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The Museum possesses one of the largest numismatic collections in the world. The collections include over 1 million objects, comprising coins, medals, decorations, and pieces of paper money. Among the many great rarities here are some of the world's oldest coins, created 2,700 years ago. But the collection also includes the latest innovations in electronic monetary exchange, as well as beads, wampum, and other commodities once used as money. A special strength lies in artifacts that illustrate the development of money and medals in the United States. The American section includes many rare and significant coins, such as two of three known examples of the world's most valuable coin, the 1933 double eagle $20 gold piece.
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Silver Dollar Launching Coin
- Description
- In the life of a ship, launching day is one of the most important. Mariners have long believed that a mishap during a vessel's slide from land to water foretold disaster. If the transition went smoothly, however, it was cause for celebration. This silver dollar was given to shipwright Archie Green on such an occasion in 1942, after he and his fellow shipyard workers successfully launched a C3 cargo ship in San Francisco.
- Launching ceremonies include various rituals, some of which are rooted in maritime traditions. The vessel is officially named on this day, and though not fully completed, it is ready to be moved from the yard into the water, where the final outfitting will be done. The ship is first "christened" by breaking a bottle over the bow, an honor usually performed by a woman associated with the vessel, such as the ship owner's wife or daughter. As the last of the holding blocks are removed, the ship is released into the water by the launching gang, the crew responsible for ensuring the launch's success.
- Archie Green was born in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1917 and moved to Los Angeles with his parents in 1922. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1939, he began to learn the shipbuilding trade at the San Francisco shipyards. When war broke out, he took part in the U.S. government-sponsored emergency shipbuilding program, which was established to offset the terrible losses of cargo ships by Nazi U-boats.
- Drawing from lessons learned during the First World War, shipbuilders developed plans for standardized, prefabricated vessels that could be constructed in any shipyard in the nation. The most famous of these were the Liberty and Victory ships, which transported supplies and troops to Allied positions across the world. A type C3 ship, such as the one associated with this coin, was another design that produced a general-purpose vessel able to carry any cargo, but could also be modified for specific uses. Between 1939 and 1947, 465 of these ships were built in American shipyards.
- Archie Green went on to earn a Ph.D. in folklore and devoted his scholarly and teaching career to workers' culture and occupational traditions. He remained a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America until his death in 2009.
- date made
- 1923
- shipwright
- Green, Archie
- Archie Green's college
- University of California, Berkeley
- ID Number
- 1994.0296.01
- catalog number
- 1994.0296.01
- accession number
- 1994.0296
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center


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Kent and Diane Procarione, of Huntington, are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Ashley Hansen to Kevin Powell, son of Kerry and Karla Powell of Lehi. Ashley is also the daughter of the late Wade Hansen.
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By PATSY STODDARDEditor
The Emery High class of 2006 has been unleashed upon the world. Graduation was held on May 25 at 7 p.m. The audience was welcomed by senior class president Tyler Swenson. He compared the senior class to the box of crayons they received in kindergarten with the 64 colors. They learned how to mix and mingle colors and his classmates are colorful people as well. "The two separate junior highs with red and white and white and blue combined to become the black and gold of the Spartans." Swenson instructed classmates to be kind and courteous. He said their future is in their hands and to use it wisely.
Shala Pitchforth, studentbody president presented the teacher of the year award to Jim Keele.
The Salutatory address was given by Shontelle Weaver. Weaver instructed fellow classmates to rise to their full potential and do the best they can to stay on their feet. They have built a foundation they can rely on even though the path ahead will be unsteady and rocky at times. She used the fable of the tortoise and the hare and reminded the students that slow and steady wins the race. "Be prepared, go on to higher education, prepare for tomorrow today. If you want something it takes dedication and it requires more than wings to be an eagle. The true value of education is in its use," said Weaver.
An honor address was given by Jasha Hinkins. She encouraged fellow students to finish the race. She told the story of a little boy in a race who kept falling down but would rise again and continue the race. He looked to his father for encouragement. "You're never a loser if you get up each time you fall," said Hinkins. She told classmates to be the one who is there for someone when no one else is there. She told of the many friends the students have had along the way from elementary to high school. She encouraged graduates to let their parents know how much help and love they have given them along the way.
"Get up and win the race, let someone know you believe in them. Good luck class of 2006, you've finished one race now it's time to start a new race," said Hinkins.
Honor student Vic Rosen told how a sports injury gave him an opportunity to focus more on his academic studies than on sports. He had long planned a career in professional sports but a torn ACL playing football sidelined Rosen for the rest of the football season and the basketball season. He said good friends helped him through his injury with a lot of love and support. He learned he was good at math and liked it. He also became interested in engineering. "Trials make an impact on us. A gem cannot be polished without friction. We must adapt to trials and change," said Rosen.
Alexis Swasey gave an honor address. She asked seniors to count their blessings. "We will no longer have to worry about tardies in first hour, we are through with our scholarship applications. Our high school days are gone. We will no longer participate in sports or socialize and learn from our teachers. It's a day to say goodbye to good friends and a day to celebrate. We are so blessed to be alive at this time and to live in this community," said Swasey. She said they will be leaving all that is familiar and will be in uncharted territory. "We learn to appreciate what we have by going without. I learned to appreciate having a healthy body, when I had a sports injury," said Swasey. "We need to express our gratitude for our friends and those who have cheered us on. All the bus drivers, wonderful teachers, lunch ladies and all the people in the community who supported us. We are the future. It is not if but when trials come, we must rise again and be grateful. Celebrate with an attitude of gratitude," said Swasey.
An honor address was given by Kiyomi MacDonald. She said they have been in high school the past three years and asked the question of whether it has been a home or a prison. The only sure plan is that our plans will change and we will learn from that. MacDonald read from the book, "Oh, the places you'll go," she likened the seniors to the journey told in the book where you must be ready for anything. "There are games to be won and you'll be the winningest winnner of all. Sometimes you will be scared, sometimes you will have problems, you will get mixed up with some strange birds. But, be careful and never mix your right foot up with your left. We're off to great places today. Today is your day, your mountain is waiting so get on your way.
"Our parents believe in us and we'll go great places. I congratulate the class of 2006 for what you've done. Move onto your future and move mountains," said MacDonald.
The Valedictory address was give by Katie Reynolds. She began with a story from Alice in Wonderland. When choosing the road you will take you need to know where you are going. She recenly went to a Chinese dinner with friends and her fortune read, 'you are unaware of the effect you have on others.' As she thought about that she said we are often unaware of the effect we have on others. Everything we do affects someone. "Our teachers, friends, parents have helped us become who we are. Believe in your capacity to do good. Do a simple good deed every day. Ordinary people can work in extraordinary ways. It doesn't matter what you make your profession as long as you love what you do. You qualify to be useful to society. There is more to learn. Pursue knowledge. Be well educated and do your best. Manage yourself wisely and plan ahead. Choose to save and not spend. Mismanagement changes a bright future to defeat. A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. You must have goals to reach your full potential. We are born to make manifest the glory that is in us. Reach higher and achieve your potential. Work hard because you want it. Marie Curie said, 'there is nothing to be feared only to be understood.' This is a day of celebration, a milestone. The time spent here we will keep close to our hearts. We do not fear the future, because we the class of 2006 are the future," said Reynolds.
Emery High principal Gwen Callahan presented the seniors to the school board and Laurel Johansen, board president accepted them for graduation. Each senior was called forward and the diplomas were presented.
The senior A Capella choir also presented a musical number called, "And wherever you go."
The 163 member senior class sang the class song, "The Halls of Emery."


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Cubs closer Carlos Marmol was prepared to start a new chapter in his career.
The Cubs reportedly traded closer Carlos Marmol to the Angels for starting pitcher Dan Haren – except the deal fell apart. Marmol broke the news, telling Dominican Republic paper El Caribe that he was traded to Anaheim.
"I am very fond of the City of Chicago," he told El Caribe. "It will always be in my heart. Now I look up to the challenge with Anaheim."
However, a trade that once appeared to be a done deal was never finalized and the Cubs reportedly pulled the offer even though Marmol waived his no-trade clause, agreeing to go to Anaheim. Haren would have been a perfect addition for an organization that is starved for starting pitching.
Even Cubs pitcher Matt Garza believed Marmol was traded to the Angels, tweeting: Gonna be tough to replace a closer like Marmol, for sure! But adding another horse to the stable gives us innings we sorely need!
Marmol is entering the final year of his contract and is owed $9.8 million. Haren, 32, posted a 12-13 record and 4.33 ERA with the Angels in 2012. Haren has a $15.5 million club option for 2013 with a $3.5 million buyout.
Marmol, 30, saved 20 games for the Cubs this season with a 3.42 ERA. During his seven-year Cubs career he has recorded 115 saves.
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Posted on 08/19/2008 12:48:11 PM PDT by Publius804
Obama Flunks Rick Warren's Abortion Question
by Deal W. Hudson
Here's a truism: If you're running for President, don't answer a question by saying, "That's above my pay grade." After all, if you want to occupy the White House, there is no higher pay grade. You are the boss, and the buck stops with you.
But Barack Obama used precisely that expression when asked by Rick Warren at what point "a baby gets human rights." Obama said, "Whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity . . . is above my pay grade."
How can a man who has voted three times on the Born Again Infant Protection Act be unable to answer that question with "specificity"? Does he mean that he voted against BAIPA without having an answer to that question? But then what did he base his vote on?
Obama made the telling mistake of pitting the truths of science against the truths of theology. He seems to think there are two truths in contradiction to each other. And his implication is clear: Theology teaches life begins at conception, but science sees it differently.
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I thought Obama was much more cunning than that.
I'm beginning to think that, because of a lifetime spent in the company of far-out lefties, Obama discovered that there's such a thing as a pro-lifer only recently—and he's never really talked to one. And he's not very bright.
Obama admits he doesn't know - fine. So how does he justify ending what may be life?
Science sees it differently?
I saw a thread about how science has proved through DNA testing, that a human exists at the time of conception, as a distinct, separate, human being.
narcissistic evil?
Are they being as obtuse as Obama? He was clearly making a reference to God, but being careful not to name Him for fear of infuriating his base.
The Buck Stops at some higher pay-grade
(Just where does it stop? The editorial board of the New York Times?)
Obama has core beliefs, and he's smart enough to know that he can't be honest about them.
Everyone seems to forget that in 2004 Obama said the Pesidency is above his pay grade.
Video - Barack Obama says will NOT run for President 2008 election because he lacks experience
I would love to see McCain use this in an ad, with a simple I'm John McCain and I agree with and approve this message.
And if that baby's born again, Obama will let that baby be killed again.
How long before some pro-abort comes out and says that surviving abortion doesn't count as an actual birth, i.e., the baby wasn't really born, just removed from womb, and is still subject to the mother's "wishes".
I am seeing a lot of congruence between Obama's behavior and thinking, and the thinking of a radical, West-hating Muslim. E.g. kill the infidel children (abortion). Unrestricted immigration into the Lands of War (Dar al-Harb). etc.
Look up Princeton professor Peter Singer - he is very concerned about animal rights, but would not deem a newborn baby outside the wome a "person" until about a month or so after birth.
We're already well down the slippery slope.
wome = womb
Your comment says it all..
That should be "Born Alive...
Boxer, in the Senate record, states that the baby isn't really a baby until "maybe when they take it home".
Obama, on the Illinois Senate floor, stated that this (BAIPA) bill would be "to much of a burden on the woman".
Your hypothetical is not hypothetical.
OH, don't put it past them.
The left despises Christians a lot!
If he medical definition of death is the absence of brainwaves and a heartbeat, than the definition of life is the presence of brainwaves and a heartbeat.
You're assuming he uses logic. A reminder: Obama is a Democrat.
I have the audio of that clip.
It plays everytime I start my computer. It makes the few Obama supporters around me visibly uncomfortable when they hear it.
I like it because its his own words.
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Good work, Phil ...
You all have moved away from the central abortion-rights-activists doctrine, which has nothing to do whatsoever with "when does life begin?" That USED to be the issue, but in more recent years, the issue the pro-abortion people use as their platform is that it doesn't MATTER when life begins. A mother has a right to give birth or to NOT give birth to anything inside of her because it is HER BODY and her reproductive rights trump any other scientific or religious issue. She doesn't have to have any reason. She is supreme in the right to give birth or not — right up until delivery at ANY month gestation.
THAT is the abortion movement's message. They moved on from "when life begins" long ago, since that has an obvious answer. It is the mother's rights alone that count. That's it. Nothing else.
Barry Osama whatever-his-name-is knows when life begins. And he knows, as a man who does CLAIM the name of Christ as his Savior, that abortion is murder at ANY week or month of pregnancy.
Rick Warren should have phrased the question differently and then it would have been much easier for Obama to answer.
What he should have asked was:
"At what point does a baby stop being a fetus and become a punishment?"
Obama would be able to figure that out easily.
What's all this nonsense of asking the Obamessiah questions in the first place? He's a leftist and he's black. Therefore he should be the president. If you don't think so, just ask Katie Couric or Chris Mathews.
Here's how I see it.
The fact that you have to end it proves that it's a life. Or the other way around: if it weren't a life, you wouldn't have to terminate it.
I think I learned this in ninth grade. For Bambi to say it's above his pay grade is insane. It's basic science.
Oh, I can answer that!
It's when the woman/girl starts to "show" and is embarrassed by it
or can't fit into her prom dress.
Ever cornered a "pro-choicer" with logic
and had them simply hold up their hand, lower their head,
and say "a woman has the right to choose"?
It's not a defensible position.
Great! He escaped from the hussein asylum.
I had an interesting conversation with an intelligent young lady who refuses to red meat because she loves animals and doesn't feel that they should be harmed. She is also pro-choice. I asked her "why is it that alot of you pro-choice people care so much about the suffering of animals, but not of humans?" She also doesn't believe in the death penalty. I asked her why the life of a guilty criminal is more important than the life of an innocent baby. She had not answer, just that it is in between the mother and God.
I agree. But "a woman has a right to choose" is all they have. And I don't ever argue with anyone about abortion. "It's a child, not a choice" is all I HAVE.
By the way — I have a sister who murdered her child at about 24 weeks of pregnancy at 20 years old. We grew up as pastor's kids — she had turned her back on her faith and family entirely at that point. She had NEVER had any sign whatsoever of mental illness — until the abortion. Within a few months, she began to literally lose her mind, out of deep-seated guilt that sent her into the darkness of clinical & chemical manic/depression, of which she suffers with to this day, some 15+ years later. She told me once in a moment of clarity that there is a part of her that is glad for the horror of mental illness since the abortion, since it makes her feel at some level that she is serving a life sentence for the life she took, knowing it was murder. That tore me up that she felt that way, since I know she has asked for and receive forgiveness from God for what she did. I know that God can heal her mind and emotions if she's willing, but it seems she finds some level of "comfort" in knowing that she just couldn't go on with her life, after ending the life of another.
Abortion destroys more lives than just that innnocent child's.
I don't really think that works as an argument. You could say that a tumor has to be killed and therefore you are ending a life.
The analogy doesn't work for me. A tumor doesn't develop into a person.
You do not "terminate" or "kill" a tumor...you remove it. I know — I've had four large ones removed from my abdomen (non-cancerous).
No doctor says they are "removing a fetus" in doing an abortion. And of COURSE tumors are not independent life sources either, with brain and cardiac activity.
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That's too bad. There are some excellent arguments out there that go way beyond this, and are irrefutable - that's why I get the raised hand, lowered eyes, etc - often.
Look up the "SLED" abortion argument.
And if you'll suffer a mild rebuke:
1 Peter 3:15 - "...always be ready to give an answer..."
And, in reading the rest of your post -
I really am sorry that women have to suffer so, due to a choice that society says is consequenceless.
In my experience, I have seen just two outcomes, neither neutral. One, as you have described, lifelong horror and mental anguish.
The other is worse, however, as it perpetuates the evil, and I would be these women are just as tortured.
The other case is where the woman becomes a lifelong abortion advocate in order to justify her choice. I even know of a case where a woman changed her career path in order to become an abortionist in order to "help" others make the same decision.
I think I know how to defend the sanctity of life pretty well, thank you.
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In the years after Federation in 1901 (when Australia's six states came together as a single nation), one of the greatest challenges facing the former British colony was the issue of defence. More than thirty years after the last British soldiers had departed, in 1870, Australia still sought a coherent and affordable military strategy. On the advice of Lord Kitchener, it was suggested that this should include a highly mobile force of around 40,000 troops, to be deployed whenever and wherever needed. Key to its success would be the method of transport used to negotiate the country – one of the leading contenders was the bicycle.
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The feat was considered remarkable enough to make the 'Military Intelligence' column of The Times in London, yet it was far from the end of the story. Over the next few years Dunlop's lucrative tyre contracts failed to materialise and there also remained the thorny issue of how the bike might fare against rapidly advancing motorised transport. So three years later, in 1912, they staged the event again. This time Dunlop decided to spice things up a bit, this time pitching the cyclists against a team of cars and a team of motorcycles. At 10pm on a warm April night, the first riders rolled out on what was sure to prove a daunting journey.
The 100th anniversary of the 1912 relay marked the perfect opportunity for the Rapha Continental to tackle the route of the military dispatch rides. To plan our journey, we sought the advice of Go!Alliance, a cycling body working to bring the route of the 'satchel ride' back to life. By doing so, they hope to introduce a new generation to Australia's rich cycling heritage and to reinvigorate tourism in some of those original participating towns, since bypassed by major highways.
Not having 126 riders at our disposal, we set ourselves the more realistic time of five days to explore the route, knowing that changes to the landscape, both natural and man-made, would mean we couldn't retrace the tyre tracks of the 1912 riders entirely. We would, however, experience the changing landscape, the road less travelled and the camaraderie. And that, in essence, is what the Rapha Continental is all about.
Towards the end of last year, we prepared for a ride that would take us over terrain more diverse than any of us had experienced on a single adventure before. With our own beautifully crafted leather satchel, care of Tailfeather in Melbourne, we set forth from sleepy Adelaide at 5am, rolling out through the hills that, every January, host the Tour Down Under.
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It was as we neared Sydney that the heavens opened for the first time but we pressed on, knowing the 1912 riders would have done the same. Indeed, our predecessors had ridden through the night, guided only by the dim light of a lantern. And while we were not able to trace the original route exactly, we endeavoured to follow their journey closely and respectfully. Numerous roads had, of course, changed over the last 100 years; dirt tracks had become four-lane highways, while natural landmarks, such as billabongs, have dried up altogether. Many of the 63 sectional markers that once lined the route have long since disappeared, while some of the towns have become victims not just of the highways but of dying industries.
With remnants of abandoned mining towns and disused tobacco sheds punctuating our days, we tried to honour the spirit and the difficulty of those original journeys by heading off-track. We diverted on to gravel roads of varying colours – red, white, black. We explored, too, the salt flats of the Coorong. In 1909, this part of the country was sufficiently remote that no reliable maps existed. The maps Dunlop provided for the riders so impressed Australia's military bigwigs that they requested copies for themselves. Equally remarkable was the fact that the riders charged with covering the sand flats in 1912 managed to pedal, run and carry their bikes more than 56 miles at an average of 12.2mph.
From the Coorong we rode on, to climb the granite-strewn horn of Victoria's Mount Buffalo and by the time the satchel was delivered to Sydney we had retraced a unique route, crossing three states to arrive exhausted but elated. What remained was the bond that formed between the Continental riders, a unique camaraderie.
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Kevin Bieksa, appearance vs. reality
Cam Charron
November 05 2011 12:15PM
There are numbers for everything in sports.
Luck? Sign me up.
I got into a bit of a discussion on Twitter with another competitor in the Province's #ReplaceTheKB competition last night about the play of Kevin Bieksa. Bieksa, I'm sure you're all aware, is a team-low minus-9, has yet to score a goal, and has been on the ice for 21 goals against so far through just 14 games.
May I suggest to you that Bieksa is going through an unlucky streak. This is something that we can quantify with something called PDO. What is PDO? Follow me after the jump.
I often get asked what "PDO" stands for, but the truth is that it is simply the Internet-handle of the guy who invented it in the comments section of a long-time hockey stats blog run by Vic Ferrari. PDO, simply, is the shooting percentage of a player's team when he is on the ice at even strength plus his save percentage.
Over the course of many games, this number will approach 100%. Anything above 100 we call "unsustainably high" and anything below it we call "unsustainably low". The idea is that the best players are the ones with the highest shot differentials, and, over the span of a season, the goal totals sync up with the shots taken.
Kevin Bieksa, among defensemen with at least ten games played, has the sixth lowest PDO among NHL defensemen who have played at least 10 games. Last season, Canucks goalies saved 94.2% of the shots against when Bieksa was on the ice. In the playoffs, it was 93.3%. This season tells a different story, as that number has dipped to 87.5%, and Bieksa's overall PDO has dropped to a gaudy 93.1%. He can't take all the blame for the things that have happened to him and Keith Ballard this season. Some bounces have done the trick as well.
The way that I can best describe this effect is that the skill required to score a goal is overstated. The true talent in hockey is creating shots at one end, and preventing shots at the other. It is the core tenet of advanced hockey statistical analysis, and the geeks like to talk about "shot differential" when discussing players rather than pure goal differential.
This effect is easily seen on a player such as, say, Maxim Lapierre. Lapierre had a rough go last season, with him and his teammates only putting 5.8% of their shots in the net last season. His PDO was the lowest on the Canucks at 97.9%. This season, his PDO has started off in the opposite direction, with his on-ice shooting percentage at 11.1%. His PDO has gone on an up-swing as a result, at 104.3% Thus far, there are very positive reviews about Lapierre's play, and while it has been good for a fourth line player, what you see out of Lapierre is the reverse of what's happened with Bieksa.
PDO understands our emotions. If it seems like a guy is skating to the bench head bowed in solemnity, we recognize that. But PDO is slightly more sophisicated, understanding that there is a certain fluke about being on the ice for a goal against. A player has about a 3% chance of getting scored on every shift he takes.
When we think that a player isn't playing up to par, if you check his PDO, you can expect to see it a little lower than 100. The reverse effect happens as well. If a player looks to be at the top of his game, it's probably because he's riding the percentages, and that will expect to come down. It's a measure of luck, but in the more personal sense, it's a measure of our personal emotion.
-Ville Leino was never really good, but since the playoffs of 2010 until this season he's been lucky. This is what the stat community calls "riding the percentages".
It is an easy statistic to find, and the most important of all the advanced statistics, one that is simple enough to understand and gives us so much more perspective when crafting opinion about hockey players. Go to BehindTheNet.ca, and under the "Statistics" tab go to "Player Breakdown".
From there, there is an almost un-navigable sea of numbers and ratios, but if you click on 'On-Ice Shooting' on the options menu on the right side of the screen, along with your criteria for which players you want to show up (team, position, minimum games played, year) you are left with his on-ice shooting percentage and on-ice save percentage, added up on the right-most column to form PDO.
The Canucks numbers from this season can be found here.
If you scroll through that, you can note some of the highest PDOs in the NHL last season. Nathan Horton had the highest among playeg last season at 103.8%, while David Booth was the lowest at 95.8% (and that shows you how the Canucks "bought low" when it comes to Booth). Those numbers are closer to 100 than the numbers we've seen at the start of this season but players have been known to have bad luck over a long period of games (or good luck: see Leino, Ville, who had a 109.5% PDO in the 2010 playoffs, a 102.3% PDO last season with Philadelphia, and has started his Sabres career with a much lower 98%, leaving people wondering whether his contract really was that shrewd of a signing).
So rather than make judgments of hockey players based on a couple of games where a player appears to have been sub-par, just keep in mind the perspective and the larger context. Over a small number of games, goal totals don't quite match quite up to the number of shots for and against, but in the long scheme of things, it generally does.
Kevin Bieksa will turn it around. Well, he won't, necessarily, but his percentages are unsustainably low, so he could play the exact same way towards the end of the season, and his +/- number will slowly begin to improve.
it seems like a deceiving stat. Take for example Max Lappierre last year. You say his line scored on 5.8% of their shots and yet his PDO was 97%. Shouldn't it have been in the 20-30% range? Sorry this stat is too complicated I think +/- is a more telling stat because it tells how many times a player was on the ice when his team score and when they were scored on. Also how do you define a scoring chance? A player can shoot the puck from center ice and score as has happened on occasion. To me, any shot has a chance of going in and thus should be considered a scoring chance.
Calling anything above 100 unsustainably high and anything below unsustainably low is a major exaggeration. Depending on your team's goalie, something like 101 can be very sustainable for a ranger or canuck or bruin. Additionally skill of line mates factors in. It is luck driven, but there is more to the stat then just luck
November 05 2011, 02:15PM
@Tina A scoring chance is a shot taken within "home-plate." While any shot has a "chance" at going in, research has shown that these are what we should (and do) consider "higher percentage opportunities."
As for PDO's complexity: it is the simplest advanced stat around. Add one number to another, and produce a sum. Really quite simple.
+/- is flawed because it is so luck based, you can get a - for jumping off the bench for a line change at the wrong time, or because your goalie duffed an easy save attempt. It's certainly of less value when analysing the quality of an individual skaters contributions than that player's underlying numbers and PDO...
The other reason that +/- is flawed is that it doesn't take into consideration the context of play. Players that take more face-offs in the defensive zone against the other team's Crosbys and Ovechkins are more likely to see scoring chances against. The Sedins and Ehrhoff had high +/- last year in part because AV was using them as much as possible in the offensive zone, and against weaker competition, whenever possible (fourth line icing? here come the Sedins...).
And, there are many other events in a game besides goals, so that's why stats geeks turned to using Corsi, scoring chances and the like to evaluate players.


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Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse's announcement Monday that he would consider proposals to host a casino in the city is drawing mixed reaction, not only from local residents, but from leaders of two communities also vying for Western Massachusetts' sole casino license. Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno, whose city already has three competing proposals for a casino, says he welcomes another that might come to Mountain Park on Holyoke's Mount Tom. Sarno says this latest potential entry to the casino sweepstakes only ups the ante to garner the best deal from developers.
"When Ameristar originally came in (to) the city of Springfield, their proposal I believe was for $625 million. Their proposal recently came in for $910 million. So competition overall is good, we firmly believe that Springfield offers the best venue for this $1 billion economic development project."
Palmer town councilor Paul Burns says Morse's announcement actually endorses his town's location as the best to host a casino. He says Morse has acknowledged that placing a casino in an urban setting like Holyoke, and by extension Springfield, could cannibalize existing businesses in the immediate area and push increased traffic into neighboring communities not equipped to handle it. Burns says Palmer's rural setting makes those less of an issue.
"Every site has its positives and negatives. But I think that when you're talking about adding casinos to an urban area, you increase the congestion that's already there. And yes the Mt. Tom site is slightly off the urban center, but it's really in an urban environment and it takes away from those existing businesses. Where the Palmer site is going to enhance business throughout that corridor of Hampden County and Worcester County. I think we have a much bigger impact area in terms of the benefits."
And, Burns says, there's more land available in Palmer to develop a destination resort, with existing infrastructure and access to the Mass Pike, something he adds the other sites don't have.