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[The Napkin]

NHL rule book

NHL CBA

NHL Drug Testing

[The Napkin]

let me know if there's anything you'd like added. I'll edit the first post to add so things can be found nice and easy

[TheStoryofYourRedRightAnkle]

http://www.hockey-reference.com/ is a good statistical reference. I'm not sure what other sites people use for stats besides nhl.com or espn.com.

[PedroSpecialK]

http://www.behindthenet.ca/ is also extremely useful for more in-depth statistical analysis.

[The Four Peters]

I'm going to ask it here, but I bet it gets ignored b/c this thread is pinned and no one pays attention to pinned threads.

What are people's favorite hockey-related internet sites? Either for browsing, news, analysis, or general entertainment. I'll post a couple of mine, but I'm looking for more to put into the rotation.

Here's where I've been going:

The Hockey News (awesome site)
Stanley Cup of Chowder
Bruins Blog(obviously)
Boston Bruins Blog
Hockey's Future

What else is out there?

[TheStoryofYourRedRightAnkle]

Here. Otherwise, I've got nothing. But I'm not ignoring you!

edit: Now that I think about it, I also read the hockey threads in the "Sports Argument Stadium" forum on Something Awful. A large cross-over of posters from the HF Boards so not always the best noise-to-signal ratio, but it can at least be pretty funny.

Edited by TheStoryofYourRedRightAnkle, 16 October 2009 - 12:03 PM.

[TheStoryofYourRedRightAnkle]

By way of Erfus:

Cap Geek.Com - for player's contracts and cap hits.

Edited by TheStoryofYourRedRightAnkle, 21 October 2009 - 03:06 PM.

[The Four Peters]

You can also put NHL Numbers on the list as well.

[The Four Peters]

Figured this deserved a bump while I was playing with pinned threads. Anyone got any other suggestions?

[Dummy Hoy]

Figured this deserved a bump while I was playing with pinned threads. Anyone got any other suggestions?

Broudeur is a fraud

Justin Bourne's blog

Battle of California (read this post first)

[Zososoxfan]

Broudeur is a fraud

Justin Bourne's blog

Battle of California (read this post first)

I really liked the "special teams adjusted goals against per 30 shots number" part - it seems to identify the best goalies from last year quite accurately in my estimation.

[ToxicSmed]

I really liked the "special teams adjusted goals against per 30 shots number" part - it seems to identify the best goalies from last year quite accurately in my estimation.

Except that it's a totally bogus number. I appreciate that teams spend more time at even strength compared to on the power play, but goals scored against while down a man aren't suddenly worth four times as much. What possible reason could there be for deciding to do this?

Say that you have two goalies. Goalie A is, for whatever reason, is 5% (made up number) better than average during even strength play and 5% worse than average during the penalty kill. Even though he faces more time and more shots at even strength (and will therefore let in fewer goals per game AND per shot) this stat will measure him as worse.

There is really no scenario in which this statistic is as good as either save percentage or the already redundant goals per 30 shots that they started with, both of which represent the same already-flawed way of looking at things.

What next? We are going to mark down David Wright because he doesn't hit well in the second inning?

[AMcGhie]

ESPN's list of Summer 2011 and Summer 2012 Free agents
Good for both "hey, who's available this summer" and "hey, who's trade bait during the season if their team sucks"

[AMcGhie]

http://espn.go.com/nhl/injuries

 

Espn's very comprehensive list of current NHL injuries.