Charlie Shub wrote:
> ah, there's the rub.  People are wrong.  USCHO is NOT the primary
> source of information, Hockey-l is.  USCHO has made a decision to NOT
> include the penalties.  I know because i've sent them box scores with
> misspellings and penalties included.  The misspellings have stayed and
> the penalties have gone.
 
Not this year.  We have made improvements so that our boxes automatically
generate statistics for every player and team.  Unless there is an error
in our rosters, there can be no misspellings.  We have also used nothing
but official boxes this year.
 
Given the sheer volume of additional time that would be necessary to
include penalties, it won't be happening any time in the immediate
future.  We're stretched incredibly thin as it is.
 
But I would think that being able to get statistics on every single D-I
player and team and have (no penalty) boxes for all the games to go along
with professionally written game reports for an increasing percentage of
games amounts to great coverage of the sport.
 
While I can appreciate the interest in penalties, to denigrate USCHO's
overall coverage for this one failing we simply can't avoid right now
seems akin to saying, "Doesn't that facial mole make Cindy Crawford look
ugly?"  :-)
 
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