cbc.ca - 11/21/2008
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Six weeks into the NHL regular season and we are beginning to see a familiar trend. Everybody is OK! Not great, mind you, but definitely OK.
Yes sir, parity has arrived and is living well in the fastest league on earth. There have been some early season disappointments, like Dallas and ...
theredskate.com - 11/21/2008
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theredskate.com —
Marc Crawford takes a look at why parity
persists in the league this season : In the
Western Conference, as of Nov. 18, there is no club that is less than two games under .500. In the East, just two teams are three games under .500, and if you ...
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Parity in the NHL
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It’s A Parity League
KK Hockey —
... living well in the fastest league on earth. There have been some early season disappointments, like Dallas and Ottawa, but most hockey insiders believe that those two teams will right their ships.
In the Western Conference, as of Nov. 18, there is no club that is less than two games under .500. In the East, just two teams are three games under .500, and if you look at the league as a whole, there are only six clubs that are less than a game under .500.
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Parity in the NHL
the red skate —
... Marc Crawford takes a look at why parity persists in the league this season:
In the Western Conference, as of Nov. 18, there is no club that is less than two games under .500. In the East, just two teams are three games under .500, and if you look at the league as a whole, there are only six clubs that are less than a game under .500.
Yes, if you don’t count OTL/SOL as losses.
He mentions a dearth of elite scorers and netminders around the league, and special team trends. Maybe so.
But to me, the most ...
The parody of parity in the NHL standings
Puck Daddy —
Former Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks and Colorado Avalanche coach Marc Crawford is blogging for CBC Sports, and celebrates the amount of unpredictable parity in the NHL this season. He also seeks to indentify some reasons for these tightly-packed races, starting with the goaltending: There are only a handful of great goalies in the league: Luongo, Brodeur, Lundqvist and maybe Backstrom. (Ed. Note: Probably shouldn't surprise anyone to not see Nabokov or Giguere here, considering the source.) ...
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