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Wednesday, December 09, 2009
How to guarantee you will lead the NHL’s point standings
Hawerchuk says something interesting:
In the post-lockout NHL, if you don’t score – and you keep your opponent off the board – you’ll end up in 82 completely random shootouts and finish the season with 123 points, good enough to lead the league every single year.
Imagine, for example, that two bad teams are playing each other. They each know that if the game ends up tied after 60 minutes of regulation and 5 minutes of OT, that one team will end up with 1 point, while the other ends up with 2 points. They also know that if they put in any efforts whatsoever, one will end up with 2 points, and the other almost always with 0 points.
So, in a very unsportsman-like sense, the best way for two teams to approach a game is to simly dump the puck, and skate back to their own end. If they both do that for 65 minutes, it goes to OT, and one team will end up with 2 points, and another 1. Or, on average, each will end up with 1.5 points. And with 82 games, that’s 123 points (75.0% of available maximum points each game).
Now, NO ONE is going to conspire to do this. But, I still appreciate the idea…
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