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I think TSN just lured Cuthbert away, no? He puts the excitement into it like Cole does.  One thing about Bowen is I feel like his TV play by play was as if he was calling it on radio.  Just waay more detail than we need when we are watching the game.  Also, Paul Romanuk coming back is...

Not a huge Bowen fan but if this means more Hughson then I'm happy to join in on some sort of protest to get Joe back. So are we making signs and marching on Rogers HQ, or....? It's Bob Cole #1 for me and Chris Cuthbert is #2.

Agree on this. Adding a David Price puts the rest of the rotation in their respective rightful places from #2-5.  Otherwise, what's the point in adding a guy to add more mush to the mushy middle of it? And on Milone... gives up a lot of home runs.. the Rogers Dome is sad land for any pitcher...

Would think that Cespedes should do pretty well now that he will be hitting drives at the green monster.

But one of the biggest problems with the top six was simply about the amount of ice time they played vs. tough opponents.  Not being the absolute strongest group defensively was made worse.  Now that they have built up a rather solid looking stack of bottom six guys who are good enough to run up...

Just wait 5 minutes.

That was a valiant attempt at turning yet another thread into a Clarkson beetch-fest.

Normally, yes, but this structure is quite different and one that a number of teams seem to be evolving to.  Similar to Sakic in Colorado. He is basically making all decisions large and medium and leaves the bean counting to GM whats-his-name (Sherman). I certainly have no problem in Shanny...

I don't doubt for a second that if in 2 years, Timmy L is still running MLSE, Stamkos is available and still at the form he is now, that he will throw max money at him to come home.  The Leafs could/should be pretty competitive by then, hopefully still loaded up with young players like...

:-[ I stand corrected then.  Swear I read that in one of the articles on the day Dubas was hired.  I did work 16 hours that day so might be me. :P

They also had one of the highest PIM's in the league.  Soooo...

*Robot voice* FIRE CARLYLE. FIRE CARLYLE. CARLYLE IS DUMB. CLARKSON IS A DUMMY. (repeat)

Yeah it's pretty cool stuff he is into and I really like where it's going. I think it is far more useful and is truly "advanced" stuff.  We will likely never get much of a view into the actual information they get from it and what they glean from it but it's interesting stuff.

Analytics are never going to replace eyeball level opinions no matter how much faith you have in them.  At best they can support or refute certain aspects in the evaluation of a player.

This is a pretty interesting move by the Leafs, although I don't think the collective orgasm from many of the most critical of this Leafs regime was really warranted.  I'm perfectly happy to have a guy with a strong understanding of new'ish stats (actually, old stats regurgitated in a...

NUMBERS!!!! NUMBERS!!!! GLORIOUS NUMBERS!!! 8) :-*

Looks to be a very different situation (we think) but yes another one. Appears they know for sure this one was shot down and where it is, just now a matter of who to blame for doing it. 

*cracks beer, hands to Potvin*

What a team knows vs. what we know are night and day.  We know a fraction about what every player is really like. Teams know a helluva lot more. The team is going to know all about a player and what kind of "character" he brings, positively or negatively. How can you say that isn't important...

Fair, but do you not think that grey area is an incredibly large part of what makes up a successful team? It is very tough to determine, especially those of us on the outside looking in.  All I know is that teams will tell you they do a lot of research on players, ask others in the business...