move

One game is enough, this is Hockeybuzz!
- stashu

screw a game

one shift is enough

screw a game

one shift is enough
- homiedclown

Morning Sunshine

nhl scoring is at an all time low since the 1950's



your move
- homiedclown

Wait what?

Proof, or are you just trolling?

Wait what?

Proof, or are you just trolling?
- CoHo_to_B-Lo

It's been lower...but reaching back 60 years is quite the stretch.

I posted recently how scoring has been pretty stable for the last 20 years, with a short stint of about 5-6 years in the middle where it was up a bit.

It's been lower...but reaching back 60 years is quite the stretch.

I posted recently how scoring has been pretty stable for the last 20 years, with a short stint of about 5-6 years in the middle where it was up a bit.
- stashu

http://www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/stats.html


5 year gaa from this chart shows it is anything but a stretch


lowest since mid 1950s

It's been lower...but reaching back 60 years is quite the stretch.

I posted recently how scoring has been pretty stable for the last 20 years, with a short stint of about 5-6 years in the middle where it was up a bit.
- stashu

Well i mean goals per game has been almost the exact same every year since the mid-late 90s besides a few crazy seasons in there of extremly high goal scoring... i don't know why people keep saying differently.

Year Total G Team GPG Total GPG

1990 5,805 3.46 6.91
1991 6,123 3.48 6.96
1992 7,311 3.63 7.25
1993 7,081 3.24 6.48
1994 3,727 2.99 5.97
1995 6,701 3.14 6.29
1996 6,216 2.92 5.83
1997 5,624 2.64 5.28
1998 5,830 2.63 5.27
1999 6,306 2.75 5.49
2000 6,782 2.76 5.51
2001 6,442 2.62 5.24
2002 6,530 2.65 5.31
2003 6,318 2.57 5.14
2005 7,443 3.03 6.05
2006 7,082 2.88 5.76
2007 6,691 2.72 5.44
2008 7,006 2.85 5.70
2009 6,803 2.77 5.53
2010 6,721 2.73 5.46
2011 6,545 2.66 5.32
2012 3,822 2.65 5.31
2013 6,573 2.67 5.34
2014 6,549 2.66 5.32
2015 5,563 2.65 5.30