Jeff Price (no relation)

Don't forget the 35 goals.

A lot of people also don't have the time to watch every game in its entirety. I was not home last night during the game, and only watched about 2 minutes around every goal, so I really have no idea how they played, other than those highlights. You get a feel for how players are playing by watching the game, but we've mostly got full time jobs and families and other stuff going on, so sometimes you have to look at the stat sheet to have any idea what happened. And then your information will only be superficial. This is true even for the professionals. It's highly unlikely they can watch all 1230 games in a regular season. At some point you have to rely on stats.

Is there's no rule that says your center has to take the faceoffs, is there? He doesn't seem to be getting better. What about just letting Gallagher take them?

Thursday night against Arizona, Weber was amazing. And yet the advanced stats junkies panned him. The basic reason is that great defensive play results in bad advanced stats numbers. And yet no team has ever succeeded without some great, defense-first minded players. Weber has an advantage of being one of those types of players and still putting up lots of goals and assists.

Possession stats are interesting, but often meaningless. They can help fill in some gaps, but they are only supplemental. Traditional hockey stats mean far more than Corsi and Fenwick. It is a long-standing, effective strategy when any team has a highly effective goaltender to collapse around their own net to prevent quality shots, but allow weaker shots, then pounce on the every mistake the opposition makes. This will result in terrible possession stats. It also has won several cups, including one in 1993.

Desharnais is the best third line centre in the game. Find another that consistently puts up 0.6 points per game. If your third line centre averages 40th in scoring among centers, he's better than two thirds of the second line centers and all of the third liners.(1st line 1-30, 2nd line 31-60, 3rd line 61-90.) Paid like a third line centre @3.5 mil. Points like a second line centre. Anybody who complains about him is delusional. Find me another 45-60 point guy for your third line for less money. He's a second line talent making third line money.

I called him a third liner, a goal scorer's brain in a checking forward's body. 29 points with 10-14 goals is a legit offensive third line player. (You can argue he spent some of that on lines he shouldn't have been on, but then again Desharnais was feeding him. And he's now the third line.) And again, I'm not comparing him to Byron. They don't fill the same role. Byron's not putting up 29 points, though. That's not why he's there.

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Dale Weise was tested as the fastest skater on the Canucks team, and they certainly weren't a slow team. I hadn't seen any comparisons of him in Montreal, but Weise could outskate the entire Canucks before we got him, and he certainly didn't slow down in Montreal. The reason Weise and Byron aren't really comparable, is Weise is not a defensive forward. He's got a goal-scorer's brain in a checker's body. He's a very good "cherry picker," and can put the puck in the net with surprising frequency no matter what line you put him on. (I'd love to have him on the wing of our third line with David Desharnais.) If you're using him to kill penalties, you're misusing him. He's a 5-on-5 and occasional powerplay guy (when your other wingers are out of gas).

I don't see Paul Byron as possessing quite the same skillset. He lacks Weise's blinding speed (he was faster than everyone else on our team), thick skull, size and physicality. Byron's a tiny little guy with better than average speed and a pretty good defensive sense (better than Weise's by far). Not saying I don't love Byron, but I don't see him as having taken Weise's spot.

You're preaching to the choir. I like Weber, and I actually suspect Weber is a better fit for this team right now. (Ask me again in 5 years, though.) However, it's also not fair. Subban cannot carry Nashville. He is not responsible for Nashville's losses. He has contributed to Nashville's wins. We're comparing two amazingly talented, top tier defensemen. There's no clear answer to the question of which one is better right now. The nitty-gritty details are about all we've got. And it's going to be done throughout the season, probably for the next few years. I'm not saying I like this trade. I would undo it in a heartbeat. But it's not for what it does to the team today.

Chelios. (Wishful thinking, sure.)

Weise serving his suspension?

i'd have loved to get Weise back as a UFA. Damn Philadelphia. Maybe in four years.

I can't hate Marchand, not anymore. I just hate Montreal playing against him. Fortunately we always beat Boston...I think he hates playing Montreal worse.

2 assists, actually.

Not to clutter up a Weber appreciation thread, but Subban's having a good night in Nashville.

Technically, 4-0 is better than 4-0-1. When you're comparing records of teams that haven't played the same number of games, you should really go by point percentage. The Habs have taken 90% of their possible 10 points... The Canucks have taken 100% of their possible 8 points. But, maybe they'll lose tonight.

And just to finish off the game with a chuckle -- last time they showed the other scores, the Laughs were up 4-2 on Chicago. And now that game is going to overtime.

6 on 3.

Bob Cole: "Oh! Boston is gonna score, maybe!" Really? That's announcing?

Nooooooo!

they don't show the commercials on gamecenter.

Get some screech into him and he won't be any better, but at least he'd be entertaining.

Woah. Emelin actually got physical after a whistle??? I thought he didn't do that stuff anymore since they had to rebuild his face with surgery?