James Tanner: Plus/Minus: James Reimer, Team Canada, Bad T.V and the Death of Scouting According to my gramma, this is the best weekly NHL column in existence.

- smellmyfinger

Post Bad songs not absolutely fire jams

I don't think you mentioned the Oilers once?

Post Bad songs not absolutely fire jams
- DDM-Coga

Getting pumped waiting for my team to get smoked this afternoon. Barbie girl gets the heart pumping pregame.

I don't think you mentioned the Oilers once?
- LeftCoaster

He's waiting for the told you so when the Oil take on the Ducks in the Western Final.

James Reimer is one of my favorite players and, I think, the most underrated goalie in the NHL.

Yes, me too, he's def in my top 20 most underrated goalies in the league....

TO Sucks badly, and Reimer is not part of the solution. Underrated? whatever, he's just not good.

- smellmyfinger

Getting pumped waiting for my team to get smoked this afternoon. Barbie girl gets the heart pumping pregame.
- smellmyfinger

I'm ready too

Yes, me too, he's def in my top 20 most underrated goalies in the league....

TO Sucks badly, and Reimer is not part of the solution. Underrated? whatever, he's just not good.
- jackzack87

Hey whatever you say.

James,

I think Corsi should get a little more air time than it does, but I don't think a show like HNIC would be the proper platform as it is for a very wide audience, most of whom would just tune it out.

But, a weekly show on TSN or Sportsnet that talked about advanced stats and how they are changing the game, used in influencing decisions on trades/lineups, and scouting in general would be a really great introduction to the masses.

I know I would watch it.

Hey whatever you say.
- James_Tanner

No props for the Barbie Girl hot jam?

The closest the Leafs came to this rebuild was in the seventies - Salming, Turnbull, Sittler, McDonald, Palmateer, .....

I'm ready too

- DDM-Coga

Dominique Smith-Pelley on the top line got me like:

Hey whatever you say.
- James_Tanner

get him Jimmy,

James,

I think Corsi should get a little more air time than it does, but I don't think a show like HNIC would be the proper platform as it is for a very wide audience, most of whom would just tune it out.

But, a weekly show on TSN or Sportsnet that talked about advanced stats and how they are changing the game, used in influencing decisions on trades/lineups, and scouting in general would be a really great introduction to the masses.

I know I would watch it.
- DuranDuran

I agree in part, but they could at least stop using plus/minus and reputation as the basis for their analysis. Like, I'm pretty sure that no one on any of the major hockey broadcasts realizes that T.J Brodie is better than Shea Weber and has been for some time.

They don't need to go overboard with it, but they definitely need to at least move away from shots and into shots attempts.

James Tanner: Plus/Minus: James Reimer, Team Canada, Bad T.V and the Death of Scouting
According to my gramma, this is the best weekly NHL column in existence.
- James_Tanner

"The more I read about and learn about statistical analysis, the more irrelevant it is to listen to some ex-jock talk about character, leadership and plus/minus."



Just because you can't quantify character and leadership in some statistic to back your completely "subjective" view, doesn't mean they don't exist or have an impact. That "ex-jock" knows more about the game, than you could ever learn/understand about it, simply from sitting on the sidelines reading spreadsheets.

No props for the Barbie Girl hot jam?
- smellmyfinger

Ah, it's actually a good song. I think she's hot. I like Sven's cool hair cut.

I don't think you mentioned the Oilers once?
- LeftCoaster

No I did in fact talk about McDavid.

Ah, it's actually a good song. I think she's hot. I like Sven's cool hair cut.
- James_Tanner

Songs like 20 years old. She probably looks like Bea Arthur at this point.

"The more I read about and learn about statistical analysis, the more irrelevant it is to listen to some ex-jock talk about character, leadership and plus/minus."



Just because you can't quantify character and leadership in some statistic to back your completely "subjective" view, doesn't mean they don't exist or have an impact. That "ex-jock" knows more about the game, than you could ever learn/understand about it, simply from sitting on the sidelines reading spreadsheets.
- leonkennedy

Ok sure. If you say so.

Songs like 20 years old. She probably looks like Bea Arthur at this point.
- smellmyfinger

Currently or circa her Golden Girls peak?

I have forgiven james for everything because he actually knows how great brodie is.

Currently or circa her Golden Girls peak?
- MidnightMarauder

Was there ever a hotter show on TV?

I have forgiven james for everything because he actually knows how great brodie is.
- Bigern4MVP

And I forgive you, by proxy, for Nickleback.