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Ducks Gameday -- The Outshooting Ducks?
Anaheim Ducks (13th in west) at Minnesota Wild (12th in west), 4:30 pmAnaheim Calling and Hockey Wilderness -- are you a Saku or a Mikko? Here's a statistic that totally caught me off-guard. Did you know that the Anaheim Ducks have outshot each of their last eight...
Ducks Gameday -- Missing Link: The Rat
Columbus Blue Jackets (lastest) at Anaheim Ducks (not lastest), 7 pmThe Cannon and Anaheim Calling -- meet some trade deadline sellers. Can The Rat play tonight? There may be no more pressing question in Anaheim this season. The Ducks have yet to put together any win streak this season without the...
Thursday Thought Piece: Realignment Revenue Sharing
I've been mulling something in my head the last hour or so, and I figured I might as well put it into a post for math-checking and whatnot. Now you may not know it from my silly cartoons or lazy blogging, but back in my college days I was an economics major, studying things like incentives,...
Ducks Gameday -- Desert-ers!
Phoenix Coyotes (Canis latrans) at Anaheim Ducks (Anas platyrhynchos), 7 pmFive For Howling and Anaheim Calling -- Networkis blogorimus. This cartoon isn't so much based on reality as it's based on the way I wish things were: Certainly not the best effort, but that's because I spent most of my...
Ducks Lossday -- Let's talk about "Fire Carlyle"
Montreal Canadiens (Carlyleless) at Anaheim Ducks (C'mon, draft lottery!), 7 pmEyes On The Prize and Anaheim Calling -- why don't you francophile a while? UPDATE: WE DID IT!!! I realize that lately I've been awfully lazy (even by my standards) in my blogging, particularly in my loose usage of the...
Ducks Preseason -- Correction: Let's NOT try this again.
Last year, through five preseason games, the Ducks were cumulatively outshot 180-122 and outscored 14-10. This year through five games the Ducks have been outshot 191-117 and outscored 22-15. Outshot worse than last year, outscored worse than last year -- if it weren't for shitty Finnish...
Shot Differential Part 2: Data Mining the Stretch Run
(Author's note: This post took me way too long to construct, contains zero cartoons, isn't very well written, and doesn't come to any real conclusions. You may waste hours trying to decipher all the data tables and may fully hate me for it, but at least we'll all be a few hours closer to puck...
Ducks and Shot Differential -- Making Progress?
Anaheim was a very bad team in terms of shot-differential last year. Over 82 games last season they were outshot by 314 shots, the third-worst margin in the league. For reference, only seven teams got outshot by more than 200 shots last season; the Ducks were the only one of those to make the...
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