http://mikedunshee.com Hockey Sabermetrics and Stats Analysis Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:21:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By: Mike Dunshee MDunsh@gmail.com During the 2006-07 season New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur began to approach the all-time wins record in NHL history, currently held by Patrick Roy. Brodeur also passed Jacque Plantes record 47 wins in a season and in doing so extended his own record by recording his ... http://mikedunshee.com/?p=82 By: Mike Dunshee; MDunsh@gmail.com                The greatest individual honor any player can hope to attain is the honor that was bestowed upon Mark Messier, Ron Francis, Al MacInnis, and Scott Stevens as all were inducted into the Hall of Fame over the summer. All four quite deserved the honor and were ... http://mikedunshee.com/?p=81 Are there any players playing for a contending team with a greater combination of salary and talent that look less interested in playing baseball than Bobby Abreu and JD Drew? Pretty much all season, and for that matter the entire decade both of these players have irritated front offices and ... http://mikedunshee.com/?p=79 Back in the late 90's there existed a young trio of AL shortstops that came to prominence around the same period, putting up numbers that had many proclaiming the three of them future Hall of Famers and the evolution of the position spawned from Cal Ripken. I am speaking of ... http://mikedunshee.com/?p=78 I grew up smack dab in the middle of CT so I have the privledge of knowing many Yankees fans, many Yankees fans. Really they aren't all that bad of people, just a little misguided. Actually they have been quite tolerable since oh, sometime in late October of 2004. Anyway ... http://mikedunshee.com/?p=77 Curt Schilling is blasting off again on steriod users Mark McGwire, Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds and Rafael "Period" Palmerio. On HBO Sports with Bob Costas, Schilling is very aggressive in callling out baseballs steriods users saying that the 1988 MVP Jose Canseco should have his MVP taken back and that ... http://mikedunshee.com/?p=76 As we get back into action after the All-Star break most of the mainstream baseball writers just give out second half grades or second half picks. Not me, it seems like a great time to look back at my preseason prognostications and see just how good I am. For review, ... http://mikedunshee.com/?p=75 So I've plodded back into work after 12 days off which featured a drive down old I-95 to visit Wrightsville Beach, Raleigh, Chapel Hill and a night in Manhatten on the way back. The grand fuel total for this 2000 mile trek in a hulking V8 F150 was about $325, ... http://mikedunshee.com/?p=74 With the Yankees in town there was ZERO coverage of game three of the NHL Finals this weekend in Boston. Which is too bad because many missed out on a very exciting contest in front of a rabid Canadian crowd. Ottawa Captain Daniel Alffredsson continues to have a stellar playoff ... http://mikedunshee.com/?p=73 Yankees had Thursay off and Detroit fell to Cleveland and "Pronk" Hafner. So we stay at 104 Tampa also had the night off so its still TBD 22-29 NYY 22-29  The Yankees go to Boston for the weekend. If they sweep the series they can put some real heat on the Sox and close ... http://mikedunshee.com/?p=72