Fun stat of the day

The Buffalo Sabres have played 12 games so far in the 2015-16 season. At the 12 G mark last year the team had a total of 12 GF, an even 1.00 GFPG.

They started the first 6 games this year with a better effort of 10 G in 6 (1.67), and turned it up to 17 over the next 6 games (2.83). That's an average of 2.25 GFPG over 12, and I like this stat a lot more than last year's 1.00.

Evidently, Dan put a bug in their ears that said "if you shoot it, it sometimes will go in the net".

 

the lightning are now the only team in the league to have not yet had a 1st period lead - 14 games and counting.

 

i think rask's save percentage on the pk went under 70% tonight

 

save percentage on the year went under 70% too.

 

these two players have combined for 94 sog and have accumulated 0 goals, 7 assists. not to bad except they make a combined $14,125,000.00 per year. :!

Spoiler

jacub varocek and dustin brown

 

Eric Fehr, who signed as a free agent in the summer, scored his second shorthanded goal in his second game after missing the start of the season recovering from elbow surgery, becoming the first player in NHL history to score shorthanded in each of his first two games with a new team.

 

Bruins lost to Braden Holtby 3 times last year and scored 0 goals in the process.

 

now that ^^^ is about as fun a stat as i could imagine. had another team been involved, i would imagine it would have been less fun.

 

Some had the Ducks winning the Cup this year. I don't know, it's early. But it seems the Penz made out like bandits in the Bonin trade. Add Fehr into the mix (always liked him as a player) and the the Penz have a good bottom line rotation that Johnson will match up with other teams #1 lines......Penz have won 8 of last 9 and are ranked 17th in the Power Rankings, haha.....Course I don't expect that clip to continue.

 

Today is Friday, November 6, 2015

Today in
Sports History

1861 - The inventor of basketball, James Naismith, was born.

1869 - The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, NJ.

1958 - The American League announced that Kansas City would play a record 52 night games in 1959.

1966 - Tim Brown (Philadelphia Eagles) ran back two kick-offs for touchdowns in the same game against the Dallas Cowboys.

1969 - A tie for the Cy Young Award occurred for the first time. Detroit's Denny McLain and Baltimore's Mike Cuellar both won the award for best pitcher in the American League.

1974 - Mike Marshall became the first relief pitcher to win the Cy Young Award.

1982 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the National Football League (NFL) could not dictate the home town of a team. The case resulted from the Oakland Raiders wanting to move to Los Angeles.

1989 - NFL Charities donated $1 million through the United Way to benefit the victims of the Bay Area earthquake.

1995 - ESPN announced a five-year contract extension with Major League Baseball. The contract represented the first time that baseball's post season would be on cable.

1995 - Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced plans to move his team to Baltimore.

1995 - It was announced that a contract had been signed, on October 27, that finalized the Cleveland Browns' move to Baltimore.

1995 - Mark Messier scored his 500th NHL goal.

1996 - Michael Jordan scored 50 points for the 29th time in his career.

2002 - Emmitt Smith (Dallas Cowboys) dropped the puck at a game between the Dallas Stars and the Vancouver Canucks.

 

06NOV2015: Losing 4-2, the Chicago Blackhawks dropped their 5th consecutive road game.

 

In losing 4 of their last 5 the Hawks have given up 20 goals. Thaza Fak Jak!

 

Dylan Larkin leads the Red Wings with 45 SOG. He's fourth among NHL rookies, behind BUF Eichel (61), WPG Ehlers (61) and CHI Panarin (47).

 

crosby # 146 in scoring. *HELP*

 

and w/ the #1 pick in the ditch fantasy league, Truck Nutz takes Syndy Crosby.

 

Shoulda gone with that Dirty Ruskie.

 

On November 27 in ...

1870 - New York Times dubs baseball "The National Game".
1924 - 57,000 watch a high school football game in Las Angeles, California, USA.
1926 - 110,000 watch Army and Navy play a 21-all tie football game.
1947 - Joe DiMaggio wins his third Most Valuable Player, beating Ted Williams by one vote.
1960 - Gordie Howe becomes first NHL player to score 1,000 points.
1960 - Trailing 38-7 late in third quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Denver Broncos at 38-38.
1961 - Gordie Howe becomes first to play in 1,000 NHL games.
1966 - In highest-scoring NFL game, Washington Redskins defeat New York Giants 72-41.
1972 - New York Yankees trade Ellis, Torres and Spikes to Cleveland Indians for Nettles and Moses.
1975 - Fred Lynn became first rookie to win the Most Valuable Player.
1982 - Fifth time New York Rangers shut-out New York Islanders 3-0.
2005 - In Canada, for the second time in three years, the Edmonton Eskimos defeat the Montreal Alouettes 38-35 in an overtime thriller to win the 93rd Grey Cup at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver.

 

11-30-2007 - Death of Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, of pulmonary fibrosis at age 69 (born 1938).

 

wings have now blown a 3rd period [del]lead[/del] goat in 5 straight games