Jason Garrison's fifth year: Expecting goals
Cam Charron
July 04 2012 01:58PM
About a minute after my post on Province Sports about Jason Garrison went live, I got a barrage of texts from resident blog chief Thomas Drance:
"You kidding me?"
"5 Garrison goals"
"You expect JG to score 5 goals"
"Wrote it today"
"Least well thought out thing you've written in a while!"
Obviously I pride myself in thinking out at least half the things I write, but I calmly explained by reasoning. For one, I never stated that Garrison would score "5 goals". I wrote "upwards of five". The second thing to note is that I think five goals is a lot of goals for a defenceman.
Cory Schneider and the Canucks Have "Agreed in Principle" on a New Contract
Cam Charron
June 28 2012 08:24PM
To open the Canucks 2012 Summer Summit, Mike Gillis fielded a couple of awkward questions from host John Shorthouse. The first was about Justin Schultz - and he declined to comment on how the pitch meeting went. The second concerned the team's enviable depth in goal - some might even call it a log-jam - and any potential moves that might be on the horizon. While Mike Gillis declined to elaborate at length on any Luongo news - he told fans in attendance - and those watching over the canucks.nhl.com livestream, that the team had "agreed in principle" on a new deal with Canucks goaltender and pending restricted free-agent Cory Schneider.
Vigneault talks Jensen, Kassian and Zone-Starts with Canucks Army
Cam Charron
June 25 2012 08:21AM
At this weekend's NHL Draft, we were able to catch up briefly with Vancouver Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault. We didn't have the time for a full-length interview but we got a few thoughts from him on zone starts, along with two young players in the Canucks' system in Zack Kassian and Nicklas Jensen. Questions and answers are edited for grammar.
Cam Charron: You deploy your players so much differently than any other coach in the league. How involved do you get in the player selection process?
Alain Vigneault: Not at all. This is all the amateurs [scouts]. I don't see any of the games as far as the potential players that come to our organization so we've got a great amateur scouting staff that do a great job and it's all up to them.
Who is Dylan Reese? And why the Canucks should snag him
Cam Charron
June 20 2012 11:56AM
Dylan Reese.
I'd never heard of the guy, I've never seen him play, but his name popped up in two places of note: a spreadsheet, and this particular tweet:
Hey @camcharron RT @nolanknowsbest: ESPN Insider reporting Canucks might sign NYI defenseman, Dylan Reese for depth.
— Thomas Drance (@ThomasDrance) June 20, 2012
There's a reason Thom forwarded me that tweet.
Canucks scoring chance totals: 2011-12
Cam Charron
June 08 2012 03:18PM
Thom Drance and I at Canucks Army, along with many other hockey analysts, like to use numbers like "Corsi" and "Fenwick", which measure on-ice player shot differentials throughout the season. But critics of simple shot indicators like to say that these numbers don't matter because they don't take into account the quality of a shot.
So Thom and I seeked to reconcile this by sitting in front of the TV and watching every minute of every game, sober even, and recording every single quality shot. A web application helps us find out who was on the ice for every single scoring chance.
We're given a sheet at the end of every game, we post it here, and then we count them up. In the absence of much else better to do today, I figure we'd share our data with the world.
