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Friday Roundup - Changing Field Position
Tune in on any Fall Saturday or Sunday to catch a football game and you're bound to hear plenty about "field position." Teams are routinely praised for drives that start deep in their own end and pi...
Monday Roundup - Fixing The Power Play
With the sixth-rated power play in the League (22.5% successful), it might seem odd to discuss what's wrong with the unit. But "wrong" is a relative term, and with just three goals scored in 21 chan...
Your Best Penalty Killer
As cliche as it is, there's truth to the old hockey-ism that in order to survive shorthanded, a team's goalie must be its best penalty killer. Given how poorly the Caps' penalty kill has performed on ...
Skater Goals Against Averages And Save Percentages
On Sunday, Mirtle took a look at how a goalie's play at five-on-five impacts a skater's plus-minus and questions whether or not there's enough evidence to establish that the relationship is a two-way ...
An Update On Forward Scoring Rates
You may recall back in September when we took a look back at the 2007-08 Caps forwards in terms of their scoring rates. Well, 25 games into the 2008-09 season seems like a decent enough time to check ...
This Week In Corsi
There was no TWIC last week, so this week we're looking at the entire fortnight past - seven games and a 3-4-0 record (and only ten players from the Opening Night roster were able to play in each of t...
Verizon Center Giveaways
There's nothing like a good giveaway at a home game... as long as you're talking about promotions. When you're talking turnovers, however, it's often another matter entirely. By all accounts, Karl Al...
Special Teams Trends
The Caps' power play has been red-hot of late, with goals in eight straight and a 34.4% efficiency over that span to jump up to seventh in the League overall. But as good as the power play has been, ...
Thanksgivings and Takings
For a while I've wondered if there was a way to quantify the effectiveness of a forward's forechecking ability and the ability of a defenseman to withstand pressure from opposing forwards. Well, (huge...
Muir-acle On Ice
According to Behind the Net's "On-Ice vs. Off-Ice +/-" Rating, Bryan Muir is the fifth-best player in the NHL (or something). The methodology is simple enough (and perhaps too simple): [C]ompare a pla...
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