Capitals Power Ranking Roundup: Week 1
by EmilyB on Oct 13, 2010 2:00 PM EDT
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Our weekly temperature-taking of the mainstream media's opinions on the Washington Capitals:
| Outlet | This Week | Last Week | What They're Saying |
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2 | 1 | Set the alarm a day too late, but made up for it in the home opener. |
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All credit given to Mike Green for fighting Jersey's Ilya Kovalchuk late in an ugly game. But he should avoid fighting and stick to playing porous defense. |
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14 | 3 | The Caps rebounded from a tough opening night in Atlanta to crush New Jersey in their home opener, chasing Martin Brodeur en route to a 7-2 victory. Don't expect the Caps to stay this low in the rankings for long. |
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19 | 2 | (.500) Atlanta's only win of the week was a scary one. Two minutes into the opener Friday night against Washington, goaltender Ondrej Pavelec mysteriously collapsed to the ice during a stoppage of play. After finding out their teammate had regained consciousness at a local hospital, the Thrashers went out and thrashed the high-powered Capitals 4-2 for their comrade. (Ed. note: These appear to be the notes for the Thrashers at #20. If the comments get fixed we'll update here.) |
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All those who thought Caps would have 100 percent penalty killing and 7.7 percent power play success, please report to U.S. military’s psychic training division |
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The Caps picked up right where they left off, scoring 12 goals in their first three games. Alex Ovechkin is off to a predictably fast start and 22-year-old netminder Michal Neuvirth has been solid. Updated October 14 |
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1E | 1E | Alex Ovechkin scored an OT goal on Monday night to lift the Caps over the Ottawa Senators. Of course he did. |
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1 | 1 | Coach Bruce Boudreau is so upset at losing the season opener he had a video meeting with the players prior to Game 2. Talk about feeling the pressure early. |
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Keep in mind, it’s the Columbus Dispatch, home to one Mr. R.J. Umberger. Treat the opinion of Mike Green accordingly.
Fantasy Teams: Baby Got Backstrom (Ladies of Twitter) and All's Fehr in the Crease (Six Beers Too Many)
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Not the dreaded Columbus media bias! ;)
I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
by Rather Bengt on Oct 13, 2010 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Portzline is a good writer and nothing he said about Green is wrong.
The Artist Formerly Known as CP2Devil.
Links guy at Five For Howling.
Except that he doesn’t play “porous defense.”
But yeah, Porty’s great and just going for the cheap zinger there.
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by J.P. on Oct 13, 2010 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Far as I’m concerned, the cheap zinger ruined the whole comment because it’s a flat and blatant lie.
Fantasy Teams: Baby Got Backstrom (Ladies of Twitter) and All's Fehr in the Crease (Six Beers Too Many)
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
by gotsparkly on Oct 13, 2010 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
NOW who’s hyperventilating?
A very misguided piece on Huffington Post recently called 30 Rock the most racist show on television thanks to Tracy Morgan’s wild, manic, madcap performance. Tonight illustrated why whoever wrote that piece is full of shit and should be punched in the face until he has a more nuanced grasp on comedy.
by Bald Pollack on Oct 13, 2010 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions
Nobody. I calls it like I sees it. Humor is only humor when it’s the truth, which is why DGB falls flat for me about a third of the time.
Fantasy Teams: Baby Got Backstrom (Ladies of Twitter) and All's Fehr in the Crease (Six Beers Too Many)
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Humor is only humor when it’s the truth
Wouldn’t that mean that satire, by definition, can’t be humor?
by David Getz on Oct 13, 2010 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
I’m not sure which definition of satire you’re looking at.
Satire
–noun
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
Soon the Championship with be ours, all ours!
3 games isn’t going to change hearts and minds, we both know this (and so far anyway, looks like Green does). Roll with the punches.
A very misguided piece on Huffington Post recently called 30 Rock the most racist show on television thanks to Tracy Morgan’s wild, manic, madcap performance. Tonight illustrated why whoever wrote that piece is full of shit and should be punched in the face until he has a more nuanced grasp on comedy.
by Bald Pollack on Oct 13, 2010 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, I took the 2nd part as obvious snark.
The Artist Formerly Known as CP2Devil.
Links guy at Five For Howling.
BTW, we are somewhat impatiently awaiting TSN, CBC, and more of the usual suspects to start posting their rankings.
:: checks watch ::
You perhaps knew me better as "Your Nation's Capital." Same great commentary, now with 100% more transparency!
Your Canadian media outlets are busy converting the rankings from metric for you as we speak, Emily.
I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
by Rather Bengt on Oct 13, 2010 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
They need to carry the one and divide by π a little faster, is all…
You perhaps knew me better as "Your Nation's Capital." Same great commentary, now with 100% more transparency!
by EmilyB on Oct 13, 2010 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Irrational numbers always get a Rec…
Washington Capitals 2009-10 = Quebec Nordiques 1994-95
--- D'ohboy
by MikeL-Pivonka on Oct 13, 2010 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Hey, TSN, what’s the square root of this apartment?
by David Getz on Oct 13, 2010 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
2 Michael Landsbergs + 3 Pierre McGuires = A head that won’t fit through the doorway of said apartment.
I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
by Rather Bengt on Oct 13, 2010 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions
quite the mixed bag of opinions this week.
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Everytime powerrankings are listed, there is always a discussion on the metric used…and I always feel like it is decided (usually, " ranking of teams that, at this moment, could beat the ones below it.") But, then new power rankings come out and this metric is then flipped upside down – and some other random metric is used. I’ll never understand these things I guess, but they are fun to look at.
From the Fox Sports rankings:
“(Note: The Power Rankings will be based on a formula of points earned divided by the maximum amount of points possible [points/games played x 2]. In case of a tie, categories such as wins, goals against, goals for, power-play goals and power-play percentage will determine rankings.)”
Wow, lot’s of analysis in these rankings.
Power rankings are useless
Literally
by Bushwood Bushwhacker on Oct 13, 2010 2:59 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
But don’t you want to crow about how low the Caps are ranked/puff out your chest about how high they are ranked?
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Yea, I mean.. that is exhibit A of why they are dumb. You would need a couple alphabets to get through all the reasons why they aren’t very useful though…
by Bushwood Bushwhacker on Oct 13, 2010 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions
… but this comment, there’s real added value there.
Look, you’re free to read or not read anything you see on this site. But try to at least be respectful of the people who take time to put it all together.
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by J.P. on Oct 13, 2010 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions 8 recs
Sorry… totally pointed at the mainstream media who love LISTS of all types, regardless of whether the lists actually mean anything, or are based on any sort of logical system other than “Let’s list all the teams, write some stuff about them, and people will eat it up.” The rink does fantastic work, and I meant no disrespect.
To me they don’t provide any useful information, and rarely, if ever, reflect the actual strengths of the teams in the league going forward. Which is infuriating, because if someone who actually A. knew what they were doing and B. cared, could put together a great power ranking based on actual metrics and performance etc.. and not some drivel that someone threw together in 10 minutes before a deadline. They are all basically garbage (partly because of an inexplicable bias towards the most recent games played), yet have so much potential if they were done right.
I’ll try to be more constructive in future posts….
by Bushwood Bushwhacker on Oct 13, 2010 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks for clarifying, and I do tend to agree with your substance here, but as I pointed out below, I think it’s of some utility in checking in on how the team is perceived. But yeah, they’re lists put together to generate discussions, nothing more and nothing less.
Japers' Rink: Hockey blogging from the most powerful city in the world
Agreed. And after a week like this, maybe it adds a tiny bit of bulletin board material for the dressing room….
by Bushwood Bushwhacker on Oct 13, 2010 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions
…and the guy ranked 2nd to last would have for his comment: “Not much good going on here, but at least he’s not Jack Edwards.”
Everything ends badly...otherwise it wouldn't end.
by Davethecapsfan on Oct 13, 2010 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Sorry, was thinking play by play guys haha
Everything ends badly...otherwise it wouldn't end.
by Davethecapsfan on Oct 13, 2010 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions
The mess up will cost you a few notches on the ranking scale.
4th Floor, is next, swimvare, undervare, Eric Fehr...
Send me to the bottom. I think it would be very fehr to make me do more with less ;)
Everything ends badly...otherwise it wouldn't end.
by Davethecapsfan on Oct 13, 2010 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions
J.P. Optimus Prime wins that battle
" I don't have a certain type, only the heart can tell. If the heart responds, then it is my type."
by TheFuryUnleashed on Oct 13, 2010 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions
On my more sadistic days, I push D, Pepper and Becca to let me run a weekly “Commentor Survivor” in which folks suggest one of their own to be banned and then we poll the top three vote-getters to see who gets voted off The Rink that week. They haven’t warmed to that idea… yet.
Japers' Rink: Hockey blogging from the most powerful city in the world
How about ranking the commentors/comments on Puck Daddy or Caps Insider? I’m sure a nice list of the “best” comments of the week would be good for some guffaws.
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Oct 13, 2010 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Back in the day I used to rotate my sig around to display some of the CI asshattery. May have to give that another whirl.
A very misguided piece on Huffington Post recently called 30 Rock the most racist show on television thanks to Tracy Morgan’s wild, manic, madcap performance. Tonight illustrated why whoever wrote that piece is full of shit and should be punched in the face until he has a more nuanced grasp on comedy.
by Bald Pollack on Oct 13, 2010 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Rankings are kinda silly early in the season. Just like college rankings are in football.
4th Floor, is next, swimvare, undervare, Eric Fehr...
Like Alabama falling to #8 or wherever they dropped. They are still one of the top 3 teams in NCAA in my opinion. One loss tends to make everyone flip out.
Everything ends badly...otherwise it wouldn't end.
by Davethecapsfan on Oct 13, 2010 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Rupert Murdock doesn’t like the Caps … or ted for that matter
" I don't have a certain type, only the heart can tell. If the heart responds, then it is my type."
by TheFuryUnleashed on Oct 13, 2010 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Luckily NHL power rankings are used only by us and mean nothing in the grand scheme of things.
4th Floor, is next, swimvare, undervare, Eric Fehr...
I basically view power rankings as a measuring the amount of respect teams are receiving. Does that matter as far as winning or losing games? Of course not. But I think that how the team is perceived is of at least passing interest to a lot of people – just talk a look at how many folks hyperventilate at a Damien Cox tweet or a Pierre McGuire comment and you can see it.
Japers' Rink: Hockey blogging from the most powerful city in the world
by J.P. on Oct 13, 2010 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The same way ESPN sent CAR from #14 to #2. Consulting their ouija board.
Seriously, the mind boggles while it appreciates the elucidation of alternate perspectives which inform NHL coverage. Now is when the themes to be presented are shaped for montages to come.
The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford Clinic.
I’m not knocking power rankings since they do generate discussion, but at the same time it’s such an NFL metric used to create drama to get chatter going during the week hiatus between games.
It works, but it’s cheap and generic. The Pachelbel’s Canon of sports reporting.
Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death.
They’re definitely of use — hockey talk is (almost) always welcome! In my opinion, they can be so arbitrary that they wind up informing the reader more on the biases of the writer than on the state of hockey teams, which is useful in approaching that individual’s less soundbyte-driven work.
The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford Clinic.
It would be was different if it was who will win in the playoffs rankings …. we have the power and fury thing down
" I don't have a certain type, only the heart can tell. If the heart responds, then it is my type."
by TheFuryUnleashed on Oct 13, 2010 3:44 PM EDT reply actions
Why does FOX bother to rank if they are going to basically use win % as the sole determining factor? You may as well go view the NHL.COM standings page.
I like how ESPN says “Don’t expect the Caps to stay this low in the rankings for long.” Did they just put them that low so they can cram them back into the top 5 next week?
/sigh
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
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