tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148461224473220694.post1696507329677544115..comments2024-03-27T06:03:35.695-04:00Comments on Brodeur is a Fraud: Back to BacksThe Contrarian Goaltenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433370306939690205noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148461224473220694.post-40604779990259644152019-08-08T04:30:46.078-04:002019-08-08T04:30:46.078-04:00We are the best writing company providing Custom ...We are the best writing company providing <a href="https://www.meldaresearch.com/buy-custom-college-papers-online/" rel="nofollow"> Custom College Papers</a> as our services are available for different <a href="https://www.meldaresearch.com/nursing-writing-service/" rel="nofollow"> Nursing Paper Writing Service</a>.jacklinemeldahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18377610671190413093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148461224473220694.post-76577780861255104572009-01-27T09:42:00.000-05:002009-01-27T09:42:00.000-05:00Doogie2K: Interesting comments on injury risk. T...Doogie2K: Interesting comments on injury risk. That would be an interesting topic of study. First of all, I'd like to know how injuries correlate to games played, so we'd need find the injury rate of backup goalies to compare to starters. I would imagine injuries are dependent on style as well (I would expect someone who plays like Hasek to get injured more often than someone with a more traditional style, for example).<BR/><BR/>One thing I would like to check (although it would be a very involved study to undertake) is whether career workload influences results, i.e. do goalies decline depending on the number of shots they have faced, or games they have played, or simply because of age effects alone? From the work you have done, perhaps the number of back-to-back games or high-workload seasons or long playoff runs would also have an impact.The Contrarian Goaltenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03433370306939690205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148461224473220694.post-11169058351522112402009-01-27T09:19:00.000-05:002009-01-27T09:19:00.000-05:00How big did your sample end up being for 70gm/seas...<I>How big did your sample end up being for 70gm/season goalies?</I><BR/><BR/>I had 138 back-to-backs for the 70+ game guys, so 276 games in total over the 3 seasons.The Contrarian Goaltenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03433370306939690205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148461224473220694.post-44978080429312313942009-01-26T17:05:00.000-05:002009-01-26T17:05:00.000-05:00Great article CG. This is one of the cases where ...Great article CG. This is one of the cases where there are just so many factors to keep track of. How big did your sample end up being for 70gm/season goalies?Scott Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05735545121522530577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148461224473220694.post-33895811791537450252009-01-26T17:01:00.000-05:002009-01-26T17:01:00.000-05:00It makes sense intuitively that goalies would most...It makes sense intuitively that goalies would mostly take both halves of B2Bs when the opponent is weaker or when they play almost every game, anyway. The problem is teasing out the team effects, since everyone's going to be tired after playing the previous night. Interesting that we again see the shot-to-save-percentage inverse relationship throughout the data; I wouldn't have expected that to hold in a fatigued goaltender, but then maybe just one B2B in and of itself isn't enough to completely blow a goaltender with modern conditioning away, in terms of overall performance.<BR/><BR/>I suspect that the larger effect of B2B play, however, would be increased injury risk, which I touched on a little bit in the latter half, and arguably should have found more to say about. Of the guys you mentioned, more than half have suffered some sort of serious (10+-game) injury at some point since the lockout. With some help from TSN, we have Kiprusoff's knee, Luongo's groin, Brodeur's biceps tendon (which strikes me as a strong candidate for being an RSI, though I'd have to double-check; I'm only a student), Giguere's groin, and DiPietro's...well, entire lower body, plus we can toss in Hasek's legendary upper legs, which seemed to have problems at every turn (hips, groin, and hamstrings at different points -- if he'd injured his quads, too, he'd have hit for the cycle). If it were ever possible, I'd be very interested in seeing some scans of a goalie's muscles from before and after a B2B, and perhaps also compare the end-of-season tissue damage between a 70-game goalie (who will inevitably play a bunch of B2Bs) and a 50-game goalie (who likely seldom would).Doogie2Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14703778878103452453noreply@blogger.com