BoC at the Olympics

Heh, saved me the trouble of posting it all. I do want to add two things, though —

1) the IOC goaltending stats are slightly flawed, at least in regards to how we think about them in the NHL. In the IOC scoring, they assign a “goal allowed” for a goalie that loses a shootout, on one extra “shot faced”. A goalie that wins a shootout picks up an extra save. As such, the “NHL” stats for the goalies are:

Jonas Hiller: 2.28 GAA, .924 sv%
Evgeny Nabokov: 4.16 GAA, .853 sv%
Ilya Bryzgalov: 1.19 GAA, .961 sv%
Thomas Greiss: 5.03 GAA, .815 sv%

2) If you include Former BoC players, then the total points are L.A. Kings 37, Anaheim Ducks and San Jose Sharks 32 each. That was the actual count I was looking at — much more even in terms of player distribution.

Still, in your poll I’ll vote Ducks. And I’m changing your Ducks total to 21. :)

Nabby played Canada, Bryz did not. Enough said.

P.S. I voted for the Sharks. Not because I’m biased or anything, but 0 votes look lonely.

Marleau and Heatley = 12 pts combined.

The lion from The Wizard of Oz = 2pts.

Same old Joe. When the chips were down, Getzlaf and Toews shifted into 5th gear, while Joe was stuck in 2nd wondering what all the fuss was about …

Meh, the Sharks had fewer players and produced slightly more, it seems. I give them the edge as far as scoring, but they fail miserably at goalie where Hiller did not.

Plus I think at times the Perry, Getzlaf, Morrow line dominated while the Thornton, Marleau, Heatly line looked weaksauce

Depends on which games you watch. Watch the games against the Swiss and Americans (round 1) and the Perry Getzlaf lines were liabilities while HTML played well. Then again, later in the tournament Getz and Perry were on fire while HTML was not a factor (didn’t play bad, but weren’t great either).