Micah McCurdy
Perhaps the Rangers will wheel Reimer out again; if they don't he'll have an impressive single-season showing of +164% G/xG. (The league took one of the saves away, so only had the five saves in the end)
[puts on special fancystat cloak] Three goals on nine shots on goal is known to the enlightened as "not great"
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Replying to @cscheid.net
Exactly, this is why the task view of visualization doesn't work. You back yourself into a corner where calculating things for people would always be better, so there must be another reason we use vis. To me we use vis to communicate/understand structure and relationships, not "retrieve values"
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The free game of the night on HockeyViz is Lightning at Avalanche, the most likely cup final. All game charts: hockeyviz.com/game/2026020167
I never tire of pointing out the picket fence that always forms in the bottom right of these sorts of plots. Korpisalo - Jones - Talbot - Bobrovsky forming the edge of "if you were better, you would play more".
Since he entered the league in 2015, only Shesterkin and Sorokin have better per-shot results (vs non-trivial shot quantities) than Hellebuyck, and no goalie has shouldered even close to the amount of workload.
I made a thread of some great reasons to subscribe to my website.
One wonderful thing you can do with your money is give some of it to me every month, by subscribing to my frankly excellent website, hockeyviz.com/subscribe. This is wonderful in two ways, because I get your money and you get beautiful understanding of hockey. This thread has some details!
The free game of the night on HockeyViz is Panthers at Senators. Personally, I'll be hoping for a huge game from the superstar forward returning to the club that made him a household name. I know not everyone will agree with me, but I love Lars Eller so much. hockeyviz.com/game/2026020...
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