Ovimaxxing: Snapshot | RMNB

I thought I had things all summer to prepare things that I should say about Alex Ovechkin catch Wayne Gretzky. I couldn’t imagine that at his age he would be a better pace of 50 goals. I found it strange that other people thought he could do it this season.

I have written many times about how Ovechkin’s durability (RMNB) has become his most important feature, but even still I am shocked by his ability to continue scoring. Here is the difference in how he and Gretzky achieved after 29 years.

Only one of his increasing achievements: he has more goals in the thirties than any other player – from many things that Phil Esposito 419 to 374 leads. The goal 420 will make him the greatest ever, driven by a series of comebacks (doubters who are “washed out”) at least 14 years.

I was sometimes under these doubts. Last summer, for example, I didn’t believe that Ovi had the forward support he needed to get the recording. “As great as it is,” I wrote in May: Stroms have twenty Ovechkin goals this season, ten. Stroms appeared and proves me incorrectly, and it was just one of the many differences that drove this historical run. The capitals were ovimaxxingOptimize your captain all season. We see this in the lines, ice age, deployment and even in the list.

A depressing editorial footnote in the recording: I am not sure whether it could have happened if Backstrom, Oshie and Kuznetsov were still on the active squad.

But that’s the only downer in this snapshot. The following tables show the statistics of the team, while each player is on the ice during the five-against-five game. Interesting points are highlighted for discussion. A glossary follows.

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defender

glossary

• Toi – Time on ice in minutes. Here you will only find five against five games.
• Sa% Share share. The proportion of total shots that Washington is on the ice during the skater during the skater during the five-against-five game. 50 percent even means.
• XGF% – Percentage of the expected goals. The proportion of the expected goals that Washington create on the ice during skate in the five-against-five game. The expected goals weigh how likely how likely a goal is that every attempt is. 50 percent even means.
• GF% -Profentual goals. The proportion of the Washington, which Washington is scored by Washington, is on the ice in the five-against-five game. 50 percent even means.
• Pdo -The sum of the shooting share in Washington and the savings share when the skaters is on the ice during the five-against-five game. One means the average of the league. The acronym stands for nothing and yes, I hate it.

Notes

• The Washington Capitals were the team behind 54.1 percent of the shot attempts since our last snapshot – sixth place. If these attempts are weighted by their probability to become goals, it is 51.1 percent and 15th place. We don’t make much special teams in the snapshot, but the Power Play Stunk (22nd place after Torrate) and the penalty kill was fine on the 17th place. I look at these numbers that ask me what it means for the playoffs and I have no idea. I am not sure whether the team will play like this in the off -season – but more about it at a moment.
• Experience Pierre-Luc dubois‘Five-against-five shifts since our last snapshot. Only the St. Louis’ Jordan Kyrou had a higher differential during this period (plus 12). Dubois’ season-long on-Ice-goal percentage (GF%) is 65 percent, preferably among full-time caps players. Because goalkeeper Logan Thompson fell back to Earth, PLD has the sole title of the most valuable player in Washington.
• And it is not particularly close. Dubois is one of the best in the league in Gar goals over the replacement, an all-catzic statistics for player quality, which is calculated here by Evolving Hockey. These are the ten best strikers – all great society:

• Tom WilsonIn a career-best 32 goal season there is also up there, but there are indications that it depends on a part of his success on Dubois. When they are on the ice together, the caps check 51.9 percent of the shot attempts (fifty percent being even and higher). If Dubois is on the ice without Wilson, the percentage is 53.4, but when Wilson is on the ice without dubois, he is 48.6 – less than straight.
• Read this next part with a focus: That doesn’t mean Wilson is bad! He’s great! He has a great season! That fairly suggest This skills of Dubois is a critical addition to Wilson – and underlines how good Dubois is.
• But enough about the MVP, let’s visit low old Alex Ovechkin. The Caps control only 44.0 percent of the expected goals (XGF%A proxy measurement for Puck ownership Obviously he is a fraud. Do not let the 59.7 percent of the gates belonging to Washington to distract you from the flimsy facade, which is the alleged, sometimes big goal scorer of all time.

Alex Ovechkin binds Wayne Gretzky for most destinations in NHL history with 894

• I’m silly, but it is important to recognize first that Ovechkin is really, very strange this season. Get 59.7 percent of the goals (elite) and at the same time check only 44.0 percent expected Goals (poor) are extremely unusual. Of 5,447 player seasons since 2007 with at least 600 minutes five-against-five games, only 16 have expected a larger gap between and actually saw. (Number one is Steve Ott with Buffalo in the shortened season 2013, in which the Sabres exceeded the opponents 22 to 15, while they only controlled 40.2 percent of the shot attempts.) What has happened there.) Ovechkin, which does what he does, is almost as extreme, but the reasons for this extremity are not the same. You can’t be. We cannot have ourselves overdated here. The limits of sporting performance are strange. Cal and LeBron and even phelps should first be regarded as freaks and legends. If the player is so far out in the spectrum, we no longer give ourselves insights. It only makes us annoying to speak at parties. Lean back and take a look at the game. Dweeb.
• But his missions. We have to talk about it. Alex Ovechkin from 2024-25 is currently the most offensive player since the stat has been followed. This means that he is on the ice on the ice for far more face zone in the offensive zone than in the defense zone. Below you will find all forward transactions in the data set. From 5,852 Ovi is the first.

• It is the entire team that makes him have the goal. As soon as it is reached, Will will Spencer Carbery adjust – end the ovimaxxingBalancing a little carefully, maybe optimize the full team for more success in the post -season? Keep an eye on the zone in the eye in the next few weeks.
• The front office certainly seems to make the right decision in the deadline. Anthony BeauvillierIn addition to the RDR2 -NPC mentioned, which gives you a secondary rest source to murder a veteran of the civil war Nic dowd And Brandon Duhaime. They surpassed opponents five to three in 79 minutes and drove convincingly 57.8 percent of the attempts, 53.9 percent of the expected Tore mit tons of net crashing. If I say a line against – let’s just say – let’s say – Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield, I would definitely choose Dewey, Judy and Rveny. Beauvillier Can and played in the line -up, but the benefits of great decommission could be worth the opportunity above.
• I passed through the removal Ethen frank From the snapshot. He is still finished with the Big Club and is not justified for the bear’s off -season, but it has only been suitable twice since our last snapshot. This is a frustrating situation with the journey for a player that we would all like to develop.
• On the other hand I added Ryan Leonard To the snapshot from a mood. He only played for 40 minutes, so don’t pay too much pay attention to the numbers. Except for this: 14:20 average ice age per game. This is a bin for a player of this green. This is more than Duhaime, Mangiapane, Raddysh and Eller Get. And play in the top Six in his debut? The team, like Chris, clearly loves this child.
• I will not lie: I don’t have much to say about the defense. Carbery has locked himself in the same couples: Sandin and Carlson, Chychrun and TVR as well as Fehervary and Roy. Chychrun TVR is most offensive of the three. Sandin-Carlson is the best while driving and Fehervary-Roy is a sleeper that could surprise you.
• Martin Fehhervary Perhaps the best month of his career would have played so far: eight points in 15 games that opponents have crossed a lot, even though they started a lot in the defensive zone. A few weeks ago he only had one stinker in the rehearsal, on ice for all three Panthers goals. If there is a Blueliner who could have a Brooks Orpik 2018 action sheet this spring, then it is Marty.

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