Phew. Do you want to know a secret?
Posted at 7:45 am
come closer Still. Press your face against the screen. Are we alone? Also.
It’s all about the lines in training camp. I know this is stressing you out. You saw Cole Caufield with Mike Hoffman on Monday night. Now you’re worried that they’ll be paired all season long. And you cringe at the thought of Juraj Slafkowski spending his winter with Rem Pitlik and Kirby Dach.
But you know what?
It doesn’t come.
Training camp is like a trailer. It’s rarely a reliable preview of the final product. Besides, in the National League, triples in October are as ephemeral as doublesDual career.
Let’s check it out.
Let’s take the starting formations of all teams last season. Let’s put this information into Data Blender. Crouch, crouch, crouch. Let’s add the summaries of all the games of the season. Menium, menium, menium. What does that give us? Number of minutes played by opening game trio partners together in 2021-22.
Now estimate the median.
100 minutes?
200 minutes?
300 minutes?
Not even close. Answer: Just 50 minutes. About five or six parts. Well, seconds are lost left and right on bench changes. But the end remains…
