Mike Haas

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@frank_seravalli @ctherien6 @GoldenKnights Historically, the winner of Game 2 also goes on to hoist the Cup about 75% of the time. Either a good team goes up 2-0 and then they're really in control, or sometimes a better or evenly matched team ties it up, and then it's a coin flip. Sequencing: less important than it seems!

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@charlieo_conn @avappleyard @Flyersrock0884 @PuckDrop_Pod @HockeyNewsHub NST tracks zone starts distinct from zone faceoffs. Has Michkov at 2 OZ starts, 4 NZ starts, 1 DZ start, and 41 OTF starts. Flyers as a whole have way more NZ/DZ starts than OZ starts, and those starts have primarily gone to the Dvorak and Coots lines.

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@charlieo_conn To be fair, most public models this year seem to be overestimating xG. Almost every team in the league is scoring fewer goals than expected on both NST and EH. Suggests a change in the underlying tracking data for shot attempts that the models haven't quite adjusted for yet.

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@lawstyle *Kerkering

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@charlieo_conn Hard not to be worried that they're costing themselves draft position and also making it harder to justify trading valuable pieces by fielding an overachieving (and fun?!) team with a low ceiling. This was kinda always the fear with the Torts hire, no?

[Giana Han @giana_jade]

How excited are you to be a part of the Flyers rebuild?
Matvei Michkov leans, grind and says into the microphone (in Russian):
“I guess that means well start winning when I get here.”

[Jakub Voracek @jachobe]

Oh my

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@charlieo_conn At some point the Flyers will figure out that you can only ask a team to play a hard, structured game for so long while they still lose most of their games before they start to give up again. The beatings will continue until morale improves!

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@charlieo_conn Anxiously awaiting Chuck Fletcher's "oh no, I've spent $10M and a bunch of draft capital on two third-pairing defensemen" moment.

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@TwistWizardPilz I think I resent this

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@TwistWizardPilz Hey did he hit a home run? Asking for a friend

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@charlieo_conn Aren't you actually keeping him because he's still better than the alternative -- Seeler or Connauton or whoever? This organization's obsession with doing things "the right way" at the expense of actually caring about who is good has gotten downright comical.

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@TwistWizardPilz Please no

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@BandwagonHops @ctherien6 Point is, they're not actually trying to restock talent or turn things around. The extent of the plan is to be hard to play against. That's it. It's not enough, so who cares?

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@WillCann4 @ATFulemin Of course. The Dems are feckless and incompetent, and the function of American democracy presents voters with a false dichotomy every election. But there is _still_ a meaningful difference between voting Democrat and voting Republican.

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@WillCann4 @ATFulemin Point is, one party would not have overturned Roe, and one did. That's a pretty big, meaningful difference!

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@WillCann4 @ATFulemin "These decisions don't affect me, personally, so I don't see what all the fuss is about"

[Mike Haas @mhaas12]

@TwistWizardPilz So is the score actually Buzz-2 Bandits then?