The Noon Number: 6:11
by camcharron on Oct 18, 2011 12:00 PM PDT
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Given, 6:11 isn't really a number, it's a time. A time that designates that the Vancouver Canucks have spent more than six minutes more with a man down than a man up to start the hockey season. Only a handful of teams (eight) can claim that they see more PK time less PP time than the Canucks.
And hey, that team is the New York Rangers, who, in three games, have spent 10:30 extra on the penalty kill than the powerplay. This comes as a blessing for the Canucks, who not only face an opponent who have travelled through four countries in the last nine days, but a team that has also had similar troubles staying out of the penalty box.
Some splits:
| EV SV% | PK SV% | |
| Roberto Luongo | .938 | .667 |
| Henrik Lundqvist | .934 | .885 |
You're seeing that the Canucks early season goals against troubles come from a low PK SV%, which is likely to regress towards Lundqvist's level (special teams save percentages are un-repeatable, but tend to average out to .890 over the course of many many games). Obviously the Canucks PK should improve from 76%, but risks suck. They need to concentrate on the one surefire way to not allow powerplay goals against: Penalty-box abstinence.
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Yet another place
where the KesLord’s blessings will become apparent. Forget that awesome faceoff %, and giving them a dominant guy on both sides on the PK.
His PK play….the guy just cannot help himself. He HAS to play hard. Hansen’s struggles have been on the PK a bit as well….but mainly they are running around. usually after losing a draw on Kes’s side.
I think the place where we can easily see in the numbers, I imagine, is the guys all fall back into their usual roles on the PK…with the Terror Twins as the #1 option…one that leads to offense ( I would guess that of the 3 goals and 1 assist Kes got, and the 1 and 1 Burrows got SH, the other was part of that scoring play )
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Penalty-box abstinence
If the Canucks can go a whole game without a penalty, I should donate a truckload of money to the Rypien memorial website.
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That too
It seems a few of the calls have been BS, but that should not matter. “Don’t put the ref in the position to make the call…” as coaches everywhere say.
I don’t know, it will depend on who is calling the game. There is going to be some “jacked up” going on early in this one.
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If Zandberg said this
we’d have a week of penalty-free hockey. The fates seem to particularly enjoy smacking the poor guy whenever he makes “sure” bets.
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