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  1. Walsh Hall
    How many college or NHL teams have had a 95% winning percentage? Must be at least 1 per year by that logic. The bookmakers seem to disagree. I don’t recall many 20-1 dogs being offered. It’s unusual to see teams more than -250.
  2. Walsh Hall
    Are you a fact checker for NBC? This reminds me of one of their "fact checks" when Trump said that Biden has been in politics "forever." That was declared to be a lie. He was not in politics forever, but begin his politic career in 1970...
  3. Walsh Hall
    I'm surprised that Gino was only 49 at the end of his tenure. I don't see Berry leaving anytime soon, and unless the program takes a major step backwards I assume the hire would be internal.
  4. Walsh Hall
    The common denominator is that even the top team going into the NCAA tournament has around a 1 in 10 chance of winning the title in the current state of the game. Blaming that on the coach is frankly idiotic.
  5. Walsh Hall
    It's my belief that there is much more parity today than in the 80's-90's. The last 2 or 3 games of a 4 game title run and pretty close to being coin flips even for the 1 seeds.
  6. Walsh Hall
    I don’t think anyone is bitching about it, just stating the statistical fact that in a 4 game one and done system, with all competent teams, the odds of the “best” team winning is quite small. I’m fine with the current system, but don’t lose all sense of reason when the season ends without a championship in a coin-flip game.
  7. Walsh Hall
    For folks more involved than I currently am, what are considered to be the largest issues with NDHS hockey?
  8. Walsh Hall
    Having a stacked team guarantees it, like 1997 Michigan, 2010 UND, etc… I’d love to know who would have won championships over the last 40 years if there were 5 game series instead of one and done. My guess is we’d have picked up 2-4 others (including the lost year) and lost 1 or 2 as well. Hockey has, statically, the largest variance in actual result versus implied result of the major sports (tennis is last). You have to be good, but luck has to be on your side to win.
  9. Walsh Hall
    I completely agree. In our youth hockey organization I had brought up reaching out to the kids/family that drop out to try to get an honest answer to why they quit. We never did it, but I thought it would be interesting to hear the actual reasons. (Cost, time, coaches, playing time, other interest, skill level, relationship with teammates...) There are definitely many talented kids in the 12-16 age range that hang up the skates for a host of reasons.
  10. Walsh Hall
    I believe the better seed is 12-0 so far.
  11. Walsh Hall
    I'd call the Dickinson/Mandan game a coin flip. The others seem pretty safe.
  12. Walsh Hall
    Count me in the group who usually has the games on while sitting at my deck. I won't be going through the process of logging into some app... to watch. I'm curious to know how many people will actually go through that hassle. The number of views is pretty small to begin with.
  13. Walsh Hall
    I fully intend and expect to watch the hoisting after the Saturday game with Western, on home ice.
  14. Walsh Hall
    I did a little checking as to scoring on the girls' side. I picked (3) years at random from 10+ years ago and the average was 7.2 goals per game. This year, the average goals per game is 4.84, about a 33% drop. The goalie stats are significantly better now, but I didn't calculate average save percentages. Just thought this was interesting given the low scoring games and relatively low point totals for the scoring leaders. For comparison, on the boys side the average is around 7.4 goals per game.
  15. Walsh Hall
    I think folks are forgetting what the 5x5 OT's used to look like. The vast majority of the time, both teams were more than happy to take the tie and get their pt. I recall walking out of the WSC after ties and it's an odd feeling. The fear of losing the pt outweighed taking chances to gain a pt. I don't have a grand solution outside just calling the game a tie after regulations, but nobody likes a tie. I don't see why having 4x4 instead of 3x3 is any less gimmicky, and there is some merit to having the game played the same way it is at the next level.
  16. Walsh Hall
    It's all about goalie play on the girl's side. If your goalie isn't stopping 93% or more of shots you are in trouble. Against the better goalies, basically all you're gonna get are greasy goals and possibly odd man rushes. They aren't gonna get beat on a wrister from the slot they can see.
  17. Walsh Hall
    Who will lead the USA victory song?
  18. Walsh Hall
    From a legal standpoint this will be an interesting case. I'm curious to see the essential elements of the charge, and I'd love to see the jury instructions if the case got to that point. With the assumption of risk/consent, or whatever doctrine is applicable to sporting events in this case, it will be pretty complicated to sort out. Some incidents have been clearly outside the scope of the sporting event, but that's a tough line to draw as far as what can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. I don't know how the "reckless" or "negligent" culpability levels are applied to sports. I believe most in-competition criminal charges are based on intentional acts clearly outside the scope of play, ala Todd Bertuzzi. A ton of incidents in sporting events could be deemed reckless or "dirty" and result in injury. I suspect the prosecutors will have to be on their game for this one.
  19. Walsh Hall
    29 runs and 24 passes. 3.3 yards per rush. It wasn’t like we were gashing them with the run either.
  20. Walsh Hall
    Completely lopsided stats, but still have a chance to steal one. Realistic should not still be in this game.
  21. Walsh Hall
    Berg was 16-5 on face offs. Impressive.
  22. Walsh Hall
    Mine as well. Was a college student at the time. From standing in line for hours with a bunch of friends, snowballs at the bus, etc. The crowd during the timeout in the 3rd was crazy. Instead of settling things down, it cranked the crowd up several notches.
  23. Walsh Hall
    https://datagolf.com/ryder-cup/strokes-gained Interesting look at shots gained/lost for the RC and each session. Homa was lights out that round, Thomas horrible…
  24. Walsh Hall
    It would be interesting to see if the "sit rule" would have any significant impact one way or the other. Getting rid of it would probably make some kids come back, but may also cause more to leave in the first place knowing if things don't work out they could come back.
  25. Walsh Hall
    I'm in shock...I'm in possession of a video tape from the later 1990's era of W3W which, in the current cancel culture, would completely cancel a lot of folks. Thanks to the resident documentarian if you are on here... Oddly enough, I dug the tape out a while back to show my son. He was quite surprised to see what old boring dad had in him back in the day...
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