HabsCast Hockey Blog

I know there is a rule on how wide goalie pads can be, but what about the length?
I ask this because the last few games I’ve notice that Lundqvist’s pads have flaps that come up to cover his thighs. At one point in the game last night his legs were stretched from post to […]

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( 1 ) Bryan McCabe, Toronto $7,150,000
( 2 ) Jose Theodore, Colorado $6,000,000
( 3 ) Dustin Penner, Edmonton $4,250,000
( 4 ) Pavel Kubina, Toronto $5,000,000
( 5 ) Sergei Samsonov, Chicago $3,525,000
( 6 ) Todd Bertuzzi, Anaheim $4,000,000
( 7 ) Ed Jovanovski, Phoenix $7,000,000
( 8 ) Robert Holik, Atlanta $4,250,000
( 9 ) Scott Hartnell, Philadelphia $5,200,000
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Lou Lamoriello was in Montreal recently for Larry Robinson’s jersey retirement and a broadcaster had asked him what he would change if he was commissioner for a day.
The Changes:
( 1 ) Only one referee on the ice the entire game
( 2 ) Full two-minute penalties regardless of how many goals are scored
( 3 ) The […]

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Why doesn’t Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (”MLSE”) buy and operate an NHL team in Hamilton?
It occurs to me. With the market being under served and with the Canadian dollar worth more than our American counterparts ($1 CDN = $1.02 USD as of this post), MLSE should be able to increase their profits if they […]

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I recently did a study of top NHL scorers by year attempting to adjust for era to put each players Goals and Assists on an equal playing field. My methodology was as follows:
This study only involved NHL teams and players.
I studied goals per game (goals/game) and assists per game (assists/game) by season. I could instead […]

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It seems that the habs organization as a whole, beginning this past offseason, has really put an emphasis on acquiring puck moving defensemen. At the NHL level the team added Brisebois and Hamrlik, both move the puck efficiently. Through last years draft the team acquired McDonaugh, Subban, and Weber, and in 2006 the team drafted […]

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Cliff’s Notes: A team’s performance in the shootout has almost no correlation with that team’s performance in regulation.
All statistics in this post are from previous seasons. There isn’t a large enough sample size to look at 2007-08.
Some teams have performed better in the shootout than others. For example, Tampa was 10-2 last year, while Carolina […]

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So how much of the Oilers current situation is Lowes fault?
He didn’t sign Ryan Smyth, in return he received Robert Nilsson (going back and forth between the NHL and AHL) Ryan O’Marra (Currently in the ECHL) and a first round draft pick in last years draft. I wouldn’t say […]

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If you have ten minutes, listen to the below linked interview
The Commissioner discusses the Predator’s situation, the league’s economics, additional teams in Canada, scoring, fighting, as well as Eugene Melnyk’s recent claim, reported in the Globe and Mail, that 40% of the NHL’s total revenue is earned in Canada.
Audio from the Globe and Mail:

Digg […]

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Do you miss bench-clearing brawls?
I do.
Sure, it isn’t technically “part of the game”, but why not allow these to happen.
Instead of having beastly players (Donald Brashear / George LaRaque) take cheap-shots at each other’s star players all season long. Just get the hatred out in one large shot.
When’s the last time one happened in the […]

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