Brian Cavanaugh writes:
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>1. The Maine situation - (both the Ingraham and now the latest)
>   Does Maine have an Athletic Administrator that oversees the
>   eligibilty of its players. From where I sit - a school of
>   Maine's national prominance in hockey should have someone
>   within the Athletic Department that knows every detail of
>   every transcript of every recruit that the hockey program
>   is interested in.  This person would be the "watchdog"
>   for the coaches and could prevent these problems.  Am
>   I crazy or what ???
 
Isn't that what the school's compliance officer is for? It depends on the
coaches telling the compliance officer these things. Apparently Coach Walsh
didn't tell the AD or the compliance officer about the potential problems.
 
>2. Regarding Stats....  Hockey statistics are wacky.
>   How is power play attempts and penalty kill attempts
>   defined ??  Is 10 seconds on a power play - an attempt ?
 
Yes. Technically, if a power play only runs for 1 second, it counts as an
attempt. Personally, I think that is why actual power play time should be what
is used to calculate how good a team's power play is. Instead of looking at
goals/attempts you should look at PPMinutes/Goal. Unfortunately, no one has
done this enough to be able to tell what is good and what means your power
play stinks. What I mean is: is 9 min/goal a good average for a power play? Is
it mediocre? Does it mean your power play needs work? I do actually keep the
stats for a Jr. A team up here, so I should calculate our PPMin/PPG and see
what it is. Of course, without a basis of comparison, it is hard to tell.
 
>   What about plus / minus ?  The NHL only counts even stength
>   situations - are they gospel in this calculation ??  IMHO
 
Small correction. Short-handed goals count too. Only power-play goals don't
count.
 
>   the NHL is not THE WAY to follow in all stats calculations.
>   Goalie wins is another gray area.  How about winning goal
>   or should we be looking at go-ahead goals and tying goals.
 
I think GTG are tracked. I'm not sure about go-ahead goals. The wierdest goal
stat I saw was "Proximizing goals". The idea was it was a goal that put a team
within one goal of the lead. That's almost as useless as first goals.
 
>   The NCAA or each conference should publish how they want
>   stats calculated - I hav'nt seen any "official" guidelines
>   from any regional or national source.
 
True. But there must be something out there. Why is it that the NC$$ records
saves as opposed to shots on goal? There must be something that says that you
will record saves.
 
>3. I'm interested in a very thorough report of tonite's
>   WED  Dec. 8 contest - BABSON at HOLY CROSS.  Whoever
 
Sorry, can't help you. I could do the Ottawa Jr. Senators vs Cumberland Grads,
if that means anything to you. :-)
 
See you later,
John
 
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