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Even in his wildest dreams, head coach Gary Pinkel would have not envisioned what his Tigers did last season. And then Cinderella arrived!
The Tigers went to the SEC title game and were one of a handful of teams that had a shot to play in the national title game, had they won the SEC Championship. The Tigers lost a high scoring affair to Auburn, but Missouri's story was an incredible one to follow.
They had their best season in history, posting 12 wins, a spot in the SEC title game, and a Cotton Bowl victory. Missouri won seven more games in 2013 than the five win total they earned in their first season in SEC play back in 2012.
Missouri's offense will have the luxury of bringing back QB Maty Mauck. Mauck came in last season and did well while QB James Franklin was out with an injury. Mauck threw for over one thousand yards and 11 TD's, and brings a solid skill set to the Tigers, as he can elude defenders with his feet. Mauck rushed for 229 yards and a TD in 2013. He will have to get familiar with three new WR's this season - all three of the Tigers' leading receivers are no longer with the team, and that is a bit of concern.
The Tigers do have some experience at RB with Marcus Murphy and Russell Hansbourgh back in the fold.
Over on defense, the Tigers were hit hard by the draft and graduation. In my opinion, the best player on the Tigers defense was Kony Ealy, who is now in the NFL. Same with the Co-SEC Defensive Player of the year in Michael Sam. Both players had great seasons in 2013 and their leadership is going to be missed.
In 2013 LB Kentrell Brothers emerged as a legit defender. As a sophomore, Brothers had 70 stops along with three interceptions. The top returning pass rushers are DE's Markus Golden and Shane Ray. Golden and Ray combined for 11 QB sacks last year.
The Tigers' schedule sets up for Missouri to once again get off to a hot start. I can see a 5-0 start occurring before a big road trip to South Carolina takes place. Then the Tigers have an off week before hosting UGA and then going back on the road to take on the Gators. If the Tigers can come out of that three game stretch 2-1, I think that Missouri will once again be a factor in the SEC East title hunt.
Alabama Crimson Tide:
When you start a season 11-0 and lose your last two games, that is still a great season, right? Not in Alabama! Love them or hate them, Alabama is the most consistent football program in the game today, and I don' t think their roll will stop anytime soon. Alabama will walk back onto the gridiron as the favorite to win the national title. Not many programs, if any, could lose a solid veteran QB in A.J. McCarron and still be the favorite, but Bama is doing it!
I do think that replacing A.J. is going to be much more difficult than most expect. Even though the Tide will support their new starting QB with an abundant amount of weapons, having a calm, cool, "been there done that" guy in the huddle and under center is something that is irreplaceable. Alabama has the luxury of grooming up their new QB without major pressure to come in and make plays.
Three excellent RB's are in the fold to lead the Tide offense. T.J. Yeldon (6.2 ypc) led the SEC in rushing last season with an average of 144 yards per game, while Kenyan Drake averaged a whopping eight yards per tote last season. Drake had some off-field issues earlier this summer but is expected to be with the team. And of course there is Derrick Henry, who was a bright spot in Alabama's 45-31 Sugar Bowl loss to Oklahoma. Henry carried the ball eight times for 100 yards and he hauled in a TD reception as well. Handing the ball off to either of those three RB's will make things much less stressful for the new QB and the new offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin.
Alabama also welcomes back the speedy Amari Cooper. Cooper averaged 18.4 yards per catch during his sophomore season and should be a big boost to the Tide air attack in 2014. Alabama has a couple of Louisiana boys at the WR spot and both could see some playing time.
Former Carver standout Raheem Falkins is a big 6-4 WR that could make an impact, and WR Cam Sims is from Monroe. Sims is another big target at 6-4 and he got to campus in the spring. Veteran WR DeAndrew White is back this season too.
Over on defense, the Tide just reload each season. LB Trey DePriest leads a solid core of LB's and DB Landon Collins could see his last season of playing for the Tide, as Collins is expected to be among the nation's elite defenders entering his junior season.
A'Shawn Robinson and Jarran Reed both looked impressive in the Tide's A-Day spring game. Depth and experience is not a concern, as many players see valuable playing time when games are out of reach. And those times are when Nick Saban is at his best preparing his future starters for their time on the field.
Alabama opens the season with an interesting game against WVU. The Mountaineers are not expected to be among the better teams in the Big XII this season but WVU does some things on offense that can create problems.
The toughest part of the Tide's schedule takes place from early October through early November. Florida, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Tennessee and LSU appear in that stretch. The final game has the Tide hosting that other team from the state in the annual Iron Bowl.
Alabama would have to slip and fall not to be among the nation's elite team's. Road games at Ole Miss, Tennessee and LSU are intriguing but the Tide have been in so many big games at home and on the road that very little rattles this team.
Another run at the SEC Title and the national title are certainly in the forecast in 2014. Put it this way - you might hate Alabama, but nobody hates money. And wether it's you're money or my money, it would be wise to bet on this Tide to roll!
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After an exciting season that finished with wins over rival Mississippi State and a Bowl win in January of 2014, the fans of the Ole Miss Rebels are hyped about the 2014 season.
With one of the top recruiting classes in hand, including the nation's best player, the Rebels looked even more ready to become a serious player in the SEC Western Division going in to 2013.
But a 3-5 SEC mark that included a loss to rival MSU on Thanksgiving kind of put a damper on the Rebels eight win season. Ole Miss did beat LSU, and won eight games for the first time in four seasons, but I think the Rebels and coach Hugh Freeze were expecting more than that. Is 2014 the year the Rebels rise to the top in the SEC West?
The Rebels offense was OK last season, averaging 421.5 yards per game - but to only score 23 points per contest was disappointing. If the Rebels can be excited about one phase of their offense it has to be the passing attack and the return of veteran QB Bo Wallace. Wallace was second in the SEC averaging 283.4 yards passing per game and the Rebels were 2nd in the SEC as a team in passing yards last season.
Wallace is back and so is WR Laquon Treadwell. Treadwell was one of the best freshman players in all of CFB last season, and I think he was a top five WR in the nation in 2013. The freshman sensation was 2nd in the league averaging seven receptions per contest for the Rebels. WR Evan Engram is back too, and that should allow Wallace to have two legit targets going into the season.
At RB the return of I'Tavius Mathers and Jaylen Walton gives Ole Miss some good balance as both have good speed, and bring solid skill sets to the Rebels offense. Ole Miss finished 8th in the SEC in total offense this season and I look for the Rebels to have a top 5 unit in 2014.
The Rebels defense needs to improve. Allowing 422 yards per game and 28 points are not going to get the Rebels where they want to be in the stout SEC Western Division. It's easy to overlook the fact that the Rebels are still very young on this side of the football. Robert Nkemdiche had a nice season as a freshman but the nation's top high school recruit had to battle injuries and at times played like a freshman.
DE C.J. Johnson returns and should add pass rushing help to the Rebels front and does NT Issac Gross. Gross had 3.5 sacks last season and is expected to be better as a junior.
The Rebels defense saw a lot of young faces hit the field and the hope of playing so many young players is that they begin to pay off this season. Trae Elston and Tony Conner are two examples. SS Elston saw significant action during his sophomore season in which he averaged six tackles per game. And Conner recorded five tackles per game as a freshman in 2013.
The Rebels will know quite early how good they are to start 2014. I think the Rebels have one of the tougher schedules in all of CFB.
Five of the Rebels first six games are against teams that played in a bowl last season. The opener is a tough one against Boise State in Atlanta. Then the Rebels play at Vanderbilt before coming home to entertain a nine win ULL Ragin Cajun Team that is predicted to win their conference.
The Rebels annual tilt with nearby rival Memphis takes place before a biggie against Alabama. Now I cautiously say this, but if the Rebels could somehow be 4-0 when Alabama comes to Oxford, then it's on! Ole Miss got burned last season when they put all of their eggs in one basket and seemingly hinged the entire season on how they played against the Tide. It was not even close as Alabama wiped the floor with the Rebels.
Ole Miss is in a better place overall with their football program. Are the Rebels ready to become a serious consistent contender in the SEC West? We will find out!
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"Hunt together or die alone" is the tagline RaiderZ holds, a game which implores players to group together and hunt fantastical creatures or literally, die alone. So, before I jump into my first week in playing this game, I'll give you a bit of background information. Developed by MAIET Entertainment, widely known for the online game Gunz: The Duel, RaiderZ is a free to play action MMORPG. Set in the Kingdom of Rendel, a once prosperous nation, has now become ridden with fierce monsters and it is up to you to claim peace to Rendel.
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Originally posted by Slukjan
Any player feedback as to what this game is like and if it's any good?
Good, but not great from my experience in beta. Not good enough to take time away from the other games I am playing like GW2 and TSW...The best way to describe it is that it's a grade B version of Tera.
For a F2P game its great and as mentioned the game isn't limited at all. These is no need to spend $ at all! The crafting system and loot system is a nice change. The only down side for the game ( which I hope will change when more people play it ) are being around to form groups for dungeons etc. Also it is a bit of a grind at the higher lvls 32-35. ( However more quests might open up as I get closer to 35 )
Just my thoughts!
I find the game fun. It has action oriented combat with active dodge and passive targeting. You can have a target selected, but must have it in reticule to hit it from range.
The mobs don't drop armour. They drop bits that you use to craft items, weapons, and armour.
There are standard quests, nothing really new there.
The controls are a bit different and can take some getting used to.
I really like the class system. You start with a specific archtype and must spend points in that up to a certain amount, then you may spend points in other classes. You can create a hybrid or a pure class. It's sort of an interesting twist on traditional D&D single/multi-classing only the class is determined by skill choices not by picking a new secondary archtype.
It's F2P, give it whirl.
Originally posted by Slukjan
Any player feedback as to what this game is like and if it's any good?
Can't put my finger on why, but it's surprisingly good. It's against anything I like (dumbed down system to the core, laughable crafting, the questing could be shown in presentations how to make a linear, on-the-rail quest system), but it's fun. Maybe the combat... or not, since I don't like action combat usually.
So you can imagine my surprise, when I had fun with the game.
I admit it's not a very useful feedback I already put about 20-30 hours in it since open beta started, so far got a defender/cleric (like a paladin, plate armour, melee dps/tank, with some heals) and a pure cleric. And still don't know why is the game holding me...
Maybe the bossfights are the best part.
"grade B version of Tera"
B might be pushing it. Grade C version maybe. But this game does remind one of Tera due to the almost exact same combat system and the overall simplicity of everything else.
It has almost the exact same combat system as Tera, with fewer skills, no real perk tweak like Tera's rune things, one race - period, fewer classes (noteably no archer type), similar (lame) enchantment system as Tera, simplistic crafting system, even more simplistic questing than Tera and Tera's questing is ultra simplistic so that's saying something.
One noteable difference in the combat system that will hopefully be fixed/changed. If you're a caster and you have your reticule over a mob and cast, that spell will land, period - whereas in Tera if a mob moves or something, you miss. It seems to go against action combat to have ranged abilities hit whether you place them well or not, may as well be tab targeting.
Similar to Tera you feel like zones or whatever you want to call them exist purely for doing quests - there's nothing interesting to see really, nothing there that isn't quest related, nothing to explore. Just plow thru areas to do hub-based questing.
The game has oddly high sys reqs considering Tera, which uses a slightly dated graphics engine, utterly crushes it for graphics.
The mechanism for building your character is marginally interesting.
The game is oddly fun even with it being simplistic. Maybe mindless slaughtering of mobs doing kill 7 quests 10 feet from the quest giver is something we need periodically.
And it's free and would seem to not have P2W leanings - although it's still early and their cash shop is nowhere near fully populated or setup yet.
I guess that begs the question, why does RaiderZ have an ungodly amount of gold spammers and reviews in progress when I swear it's still in beta?!
I kind of like the action combat systems of this game and Tera, although I think Tera does it better, and I wish a game like GW2, which has incredibly content and sexy zones to explore and dabble in, had a combat system like this. GW2 combat is kind of between tab target and stand there and action, but action is so much more involving, even in a simplistic game like RaiderZ.
I also don't care much for the eastern feel and I don't like anime or the squeaky noises character make. RaiderZ has the obvious eastern styleings. I could tolerate the easternness of Tera since the female avatars look like supermodels (or high class hookers, depends on your persective I guess).
I'm hoping Neverwinter, also action, also published by RaiderZ's Perfect World, ends up having the slickness of action combat without the lameness of eastern influence and with much slicker content.
Premium MMORPGs do not feature built-in cheating via cash for gold pay 2 win. PLAY to win or don't play.
Originally posted by Voqar
I'm hoping Neverwinter, also action, also published by RaiderZ's Perfect World, ends up having the slickness of action combat without the lameness of eastern influence and with much slicker content.
Neverwinter is being developed by Cryptic using an entirely different engine. I'm looking forward to Neverwinter as well.
It's awesome for f2p, also compared to terra I like this one more because of crafting.
Well if anyone from australia is wanting to play and wants to chit chat to a person in the same time zone feel free to /w enesis Normally play after 7pm. Happy to make you feel welcome to a game with such a diverse community of people. ( that at times can be slightly frustrating and lonely )
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Originally posted by Slukjan
Any player feedback as to what this game is like and if it's any good?
Think of Terra, but fun.
Terra had a good idea, but somehow managed to make the combat incredibly dull.
RaiderZ on other hand meshes the Terra style of stuff with Monster Hunter style of encounters and some unique combat mechanics. The game is filled with gigantic boss encounters from the first levels.
Freeform-class system also helps(bassically you can learn any skills from the trees of the classes and you can equip two weapons at once, which you can switch in the middle of combat, going from close-tank to ranged caster,for example, within miliseconds of one button push).
There are no item drops - monsters only drop crafting materials and stuff like that, which you then use to create the items you want.(which IMO is not only nice for immersion, but also solves the problems of set-hunting other games would suffer from).
There ARE some problems like abit slower pacing in levels 30 to 40, but for me at least, RaiderZ is bassically what I expected of Terra before I found out what Terra is actually like.
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I Realy love this game, the block style, the maps, and the item farm that always are bored, in this game not happen, the daylis quest are amazing.
Im a Defender lvl 30 and i have to say, I like this game.
there are a litles problems, but in a new game its normal
Well, played for a while but quit after realizing that its perfect world with updated graphics, most core mechanics are the same, and the feel is the same.
The difficulty of this game is kinda bullshitty, with bosses that are inmune to everything but damage. and the end game will get grindi as hell. The blocking and dodging is fun and it does rely a lot on player skill, wich is a plus (as long as you have no lag).
The combat and setting is C9+Tera minus the never ending instances. Now combat for the game is trying to be like Monsters Hunter that we all know but it lacks of alot of elements MH has that should make it feel more liek hunting. Not all monsters have breakable pieces you can gather
from. Two no cool side tools like traping and junk only time you can use something other then your weapon is the monsters weapon or knee cap lol crawler and that rarely happens. There is alot of kill stealing. Gold Spamers and a ton of forgin players. There is a european and Korean RaiderZ but they seem to play on that cus of the ping or some shit. None I mention kill stealing yeah sure if your all fighting the monster you'll get the quest finsh. But if you fail to attack the monster or your team doesn't first then your shit out of luck. You will not get drops you so despately need. Guilds also have no incentive or any real purpose. Transforming is useless. And there is instances for soem field boss's but not all of them. Oh did anyone mention lag spikes and crashs is theres alot of that. And omg customer service sucks so hard. Tickets go unanswer or fail to provide a postive answer to most of your problems. Theads get moved,removed or lock with out your knowing. You can't mention ot compare the mmo to tera or c9 they bleep it. And mods only reply to you on a theard if people are complaining enought.
So yeah not saying not to try it or I hate it. but The number of issues not being address is just wow like really. You sure you guys beta tested this? And why bother labeling it NA since everyone and their momma overseas is playing it. And if your super love with this game then you most likely havn't played any recently release AAA titles or new free to play action rpgs before. Like Tera,C9 Guild Wars 2,TSW what else trys to moved away from standing place in tab targeting uhhh OtherLand! Brawl Busters,s4 League umm Micro Volts Games like that.


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Three minutes of fame
June 24 2009 02:41PM
We're still taking donations! We've achieved our goals for sending Jason Gregor to the 2009 NHL Entry Draft to cover all the goings-on for the OilersNation. But we still want to raise as much money as possible for the Stollery Childerns Hospital Foundation! Donate today!I spent most of my life watching ITV News here in good old E-town. I remember the weather with Bill Matheson and sports with Darren Dutchyshen. Lately, of course, I catch the six o'clock news with Lynda Steele and Gord Steinke. Obviously, Global hasn't been called ITV in ages. Clearly, the only hockey knowledge I possess is stuck in that era of local television. But what might not be obvious is that tonight, I along with ON's own Jason Bartholomew Jefferson Gregor VII will be on The Early News at 5pm with Lynda Steele.
When you crazy citizens of the Nation decided you wanted to send a writer to the Draft, Wanye and I were floored. "Draft!?" we thought out loud. "Why it's preposterous! It's insanity! It's exactly the type of nincompoopery we like from our readers!"
So we posted the handy donation button and let you guys go buckwild. It took about 24 hours to get to the total we needed to send Gregor to Montreal, and then you wonderful Denizens of the Digital opted to donate any overage to the Stollery. I thought this was newsworthy, so I Twittered Lynda Steele, and she suggested Gregor and I come in for an interview.
And it was rad.
We made our way to Global Studios this afternoon, and met with Lynda when we arrived. I immediately handed over a box of 24 cans of Vitamin-P covered in OilersNation stickers with a note written on it:
"Some libations for the crew at Global TV from Wanye Gretz."
At least I think that's what it said. Wanye was drunk when he wrote it with a sharpie in his mouth.
Lynda took us straight to the studio (pictured above), where the famous "I'm" Bob Layton had just finished doing one of his segments. (And no, Bob doesn't appear to have a radio voice. He always talks like that.) I accidentally bumped past Bob as I was putting my stuff in a corner. I said "Sorry Bob," without even thinking. Yeah, sorry, Bob, old friend. Are we still on for dinner later this week, Bob? Because we're good buddies given that we occupied the same room for two minutes together JUST AN HOUR AGO, BOB.
I'm an idiot.
Bob was gracious, of course, said it was no problem. Still, I expect his segment tonight will go something like this:
"Young people are so rude these days, bumping into their elders, using their first names without permission. This generation needs to learn some manners before the entire city plunges into the cold, black abyss of the North Saskatchewan. I'M BOB LAAAYTON."
Anyway, Gregor and I finally sat down with Lynda to shoot the segment. Lynda's as nice as she seems on TV (read: very). She asked great questions and kept things moving. As quickly as the segment started, it ended. But you can catch it live on Global tonight at 5pm.
Before Gregor and I left, I gave Lynda two OilersNation T-shirts. One for her, and one for her co-anchor Gord Steinke.
Sorry Gord, no OilersNation neckties yet.
Classic! I haven't been in there since the "Hi-Q" days with Mike Sobel.
I am so in love with this website! Hi-Q?? GOLD! Keep your EYE... on the Idaho HIGH! Truly hallowed ground, fellas - can't wait to see the interview!
Lynda's a fox. I already set the PVR to tape and the phaser to stun. Awesome. How much money has been raised for the Stollery, or will we not know that until Gregor's last dirty movie has been paid for?
Looks like doubling readers in the offseason is going to become a tradition. Come on Canadian Rank 8000!
@ Archaeologuy:
We discuss the money raised in the interview, so I'll let you grab your info that way. My hope is that after the broadcast, we raise a few more dollars for Stollery.
@ bingofuel: Cant wait to watch the interview. I'll be at work tonight so let me just say congratulations again to ON and the Nationeers for raising money for such a great cause while finding a way to give the Nation exactly what it wanted.
Kudos. Good work.
@ Archaeologuy:
I looked the other day & you can watch the early news on Global Edmonton Website - Archived.
socaldave wrote:
I am so in love with this website! Hi-Q?? GOLD! Keep your EYE… on the Idaho HIGH! Truly hallowed ground, fellas - can't wait to see the interview!
..the most dreaded of all meteorological phenomena.
How can it be on live at 5 if its already been taped?
Can you post a link to the spot they archive the show? I'm not able to find it...
@ Jack Bauer:
The *show* is live, but the segment was taped because Gregor has a radio show to do, and I have to make sure you miscreants keep your shit together. ;)
BUCK75 wrote:
@ bingofuel: @bingofuel http://www.globaltv.com/glo... - Early News Interviews
Stupid copy from twitter...broken link
Nice, can't wait to see it.
Ok Adam... you KILL me! Honestly... you and Wanye Gretz are both hilarious - and by the way - it was actually 3:20 minutes worth of fame.
@ Lynda Steele:
Hahaha, awesome! AN EXTRA 20 SECONDS!
Thanks for having Jason and me on the show. We both had fun. Make sure you check here for all your Entry Draft news... and Gordo too! ;)
June 24 2009, 04:02PM
OHhhhhhhhh MAN! I've got the 'sner and popcorn ready for 5 PM. That'll was my plan for supper anyway...but instead of watching Judge Judy...I will watch Oilersnation history!
Pure awesome.
Hemmertime wrote:
Looks like doubling readers in the offseason is going to become a tradition. Come on Canadian Rank 8000!
How do you get that information... I feel a crazy "rah rah" feeling when I see the nation ascend to greatness.
@ ON OK guys now Lynda Steele is posting on here. How groovy can one website be anyways? This really is turning into an online NATION! We even have a coat of arms (well... a part of an arm... a fist).
bingofuel wrote:
And no, Bob doesn't appear to have a radio voice. He always talks like that.
Haha, No kidding. When I was a kid I was friends with his son Chris and I remember being scared to stay at their house for dinner the first couple times I was invited because of his dad's voice. PASS THE SALT!!! WOULD YOU LIKE SOME GRAVY?? Scary stuff.
Hi-Q had nothing on 4 O' clock rock. That made Mike Sobel.
June 24 2009, 04:13PM
Awesome stuff! The best part is that this isn't just a reflection of the hard work of the staff here (particularly Bingofuel and Wanye, who have both been tireless getting writers and making this site better), but also a reflection of the community spirit here.
You're all crazy of course, but it's a good kind of crazy ;)
Nice one "Adam". Haha. Your cover is broken now dude.
The Global people are great. BTW - Nicola Cosbie is smokin'!
I would spoon with any of you right now.
@ David S:
Nice one "Adam". Haha. Your cover is broken now dude.
True. I've never been particularly concerned about being found out, though. I use my real name on Twitter and such. But yeah, you'll all know who I am now. Scary stuff! I have a lawyer on retainer prepared to start dishing out restraining orders. ;)
I can print gord a nation tie...
@ bingofuel: What a lovely living room you hav..... I mean uh...
*starts walking away and whistling in a nonchalant fashion.*
I wont be able to get home in time to watch it. Can you guys record it and put it on youtube?
Nation tie? Pfft...when do the Wanye Gretz ties become available?
@ Jack Bauer:
I don't know how to do that, but if any citizens of the Nation know how, please help us out and post to YouTube if you can!
I hate childern.
bingofuel wrote:
But yeah, you'll all know who I am now.
Something tells me you won't ever have to buy a beer at Hudson's again. Heck, I'd buy ya one. Well played sir!
Someone plz youtube this.
I can youtube it...
here we go
"Something tells me you won't ever have to buy a beer at Hudson's again."
This wont get you free anything at Hudsons. The most youll get is maybe not being used as a line block when they have to have a "lineup" outside.
Congratulations guys. I phoned my wife to tell her one of my twitter contacts was going to be on the news, and could she PVR Global news at 5. The first question she asked - is this the broccoli guy again? I had to laugh as I told her it was.
Nice work - looking forward to those ON ties!
all I can find is this ad.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2_wzCtP4pA
uploading to youtube right now.
@ Sandra:
Thanks an oldie but a goody. The Global segment will likely be up later tonight or tomorrow.
And now, my darlings, I'm going to go out for a victory meal with my girl. Try not to burn the place down while I'm gone!
@ 17:
You're super-fast! Thanks so much for doing that for us, 17.
@ The Menace:
The broccoli guy? Eff, come on! You can start calling me the cat-lady now that I've changed my avatar. ;)
@ bingofuel: cept I'm a her :P
nice work boyz!
@ 17:
Uh... Shit... Um, yes.. GOOD SHOW I LOVE YOU PLEASE DON'T BE MAD AT ME.
June 24 2009, 05:58PM
17 wrote:
uploading to youtube right now.
what did you save it under?
Video is currently being processed, but it should be up soon:
@ 17: you have a link?
17 wrote:
oh crap, forgot to replace the t's with x's hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmXnizYKMOU or click my name. Still being processed but it should be up soon.
June 24 2009, 06:05PM
Haha, that was great.
They called this "low budget"
*shifty eyes*
Now Gregor better be hitting us up with some premium info
*more shifty eyes*
Jack Bauer wrote:
This wont get you free anything at Hudsons. The most youll get is maybe not being used as a line block when they have to have a "lineup" outside.
Well, you know, uhhh, because now people know who Bingofuel is, when he drops in for a beer they might..ahhh forget it.


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Should the Edmonton Oilers claim Adam Hall off waivers?
Jonathan Willis
March 15 2013 11:09AM
Photo: Michael Miller/Wikimedia
On Friday, the Tampa Bay Lightning placed 585-game NHL veteran Adam Hall on waivers. The 6'3", 213 pound centre is a guy who in a lot of ways would look pretty good centering the Oilers' fourth line right now. Should the team claim him?
There are definite positives to adding Hall to the roster.
Faceoffs. Hall has won 56.4% of his faceoffs this season, 59.5% of his faceoffs last season, and 55.0% of his draws the year before that. He's also a right-handed faceoff man, where both Shawn Horcoff and Eric Belanger are lefties – he would give the Oilers their only reliable right-shooting faceoff taker (right now Sam Gagner's basically the choice by default in that role, and he's less than ideal for it).
Penalty killing. Hall has been the Lightning's most-used penalty-killer in each of the last two seasons, though he's dropped to second this year. He's not a guy like Mike Brown, who has been used in the role in the past from time to time – he's a specialist who gets leaned on heavily in it.
Defensive zone work. Hall's coaches have not hesitated to use him in his own end of the rink. This year at even-strength, for example, he's been on the ice for 13 draws in the opposition zone on 5-on-5 – and 98 in his own end. Previous years haven't been as ludicrous, but they've been heavily weighted towards the defensive zone.
Physical game. Hall is big, hits regularly, and drops the gloves once or twice per year.
Versatility. Hall plays both centre and right wing.
Contract. Hall is on a one-year deal that pays him $650,000. He's dirt cheap, and low-risk.
There are some negatives, too, some of them associated with the player and some of them associated with the team.
The 50-man list. The Oilers have 51 men under contract, 49 of them on deals that count against the NHL's 50-contract limit this season. They're already painfully inflexible, and adding Hall will push them to the limit.
This year's shot metrics. It's perhaps unsurprising, given his radically defensive-oriented start, but the Lightning have been getting dominated with Hall on the ice at even-strength. Of interest, here, is the fact that a) in previous years, Hall hasn't been getting hammered like this and b) it's a lack of offence, rather than poor defence. Hall's shots for are very low but his shots against rate is roughly average with the rest of the team. So while this is technically a negative, I'd argue it's a long way from damning.
Offence. As hinted at in the last point, Hall's offensive numbers leave much to be desired. He has no goals and four assists in 20 games this season, and had just seven points last year. Interestingly, he has had more success in the past – in a three-year stretch with Nashville he scored he scored 43 goals – but he's not going to be a guy who drives offensive results.
My Take
Remember back when Shawn Horcoff and Eric Belanger were hurt and the Oilers were running Chris VandeVelde as their fourth line centre? This is the guy the team should have had in the job. Judging by the fact that he's on waivers now, he couldn't have been all that expensive – and inserting an honest-to-goodness faceoff guy, penalty killer and useful hockey player into the centre position would have been a very good idea. The team's refusal to address the problem and instead do things like 'play Ryan Smyth in the middle' and was baffling at the time and baffling in retrospect.
In a perfect world, the team would have traded for this guy a month ago, sending away something small – say a fringe prospect like Alex Plante (or for that matter Chris VandeVelde) for the player. Assuming Hall clears, he will earn $650,000 in the AHL. A guy like Plante earns $65,000; VandeVelde $62,500. Maybe Tampa Bay has some elaborate plan to fetch a better return if Hall clears waivers, but it seems unlikely that there's a long list of teams lining up to pay a guy six figures to be in the minors.
In a less-than-perfect world, the Oilers would have sent out a contract in a trade yesterday, before the Lightning put Hall on waivers. They really need to move a contract if they want to bring this guy in.
Because of the contract limit, I would understand if the Oilers chose not to make a waiver claim. But based on his history, Adam Hall is a better NHL player than Lennart Petrell, and he fits team need in a way that none of the Oilers' umpteen wingers do: by playing centre. With all due respect to Ryan Smyth, the Oilers are a better team with him on the wing and actual centre at centre on the fourth line.
This is exactly the kind of guy the Oilers could have used as a 13th or 14th forward while they were out signing Darcy Hordichuk and Lennart Petrell to new contracts this summer. He's exactly the kind of guy who would have been really handy when the great centre plague of 2013 struck the team. Now, he's arguably less important, given where the Oilers are in the standings, but he would probably still make them a better team.
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This makes way too much sense to actually happen.
March 15 2013, 11:44AM
can we IR someone?
or trade Plante for a chocolate milk?
CHOCOLATE milk?! Typical Oilers fan, throwing out ridiculous trade proposals.
March 15 2013, 11:35AM
It blocks us from being able to trade Smid for Crosby and Malkin.
March 15 2013, 12:45PM
Boy if I had a nickel for every player we wanted off waivers... Please shut up about claiming players off waivers. It seems every player that's put on waivers we want. Hell, even Dipietro was considered a good idea to us. Has anyone else noticed we have a ridiculous surplus of sh*t bottom 6 players and 3rd pairing defensemen? Jeez look at the big picture, we need impact players, not these hopeless fringe players destined for the A..
March 15 2013, 11:17AM
Only if he changes his first name to Ryan
March 15 2013, 11:39AM
ICBW, but the only way to get rid of contracts, is to either buy them out (have to wait until summer), or trade them away.
"Hello teams - Hords, Eager and Peckham are available... hello?"
can we IR someone?
or trade Plante for a chocolate milk?
March 15 2013, 11:45AM
@The Beaker
Please. Obtaining Crosby and Malkin would be a terrible idea because we wouldn't have the cap space to re-sign Jones and Whitney to their extensions.
March 15 2013, 11:56AM
I vote to claim him all the way. Then they just need to off load a bunch of useless contracts like Eager, hordi, belanger.
March 15 2013, 12:02PM
We need to stockpile as many Hallsy's, Shultz's and players with the first name Ryan as we can because it's the key to winning stanley cups
March 15 2013, 12:13PM
Steckel to ANA for a minor leaguer and a 7th rounder. Tamby couldn't make that work?
Huge center. Prorated $1.1 UFA. Low risk insurance.
YES. Let's double up on Halls.
I completely agree. Then we can play the Hall's with the Schultzs' while 4 on 4 and give the broadcasters fits. I can imagine opposition coaches shouting things like "COVER SHULTZ, WATCH HALL" and the team just being confused.
In all seriousness though, this kind of a tough one as unless we're sending out Belangier, and then planning on putting Petrell, Brown, or Smyth in the press box, there's not much room for this guy.
Like you said, if the Oilers were going to do this, it would have been done by now. I do take some encouragement from this though, and that is that there are ways to upgrade our bottom 6 without having to give too much up.
Big LW with size, retool bottom 6, one top two defender, back up goalie. Get it done Tambi.
March 15 2013, 01:28PM
Well that's your opinion to whether you'd play him. One thing you need to ask yourself is: do you want to get another fourth line caliber, hitting forward that doesn't chip in offensively?
Screw the notion of "grit", it isn't working. You get what you pay for, and our lineup is just as stacked in awful players as it is in young guns. These players are not the answer to our woes. If you want to talk about grit that can actually score then I'm more open to that. What I'm saying is that we obviously don't need these players, why gwt another one?
Belanger isn't much of a hitter and he not all that gritty. He's also small but was supposed to provide at least a little offense. I've rather swap him out with a guy that is bigger, gritty, hits a lot, wins a lot of face offs and provides just as much offense as Belanger has. And there are teams that will be looking for vet center depth like him and the Oilers can move him for a low pick.
Hall would be a gamble of sorts but very low risk. If he doesn't work out you just don't sign him in the off season. These are the sort of risk/rewards scenario's the oilers need to explore at this point.
That was a shot in the dark. Next you're going to tell me 6th and 7th round picks have value because Zetterberg and Datsyuk were drafted in those rounds.
It's more accurate than saying the 6th and 7th rounds of the draft are just full of garbage.
Nobody is arguing that adding impact players isn't the way to go, only that every way to improve a team should be evaluated properly. You garbage analogy breaks down when you assess who is currently on the Oilers 50 contract list - Hords, Eager and Peckham to name a few. I would welcome garbage in comparison.
Please provide a list of all these 'impact players' who are currently available, if you feel that's the only way to go.
March 15 2013, 01:42PM
four things others have noted that I want to hi-light.
1. going into this season the depth at C was weak. The fact that we are this late in the day and nothing has been done is criminal. And, at every stage options were available that weren't explored, also criminal.
2. if Hall is available via waivers now, he was available for a pick (a shrewd GM probably could have got him for less than was paid for Brown) when the Cs all decided to die. The team made a decision then to stand pat and throw Lander then Arcobello then VDV then Smyth to the wolves. Grotesque.
3. If a guy like this -- an immediate upgrade on a pivotal position you are weak at -- comes available FOR NOTHING... you don't effing hesitate and evaluate. You make the damn move. There is no way putting in for Volpatti, or giving away the farm for Brown, makes more sense than Hall.
4. A good GM would make the move and then find a way for manipulate the 50 man roster. If they let the 50 man roster work as an excuse that is criminal. Don't tell me they can't find a team with room on the 50 man that will take a Plante with an expiring contract who arrives with a duffle-bag full of cash off our hands. I don't buy it.
@Word to the Bird
I am not an argument, and won't waste any more of my time reading your posts.
If Belanger was done for the season then I would see doing this waiver wire pickup.
However Belanger should not be that far away and then he plays 4th Line centre. Smyty goes back to wing.
YES. Let's double up on Halls.
It's appealing to go after a guy like A Hall, but I think the Oilers are trying to save a contract spot for a US college player.
The Hordi signing is really looking bad right now.
March 15 2013, 11:18AM
It's appealing to go after a guy like A Hall, but I think the Oilers are trying to save a contract spot for a US college player.
The Hordi signing is really looking bad right now.
There's no possible way we could somehow free up a contract spot or two?*
He played 2 years with Horc, the Captain will have some insight on this guy.
Centre, Good Size, Good PK. Lets grab this guy!
Ya i agree, Contract limits are going to negate any chances of picking this guy up on waivers.
Going into the trade deadline with 50 contracts has to be uncomfortable (Unless management doesn't plan to do a damn thing this year - like last year).
There's no possible way we could somehow free up a contract spot or two?*
ICBW, but the only way to get rid of contracts, is to either buy them out (have to wait until summer), or trade them away.
"Hello teams - Hords, Eager and Peckham are available... hello?"
Considering how much dead weight we have in those contracts, it's surprising that somebody isn't getting in trouble for the problem of too many contracts. It could be limiting. Fire someone! :D
March 15 2013, 11:29AM
ICBW, but the only way to get rid of contracts, is to either buy them out (have to wait until summer), or trade them away.
"Hello teams - Hords, Eager and Peckham are available... hello?"
Those three are the only players we have who can be traded?*
Isn't this the reason why the Oilers are not already at 50 contracts? So that when a piece comes available that fits in so many ways, they can pick it up? It's not as if they can carry forward being under the limit by one, and use it next year.
A. Hall would be a great pick up but man that 50 man contract cap is going to bite us in the ass if we want to sign a college FA. we need to trade away a contract badly, pretty sure Hall will be claimed by someone.
Boy it sure would be nice if Tambi could pull a 3 for 1 trade anytime in the last year?! This just illustrates how much it is needed to A) Bring back 1 player with more value. and B) Free up contract spots for moves when opportunity arises. I fear as stated no move will be made on this player. But if not now then surely before this summer Oilers should be freeing up more potential space? Opportunities will be there when all the teams having difficulties getting under the lowering Cap start to move players they cant afford.
And here is a link with his Corsi and Zone Starts from a few years ago, liking Hall to some guy name Brodziak who played in some place called Edmonton. http://gospelofhockey.blogspot.ca/2009/03/outliers-hall-and-nash-i-mean-draper.html
Hall will probably get claimed by someone, but I don't think it will be us.
I really don't see the downside. He's a much more usefull player than any of the guys who have been available on waivers so far this year, and he fills a short-term need on this club.
I don't even buy the 50 contract limit thing as a legitimate reason not to. If claiming him doesn't put us over 50, then what's the problem?
March 15 2013, 11:36AM
A. Hall would be a great pick up but man that 50 man contract cap is going to bite us in the ass if we want to sign a college FA. we need to trade away a contract badly, pretty sure Hall will be claimed by someone.
Signing College FA's is really high on the priority list atm? when did this become a big issue?
Those three are the only players we have who can be traded?*
No, but their usage by RK deems them the most expendable, and therefore they are doing nothing except plugging up the contract limit.
Also, US college free agency has always been quite important, and there are a couple of players who are deemed by some to be 'NHL ready'. Also - Justin Schultz.
can we IR someone?
or trade Plante for a chocolate milk?
We might want to consult some of the lawyers on Lowetide to see if choc milk is in the MoU.
March 15 2013, 11:45AM
Justin Schultz was definitely a special situation. And you dont just go out and sign guys because they are NHL ready, they have to be good and fit into the system. If there's someone out there of import then sute but I think the focus should be finding guys who arent rookies anymore unless they are gifted --> Schultz
@Romulus' Apotheosis
I'm pretty sure that even Tanya Harding's boyfriend can't help us out of this.
March 15 2013, 11:46AM
We might want to consult some of the lawyers on Lowetide to see if choc milk is in the MoU.
It isn't contemplated specifically but could fit under any number of headings.
@The Beaker
Think of the US college free agents like free draft picks with 3 to 4 years of maturation time. These guys can prove to be very valuable to an organization, but they are not going to come in and turn your team around instantly.
March 15 2013, 11:54AM
I'm pretty sure that even Tanya Harding's boyfriend can't help us out of this.
Do IRed players count?
I know they don't to the cap... what about the 50 man?
I'm sure if Boston can offload Thomas to evade these kinds of issues a creative GM would find a way to trade a player like plante plus a hunk of Katz' money to a team with room on the 50 man
March 15 2013, 11:57AM
I know, I'm not saying they aren't an important avenue to be pursuing (after all, we just made a huge signing for Howsen to help out here...) just that I'm wondering when this became vogue if you will around these parts. I've read more about college free agents this year than any other I've followed the Oiler's blog circuit. Maybe its just a hangover from signing Schultz but its not like there are going to be players like him every year.
oh and don't mind the sarcasm, its been a long week.
Belanger should be back soon.
Hall doesn't seem to be an upgrade on him. Both have good faceoff % and play in defensive situations and the PK.
Hall has 28 hits and 11 BS in 20 games. He only has 16 shots.
Belanger has 13 hits and 13 BS in 21 games but 29 shots.
I don't think that there was any justification to bring this guy in in the offseason with Belanger and Lander in the fold. I wouldn't think he is worth wasting a contract on now.
Yes PLEASE!!!!
March 15 2013, 12:03PM
Really good point about him being a college teammate with Horcoff. Missed that.
If they sign a college player does that contract come into effect immediately or is it a contract for the following season?
March 15 2013, 12:05PM
We need to stockpile as many Hallsy's, Shultz's and players with the first name Ryan as we can because it's the key to winning stanley cups
So Bobby Ryan isnt a trade target?
This seems like the just the guy we are looking for, please Mr.Tambeenlayingonthecouchallyear pluck this guy off of waivers.
The 50 man contract thing will works it way out before or on the deadline
I'm pretty sure Tambellini won't be putting a claim in on Hall. Tambellini already speaks to Yzerman on a daily basis to get encouragement for the rebuild; so he had to know that Hall was on the market. Sorry guys but if he's not good enough for Yzerman there is no way Tambellini is touching him.
March 15 2013, 12:08PM
What contracts are coming up at the end of the year that we have down in the minors? And how does that balance out with kids we need to sign to entry level deals this summer? Anyone have that info on hand?
Watching TSN this morning and they mentioned three of the top NCAA free agents coming out this spring.The dman who is 6'8 from the czech republic sure would look good our blueline.So would the guy who plays Right wing.6'4 225.As much as you would like to sign an Adam Hall it probably would behoove the Oilers not ensure that guys like this aren't off the table first.Guys like Adam Hall come along all the time. If its me looking to trade a contract right now it would be Belanger on my hit list.But in that same breath I am not trading Belanger unless its for a guy with more ugly. A guy who can go to the hard places and look and play alot like Mike Brown.Got enough pansies on this team. At this point I'd rather have struds on my blueline than Potter who is so soft that he makes butter look like iron.fistric and Peckham need to be in this lineup on the bottom pairing.
March 15 2013, 12:11PM
Edmonton needs to be moving bodies out, not bringing bodies in. It would still comform to managements tanking (doing little or nothing) goal though.


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Another great site for inspiration.
This one has another fun twist, it's called Architizer. It's a social network for architects to upload design projects. Many designer's, though they may design toothbrushes, look to buildings and environments for inspiration. Thought you might enjoy this one, too.
Designing products, is just as much about organizing space as it is about organizing matter. What better place to study the design of space then architecture.
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Ruth Downes was born in Sydney in 1954. She studied interior design at the National Art School, Sydney, graduating in 1975. Downes has worked as an artist at the Australian Museum in Sydney and since 1988 has run her own business in public artwork, visual identity, exhibition and graphic design. Between 1979 and 1986 Downes tutored in exhibition, furniture and interior design in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Sydney. During this period she also studied traditional architecture and landscape architecture in China. Since 1986 Downes has undertaken a number of major public art commissions throughout New South Wales. Some of her permanent public artworks include a wrought steel sculpture and mosaic at the Charles Street Wharf, Parramatta, 1996; concrete acoustic walls along the M4 motor-way, 1998; a stainless steel layered relief sculpture under James Ruse Drive bridge in Parramatta, 1998; and a water feature for Bicentennial Park, Sydney, 2000. Ruth Downes lives in Sydney.
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As a kid, my mom could be so taken in by a book and a loaf of bread, that she'd sit inert for hours devouring both. She described one such episode, where as a teenager she bought a fresh loaf from my family's favorite bakery in Nürnberg and walked the few blocks to her beloved cathedral, the Lorenz Kirche. And she sat on a wood pew from late morning until sunset, tearing into the Rye bread and Kirkegaard until she was done with both.
The bakery is still there. When anyone's passing through town, my aunt will put in a very earnest request for a few loaves to bring back down south to the mountains of Bavaria where she lives. They make gorgeous bread in the Alps but there's just something about this particular loaf. It's a smooth round rye with a very dense crumb. And it's from home.
In America, we have the powerhouse that is San Francisco Sourdough, packed with a style and flavor that is pure chillaxed west coast.
And like most great breads, both use a sourdough starter, a great mother sponge. And if you've been tending to your own starter like a 2nd grader dotes over a sprouting avocado seed, I'm sure you're ready to set that puppy loose.
Like anything of artisinal quality, this bread takes a few days. But we want to make the good stuff. So relax and enjoy.
2 cups warm water + ½ cup warm water in separate container
½ ounce of instant yeast
6 cups unbleached white bread flour
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2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons sugar
1. In a large bowl, mix 1 cup sourdough starter, 2 cups water and 4 cups of flour. Mix well, cover and leave to rise overnight.
2. Go back to your original starter and feed it. 1 cup flour and ½ cup of water. Stir it in and let it rest. If you're leaving your starter out of the fridge, feed it this amount every day. If you are allowing it to rest in the fridge, feed it the same amount every three days.
3. Rise and shine! In a small bowl with the ½ cup warm water, bloom yeast.
4. In a large mixing bowl with the hook attachment, add yeast, starter mixture along with 2 teaspoons salt, 2 teaspoons sugar and remaining flour. Kneed until a smooth stiff dough forms.
5. Cover and let rise about 2 hours.
6. Punch down and divide in half
7. Kneed until smooth and shape into rounds. Place on a parchment lined baking sheet and lightly cover with a dish towel. Allow to proof about an hour, until double in size.
8. Preheat oven to 375. Right before you put the bread in the oven, place a oven proof bowl filled with 2 cups of water, this creates steam that will create a nice crisp crust on top of the bread.
9. Bake ½ hour to 45 minutes. If you have very heat resistant paws, turn a hot loaf over and knock on the underside. If it sounds hollow, you're done.
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Savvy Singaporean Twitter users know of services like TweetSG and Widgeo, which allows you to sms a Singaporean number instead of the international number. But unfortunately, there is no way to get updates from Twitter via SMS.
No way until now at least. Enter SgBEAT . On the surface SgBEAT looks kind of pointless, it's a Twitter clone set up for Singapore with perhaps one extra feature the ability to send pictures via MMS.
It also includes one interesting feature for Singapore users, it allows you to receive free sms @s and dms sent to SgBEAT.
Okay but even that doesn't sound too exciting since not many people are on SgBEAT. But the recently released Twitter reverse link (which I was fortunate enough to get to trial before hand ), means that if anyone on twitter sends you a reply, or dms you it will not only be reflected on sgbeat, but you will also be sent an sms!
You will need to link your Twitter account to your sgbeat account first of course, when it's done, anything you post on Twitter will go to sgbeat and vice-versa. But more importantly, you get sms alerts when someone replies to you or sends you dm from either Twitter or SgBEAT!
Obviously, from the library point of view, it has the potential of becoming a cheap SMS reference service tool. Once setup, a user can tweet @nuslibraries via sms, and when nuslibraries replies via DM or @ , the reply will be pushed to the user's phone via sms.
It's not as good as NLB's SMS reference service but it's free. :)
Incidently at least one of the the founders of Sgbeat is a current student of my institution National University of Singapore. :)


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For Isaac Sweeney, an assistant professor of English at Richard Bland College in Virginia, a simple revision of his syllabus proved to illustrate an important change of direction for his classroom. The change from having two separate policies about cellphones and e-mail, to just having one "Technology" policy, showed an acceptance and honesty about how his classroom, similar to many classrooms around the country, needs to "catch up" to the present trend in education: technology as an educational tool in the classroom.
Writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sweeney talks about his firsthand experience letting students use their cellphones for class activities. Even though this may seem like blasphemy, the change in policy allows students to be empowered to use their cellphones as a tool for their own learning.


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The Mentos Third Pairing and Vigneault's Early Season Player Usage
Thomas Drance
February 04 2013 03:21PM
Nerd Credit: Rob Vollman.
It's early in the season, we still don't have timeonice.com up and running (and that may not happen all season, sadly), and there's still an awful lot of small sample noise in the advanced data. This unfortunate correlation of forces makes doing any wide-ranging analysis difficult this early in the season beyond pointing out an unsustainable shooting clip here, or some atrocious bad luck there. One thing that we can already look at, however, are deployment trends and Rob Vollman's Player Usage Charts (see the image above) are perhaps the most accessible way of doing so.
Read on past the jump.
Let's begin with a qualifier: the data you'll find in the above chart still isn't perfect and there's still some "small sample" noise in the quality of competition component of the chart (for some teams more than others). But the results are interesting nonethless, and based on a quick cross reference of the chart and Vancouver's head-to-head ice-time, the quality of competition noise doesn't show up too much in Vancouver's team specific Player Usage Chart. That allows us to proceed with a greater degree of confidence, but we should still be wary.
Here's how Rob Vollman - who drew up this chart - describes the Player Usage Charts he created over at Hockey Abstract:
Player Usage Charts were first introduced in the 2011 off-season as OZQoC Charts after their two primary components: Offensive Zone Starts (OZ) on the horizontal axis and Quality of Competition (QoC) on their vertical axis. OZQoC charts were quickly adopted by dozens of statistical analysts, and even some front offices, most of whom also made various improvements...
Now because of Alain Vigneault's radical "optimized" deployment schemes, Vancouver's player usage charts have been exceptionally interesting by league standards over the past couple of seasons. I wrote about their Player Usage Charts from '10-11 and '11-12 in a post last Spring, so you can check that out if you want some additional background.
Looking over the differences between Vancouver's deployment the past two seasons and this season, there are three things that stand out to me in particular.
The Fourth Line:
The first is that, in 2010-11 and even more so in 2011-12, Alain Vigneault did nothing to ease the burden on the fourth line in terms of zone-starts. The likes of Andrew Ebbett, Aaron Volpatti, Dale Weise, Maxim Lapierre and Manny Malhotra were thrown primarily in the defensive end at even-strength, and they often stayed there (albeit against inferior quality of competition). Manny Malhotra's offensive zone start rate nearly hit single digits last season, which is basically underheard of in the Behind the Net era. This season however, it looks like Vancouver's fourth liners, are being deployed more evenly between both zones.
A year ago Manny Malhotra, Dale Weise and Maxim Lapierre all hovered just below 20% in terms of an offensive-zone start rate (meaning they started four shifts in the defensive zone for every one offensive zone start). Through eight games this season that rate has nearly doubled in most cases, and in Dale Weise's case it has tripled to 65%. The only player verging on 25% (which is what Malhotra's offensive zone start rate was during his Selke caliber "enabler" season in 2010-11) is Maxim Lapierre.
The Third Pairing:
The second thing to notice, involves a seachange in the deployment of Vancouver's third pairing, and this is where this gets really interesting. Check out Vancouver's "Player Usage Chart" from a season ago and you'll find that Vancouver's primary "third pairing" guys (Aaron Rome, Andrew Alberts and Keith Ballard) are all paired neatly together. Vancouver's third pairing during the '11-12 NHL season generally started about forty percent of their shifts in the offensive end, and played against inferior quality of competition. This season so far, the third pairing is starting 55% of their shifts in the offensive zone - a massive shift - and are facing even softer competition.
This is a trend that Cam Charron began to point out last week, actually. The Keith Ballard - Chris Tanev pairing is playing a whole whack of minutes for the Canucks at even-strength, but they're doing so while playing entirely against the bottom end of opponent's rosters.
So what matters more to me than the third pairings "offensive zone start percentage" or their particular slot on a player usage chart, is how that deployment impacts Alain Vigneault's ability to dole out minutes among his blueliners. Follow this intuitive leap with me if you would: by giving the third pairing easier minutes, Alain Vigneault is also able to give them more minutes. Meanwhile the top-four plays tougher minutes, but play significantly fewer of them. Make sense?
Consider that a season ago, Vancouver's third pairing defenseman (again Aaron Rome, Keith Ballard and Andrew Alberts) were generally entrusted with somewhere between thirteen to fourteen and a half minutes at even-strength per game. Meanwhile the likes of Bieksa and Hamhuis played eighteen or nineteen minutes plus every night at five-on-five. Through eight games this season, however, Kevin Bieksa is playing just a hair over sixteen minutes per game, while the bottom-pairing is playing fifteen and a half minutes at even-strength per game. That seems meaningful, especially when you consider the extent to which this has allowed Alain Vigneault to limit the minutes burden among his blueliners. Kevin Bieksa, for example - Vancouver's even-strength minutes leader - is playing the 94th most minutes per game at even-strength among all NHL defenseman through eight contests.
I'm not sure what angle that the Canucks are playing at precisely, though I have some theories. Perhaps the Canucks are trying to slowly get their core into game shape and are leaning on Tanev and Ballard in the interim. Or perhaps the Canucks are wary of exposing their blueliners to injury early in a shortened season, and want to do what they can to ensure that the top-four stay healthy. Here's my actual guess: it's a bit of both of those things, but mostly the Canucks are trying to keep their top-four fresh while they combat rust, suboptimal fitness levels and fatigue due to increased schedule density. Basically Vancouver's third pairing may be being used the way advertisers want you to use Mentos: as a freshmaker for the top-four.
Anyway I'd be curious to hear a beatwriter ask Mike Gillis or Alain Vigneault why Vancouver's top-four defenseman are playing so many fewer minutes this season than last. Seems like a reasonable question, right?
Trap it Up:
The final noticable change is that the Sedin line's offensive zone start rate is hovering between 65% and 70% so far this season, way down from their 80%+ offensive zone start rate a season ago. I'll be curious to see if that's a "small sample" thing, or if Alain Vigneault is legitimately giving plum offensive zone start shifts to other lines, and counting on the Sedins to be slightly better two-way players in Ryan Kesler's absence. I'd lean towards the latter theory, actually, but we'll probably never know for sure since Ryan Kesler will return before we get a clearer picture.
I'd also note that the twins are playing fewer minutes overall at even-strength: Henrik Sedin is down thirty seconds per game so far, while Daniel is down a pretty significant ninety seconds per game. Many of those additional minutes appear to be going to the checking line, as Jannik Hansen is playing nearly 45 seconds more per game at five-on-five than he was a season ago. You can go ahead and include your "trap it up" hashtag in the comments.
Why is TimeOnIce not being updated?
I don't know how that site works as I can count the number of times it appears in my browsing history on one hand. What would it take to make a clone of that site?
I am a developer and I might have some interest in helping to replace timeonice.com. Any idea where they're pulling the data from? Email me if interested.
February 05 2013, 06:55PM
Tyler, they're pulled from things like these: http://www.nhl.com/ice/gamestats.htm?season=20122013&gameType=2&team=&viewName=teamRTSSreports
Example: http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20122013/PL020134.HTM
Timeonice.com was built by Vic Ferrari, who has been slowly drifting away from hockey stats for years.
Your best bet is to contact someone like David Johnson who must have something similar to timeonice.com already, given his aggregated reports.
February 05 2013, 06:56PM
P.S. "Nerd credit"?


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What multi-dated mogul is showing early signs of Alzheimer's? He's been calling up members of his staff at odd, random hours and screaming at them about items of business completed months ago
what does "multi-dated" meanReplyCancel
uncle russ?ReplyCancel
I guess Donald TrumpReplyCancel
"Ivanka get Kenya Moore-whore on the line and tell her its the Donald that will be speaking with her"ReplyCancel
whomever this is im sad for them.ReplyCancel
Hugh Hefner?ReplyCancel
Si, Duck Dynasty. He's a hillbilly mogul.ReplyCancel
Clive Davis good guess
Morning all. Watching extant. Before world cup.. bet on Germany
Clive, he done lost his mind some time ago.ReplyCancel
Have a feeling it's Clive as wellReplyCancel
My first guess was Ted Turner.ReplyCancel
Doesn't Simmons go out with more than one model in tow these days, like a harem. A la Hugh Hefner. Unless it is Hugh Hefner.ReplyCancel
@fancyscreenname exactly. It's one hell of a disease that totally strips the person of everything. Sad and sickening to watch 🙁 btw if I rem correctly you're the one I talked to about running awhile back. Well I ran my first ever 8K last night! And I still haven't quit smoking lolReplyCancel
@essie not always. Some people become violent, confrontational, hateful, etc due to being confused and upset. My papaw was very mean in his beginning stages simply because he was so frustrated at being confused and disoriented. On the other hand my mamaw became quiet to the point she never uttered another word after the first year and 4 years later at her death, she still hadn't spoke. All depends on the individual.ReplyCancel
I think The Donald does this anyway (calls staff at all hours and yells) so I don't think this is him.
I like Clive for this.ReplyCancel
I would hope they had preventatives already in place. Or else it'll be a free for allReplyCancel
ron perelmanReplyCancel