Seeing some discussion about PDO and whatnot today. A reminder: that stat is kind of just made up and doesn’t really mean anything actually.
To clarify: just because a team has a higher PDO doesn’t necessary mean they are getting “lucky”, or we should expect them to “regress”. The opposite is true re: unlucky. If a team has good shooters and good goaltending etc, they may just be a good team with a high PDO.
But, re: the Leafs - is their current performance this season unsustainable? Almost certainly. But I’d say that’s because they have a G+/-60 of 1.19 which only the 18-19 Lightning surpassed. So, yeah, that’s probably not sustainable.
We've hinted at this over the years, but before our current hockey stats obsession took hold (sometime in the fall of '16), we had a different obsession that we devoted all of our time to: music. We've been on hiatus so to speak, but we're getting back into it now.
Given the uncertainty of the current global situation, the absence of hockey, and a natural stopping point for us in general, we're planning to revisit our musical endeavors. Of course, we will still be maintaining @EvolvingHockey - nothing will change there.
Let us begin. We were both music majors in college (Luke: theory/composition, Josh: trombone performance). While these were entirely in the western classical tradition like most conservatory degrees, our own music did not really involve either.