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beccaiscold · 20 days

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As we get closer to the playoffs, I figured it would be best to make an introductory post for any new Canucks fans (or anyone that wants to bandwagon if your team didn't make it to the playoffs or if you're still deciding on who should be your team). A post like this was made by @mattymartin when the Avs were making it to the finals and it's what really got me into loving hockey, so I figured that I would return the favor for any newbies this season!

If you see this post on your timeline, please reblog! This took a very long time to make and I want this to reach as many new fans as possible!

Without further ado, here are your 2023-2024 Vancouver Canucks!

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masonshaws · 9 months

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FANTASY HOCKEY FOR TUMBLRINAS: A GUIDE

been curious about fantasy but have no idea how it works? and whatever guides google deigns to give you are not helping? do you live in canada or minnesota and have your coworkers managed to press-gang you into their fantasy hockey league and you don’t want to embarrass yourself? welcome! i have one whole season of fantasy hockey experience and managed to get second place in my league so i’m probably qualified to take you through this. strap in and hopefully this isn’t incoherent because i have extremely limited visual aids available!

PART 1: HOW IT WORKS

first, the two major fantasy sites are going to be yahoo fantasy and espn fantasy. which you use is probably determined by which one your league commissioner (person who made your league) likes better. disclaimer: basically all of my experience is with yahoo fantasy.

so before we get to talking about the draft - the first thing you do in your fantasy sports journey - let’s talk about what you’re drafting your favorite little hockey men for.

the goal of fantasy hockey is to win either head-to-head matchups or your group as a whole (depending on the settings of your league, to my knowledge head-to-head is more common) in individual stat categories that fall into two groups - skater stats and goalie stats. for instance, if all your skaters got more goals over the course of a week than your opponent’s skaters, you would win the point in that category. if your opponent’s goalies had a better average save percentage than your goalies, they would get the point in that category.

all stats are cumulative across your entire roster, for the record. even save percentage and goals allowed average for goalies, which are averaged out, use every goaltender appearance.

if your win-loss record is good enough (for some leagues, each category separately counts towards your record - for example if your league has 11 categories and you win 6, lose 4, and draw 1, your record is 6-4-1, not 1-0 - and for other leagues, each stat adds to a cumulative point total in different weights, i.e. goals worth 1, assists worth .5, etc., and whoever's total is higher wins), towards the end of the season you make your league’s playoffs, where you duke it out for the title.

there are two commonly-used sets of skater stats, which have become the ways people define fantasy hockey leagues as a whole: points leagues and “bangers” leagues.

points leagues use, as you can imagine, different points categories for skaters. the most common set of these is goals, assists, and power play points. potentially plus or minus shorthanded points depending on your league. bangers leagues, on the other hand, usually use those three stats plus shots on goal, hits, and blocked shots. this makes player selection more multifaceted and interesting and shifts the balance of who has more value in a given league. brady tkachuk is maybe the exemplar of a player who gains a ton of value in bangers leagues due to him having good points totals while also putting up a lot of value in those banger stats. i had esa lindell in my team last season, who put up a whole 24 points, none of them on the power play, but was still valuable to me because he had a lot of hits and blocked shots and helped me win those categories on a pretty regular basis.

you may be looking furiously on normal websites to figure out a player’s banger stats. you will not find them. ask me how i know this. your most reliable source of player stats is going to be the fantasy websites themselves, and you can look through player databases without having a team. yahoo, at least, even lets you do mock drafts, if you want to get cozy with the ui and the experience before you do it for realsies.

(a sample of what a fantasy stats page might look like. this particular one is displaying player stats from last season. if unfamiliar with stat abbreviations, in order, they are: games played, goals, assists, power play points, shorthanded points, shots on goal, hits, blocked shots.)

(same as above, but for goalies. stats in order: games started, wins, goals allowed, saves, shutouts, overtime losses.)

goalie stats are usually wins, goals allowed average, saves, and shutouts. plus or minus save percentage or overtime losses, depending on your site and settings. these are all pretty straightforward, with the small wrinkle of “do you take a better goalie on a worse team knowing he’ll win less but have better other stats” vs “do you take a more average goalie on a better team knowing he’ll be better supported by his system which might help his stats and definitely get him more wins”.

PART 2: THE DRAFT

now that you know what you’re looking for, let’s talk about the draft.

most fantasy drafts are “snake drafts”, meaning the pick order flips every round, in interest of fairness. while most pro sports drafts are the same order every round (1→16, 1→16, 1→16, etc.), they have history to fall back on. poor teams need better players to build around, while better teams already have those players. but in the average fantasy league, everyone is starting from zero. so the order goes 1→16, 16→1, 1→16, etc. for as many rounds as your draft goes. the person who picked last in the first round gets to pick first in the second round, and so on.

what you’re looking for here is highly dependent on your team settings. does your league just distinguish forwards from defense from goalies? or does forward position matter? (if it does, know a player is not locked into a spot once you use him there - he can play any of his listed positions at any given time, whether or not he actually plays that spot in the lineup. for instance, joe pavelski is listed as both a center and right wing - despite the fact he rarely plays center, you can deploy him there on any given night. or you could deploy him at right wing, if that’s where your opening is.)

i’m going to take you through this with the settings used by my last league.

in my league, you had 16 guys on your roster. 2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 2G, and 4 guys on the bench (who, if they played that day, their stats would not be added to any of your totals, although this was rarely an issue). so on my team, i usually had 8 forwards, with at least 3 people able to play each position, 5 defensemen, and 3 goalies. your league might have a bigger roster, it might not have a bench, it might not care about where forwards play as long as they’re forwards, and this all influences the spread of who you draft and when. if your league calls for - in the case of espn’s default league settings - 9 forwards, 5 defensemen, 1 utility player (put another way, any skater), 2 goalies, and 5 guys on the bench, well, you probably take 12 or 13 forwards, 7 or 8 defensemen, and 3 goalies, and it’s on you how you prioritize the order of that.

really, the important parts of the draft are the first few rounds, when you pick the really high-end guys. later-round players are easier to swap out for each other - which you can do! any guy not drafted is considered a free agent, and if you draft a guy who’s underperforming, you can swap him out for an undrafted guy who’s doing better. so don’t sweat the later rounds too much beyond what roles you need to fill. you can let your fantasy site’s ranking board help you out there.

lightning round q&a:

when do you pick a goalie? generally people go the same way nhl teams do in the entry draft - probably not in the first round unless he’s a really sure thing to an extent that he’s more valuable than whatever top skaters are still there.

can you run with just 2 goalies? if you are extremely confident that your 2 goalies combined can match the output of other teams going with 3 goalies. if you have a vasilevskiy or a sorokin or the type of goalie who is a clear starter and plays at a high level for those starts and your other goalie is giving good starts, then yeah maybe you can run with 2. i did for a bit. take the third goalie though, it’ll make your life so much less stressful, especially if your league has a minimum amount of goalie appearances requirement (mine did - your goalies had to make 3 appearances a week for their stats to count at all).

when do banger stats become more valuable than points? i wish i had a clear answer for that. you just gotta feel it out, man. broadly, when a player’s point total starts to get into average territory, then probably start really looking for those banger stats to maximize value. but if a guy has notable banger stats then maybe you take him before point totals get average. no good answer to this one, sorry

is there any reason for mcdavid not to be 1oa, even in bangers? no, and anyone who tries otherwise is being contrarian for the sake of it. if you luck out getting 1oa just take mcdavid. come on.

if you pick last in the first round, are you boned? well i picked last and got second place, so no you are not :)

when do you make a “reach” pick? as you’re drafting, you’ll have a list of players ranked by the site in front of you. use that to help but not as a bible. you reach when you think someone will take a player before you get to pick again, and the difference between that player and the next player on your list is worth the risk.

idk if people have more questions i can make another post or something. maybe you don’t have any of these questions. i hope it was useful anyways

PART 3: FANTASYING

here’s the meat-and-potatoes nitty-gritty of it all. here’s a very retro view of what your team hub might look like - note the ui absolutely does not look like this anymore:

you can actually see on here what i was talking about earlier with that “guys who play multiple positions can be used in either/any” thing. malkin is listed as both a center and a right wing, and is deployed as a center here, but if, say, this person wanted to bring in derek roy but still use malkin, he could put roy in malkin’s center spot and move malkin to bump selanne or jagr to the bench.

good news! i did manage to find someone’s screenshot with something similar to current app ui:

player stats for the week would be under where it says no game, but you can actually see the ir+ spot in use and what the general layout looks like. actually, speaking of ir-

let’s talk about ir real quick. and this bit is all based on yahoo fantasy, so if espn does this different, i’m sorry and you’re on your own

so! if your team has a dedicated ir+ spot, you can put any guy who is officially listed as out (O, as keller is above), injured reserve (IR), or long-term injured reserve (LTIR) there, and he will not count against your roster total. you have a limited amount of these spots, so probably don’t get landeskog, confirmed to be missing the whole season, and stick him on there, although you can and it won’t affect your main team at all. it would only be a problem if with him you have more injured guys than there are ir+ spots. with this, you could even draft a guy starting the season injured, like a brandon montour, stick him on an ir+ spot, and get a fill-in guy out of free agency afterwards (since you’ll only be drafting enough players to field a team without any injuries), if you think that when he’s healthy, he’ll boost your team enough to be worth missing out on a player of the caliber of where you drafted him. so if a player on your team gets injured and you have ir+ spots, use them! pull a guy out of free agency to take the injured player’s spot and go about your merry business knowing you can still field a full team.

anyways - as before, only the players off the bench (in the white spaces on this ui) count towards your totals. so, and i cannot stress this enough, MAKE SURE YOUR PLAYING PLAYERS ARE ACTUALLY PLAYING AND ADDING TO YOUR STAT TOTALS. much heartbreak has been had by people who have forgotten to do this. yahoo has a fun little button that will automatically do this for you, but only for the week, so keep up with that, too. (for purposes of fantasy, weeks start on mondays btw.) it might also not always start the people you want starting if there’s more guys playing that night than there are spots on your starting roster, so watch for that, too. like if you have 4 defense spots and you have 5 defensemen playing that night, decide which one’s stats you’re most okay with missing out on. players only lock in once their game time comes around, so you do usually have the entire day to decide. you might be influenced by where your matchups are standing - if you’re definitely losing your assists matchup, but your hits matchup is close, you might sit your points-producing defenseman in favor of your big hitter. stuff like that.

and that’s actually pretty much it! even playoffs work the same way. once you’ve got your team, the day-to-day of fantasy is pretty simple. make sure your players are playing, adjust your team with free agents if necessary, conveniently ignore trade requests if they suck (as far as i can tell trading is more prolific in irl fantasy groups where people know each other better, we had like no trades in my online league of strangers last season), root on some guys you’ve never heard of before because you need them, and have fun!

#hockey guides #fantasy hockey #hockey primer #hockey #nhl #op #i hope this is good.

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kevbino2 · 9 months

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I decided I want to get into hockey but have zero idea how. Is there a side of tumblr for hockey fans? I decided I like the kraken specifically for their silly little mascot. Do people live post about games? Do y’all have inside jokes and make silly memes? Is there chronically online hockey fans that welcome people who don’t really know anything but just want to be involved in something? There’s a blaseball shaped hole in my heart and I’m filling it with real sports

#seattle kraken #hockey #like I need the type of community as the people who all read Dracula together #blaseball #I don’t know anything about the sport I just want to be invovled #I just like the pretty colors of the uniform #when even is hockey season #I need a start guide on how to watch hockey dear god #where do I even watch it #is it normal to like a Seattle team when you live in Indiana #I know hank green likes these people tho so I think I chose correctly

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msmargaretmurry · 3 months

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I see your posts with the wip tag and I am 👀👀 is there anything you feel comfortable telling us about it/them?

hi anon, it's very sweet of you to ask! unfortunately i don't really have any new information about wips to share right now 😔 the wip tag is just kind of my catch-all tag for posts that vibe with anything i'm working on so i can scroll back through like a mood board.

i have shared some stuff about some of the wips i have in the queue, though — you can poke around in the ratsequel tag for the head above water sequel that theoretically one day i will finish writing and the eldest daughter quinn hughes tag for some stuff about that wip (rule 63/cisswap warning for that one though!)...... i do not think i have tags for any other wip sorry :( also i have no idea if/when any of the wips will be finished due to grad school eating up all of my energy and free time so uhhh please don't get your hopes up, lol.

#ask #my fic #hockey for ts #why did i italicize haw like a book title. ive been off work for three hours and im still in style guide mode

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eusuntgratie · 6 months

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Hearing that you’re still writing TKNP, in this economy?!?!

SWOON!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 I can’t wait, your stuff is fabulous!!!!! (And another snippet from hunting guide au?? 🥹)

I am! I actually have an tknp fic that will be ready for y'all soon. Probably the next thing I'll post. And I have a couple wips and ideas floating around in my brain. Winnipeg mess is tknp-adjacent, too :)

here ya go:

“Sorry I’m late,” he says, in a deep mumble. “We got a moose this morning, so I’m running a little behind.” “Hi!” Anna calls loudly, waving frantically at the screen. “How big was the moose? Was it a bull?” He beams at her, and Travis’ heart falls through his ass. Fuck. “You must be Anna! It was HUGE. A really nice bull, yeah. You can only hunt the bulls.”

WIP Wednesday (send me an ask to make me write!)

#hunting guide au #wip wednesday #wip wednesday game #tknp #hockey rpf

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toffoliravioli · 2 years

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embarrassed to say it took me this long to get into umich hockey. obviously i knew what it was and some of the players but i just went down a rabbit hole and now im kinda obsessed so um.....hi umich hockeyblr 👋👋

#literally sucks that most of them have went their seperate ways and im late but #still love them all individually #but if anyone has like suggestions or wants to guide me on my discovery any help would be lovely #umich hockey #hockey rambles

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emphasisonthehomo · 2 years

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People realizing their hockey fave is a scumbag shouldn’t be funny, but definitely is. 99.999% of the NHL is scumbag, I’m sorry but that’s how the math works out. It’s a bunch of semi-famous (mostly white) young men than make millions of dollars playing sport. Don’t be surprised, be disappointed.

#aron watches hockey #it’s basically a step by step guide #on how to grow up to be an asshole

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larsnicklas · 1 month

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on the topic of learning about hockey in a noncondescending and accessible way... along with the kraken broadcasts — super informative and very easy to follow along for newer hockey fans while still being interesting for people who are more familiar with the game — if you’re interested in the technical side of hockey i highly recommend dimitri filipovic’s hockey pdocast. along with discussion of teams’ playing styles and the state of hockey generally, he does lots of player breakdowns with accompanying video mixtapes of the players he does deep dives on! every ep he does is very thoughtful and well researched, but here are some of my favorite episodes from the past year or so

aleksander barkov’s defensive impact, and why it fuels florida’s success / barkov mixtape

elias pettersson’s brilliance on and off the puck / pettersson mixtape

projecting major junior play to the nhl level

simon nemec and driving offensive results from the defensive position / nemec mixtape

quinn hughes' monster season, and how he creates so much for the canucks / hughes mixtape

defensive environments are voodoo

breaking down willy nylander’s career year, and how he’s doing it / nylander mixtape

the magic behind nikita kucherov’s wizardry / kucherov mixtape

matthew tkachuk’s playoff run / tkachuk mixtape

this is a podcast that can uh sometimes be dry? because a lot of it is very technical breakdowns, and i know that's not everyone's cup of tea! but i enjoy it a lot as it's very straightforward and nothing is sensationalized, and dimitri and his various guests get so genuinely excited about the players they're talking about that it makes it fun even when they get lost in the sauce lol. would really really recommend this pod in general if you're someone who likes learning about hockey; this is a podcast that does a good job of giving the appropriate weight to analytics and what some people might call the eye test, and i've picked up a lot from dimitri and his work over the years!!

#meg.recs #unsuprisingly the sasha ep is my actual favorite pdocast ep LOL i just <3 #love a smart defensively responsible centreman!!!#anyway. felt like i shouldn't just complain about overly feminized for no reason guides to hockey lol #and then not offer up cool resources to learn about some more detailed aspects of the game. here's one of them!

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oddmanoutninja · 5 days

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MLB-NBA-NHL Betting Guide (4/29/24-5/6/24)

This week’s betting guide features a powerhouse in the MLB, an underdog in the making for the NBA Playoffs, and an NHL team that finally broke the ice in the NHL Postseason. MLB-NBA-NHL Betting Guide (4/29/24-5/6/24) Baltimore Orioles (17-10) – They are the best team at going OVER the Total, cashing at a 64% clip. They are a winning team on the Run Line as well going (15-12). This week I like…

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#baseball #basketball #betting advice #hockey #MLB #NBA #nba playoffs 2024 #nhl #nhl postseason 2024 #schedule #sports #weekly betting guide #where to watch

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laresearchette · 2 months

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Thursday, March 07, 2024 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT: THE THUNDERMANS RETURN (Premiering on March 18 on YTV at 7:00pm)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA RICKY STANICKY

DISNEY + STAR POOR THINGS

NETFLIX CANADA THE GENTLEMEN (GB) I AM WOMAN THE SIGNAL (DE)

CURLING (TSN/TSN3) 10:00am: 2024 Montana's Brier: Pool Play (TSN/TSN4) 3:00pm: 2024 Montana's Brier: Pool Play (TSN) 8:00pm: 2024 Montana's Brier: Pool Play (TSN4) 10:00pm: 2024 Montana's Brier: Pool Play

MLB SPRING TRAINING (SN) 1:00pm: Philles vs. Rays (TSN5) 1:00pm: Atlanta vs. Red Sox (SNEast/SNOntario) 6:00pm: Jays vs. Tigers

TENNIS (TSN4) 2:00pm: Indian Wells - Early Round Coverage Day #2

NHL HOCKEY (SN360/SNPacific) 7:00pm: Flames vs. Lightning (SNWest) 7:00pm: Oilers vs. Blue Jackets (TSN2) 7:00pm: Habs vs. Hurricanes (TSN4) 7:00pm: Leafs vs. Bruins (SNPacific) 10:00pm: Canucks vs. Knights (SN) 10:30pm: Islanders vs. Sharks (TSN5) 10:30pm: Sens vs. Kings

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN5) 7:00pm: Pacers vs. Timberwolves (SN1) 9:00pm: Raptors vs. Suns

THE GREAT CANADIAN POTTERY THROW DOWN (CBC) 8:00pm: It's raku week and the potters are all fired up.

LAW & ORDER TORONTO: CRIMINAL INTENT (City TV) 8:00pm: When a beloved art professor, Eve Kinwood, is killed, the team must use her art to find the "Real Eve" and her killer.

ALMOST PARADISE (CTV2) 8:00pm: Alex goes undercover as a prisoner and, with the help of Kai and Ernesto, figures out how The Waterboarder has been running his criminal empire from behind bars.

HOLMES FAMILY RESCUE (CTV Life) 8:00pm: These homeowners always put their family and friends first, but after suffering a stroke, they need help with their own bungalow; Mike, Sherry, and Michael step in and uncover a number of dangerous issues, and look to create a safe home.

THE BRIDGE (Discovery Canada) 8:00pm: Luke and Maura must choose between the rest of the group and themselves; back at camp, reinforcements arrive in the form of two new team members.

AN OPTIMIST'S GUIDE TO THE PLANET (Crave) 8:10pm: Move

THE NATURE OF THINGS (CBC) 9:00pm: A hair-raising journey into the salon, the lab, a remote Chinese village, a baby nursery and even a wildlife sanctuary to explore the surprising new research at the root of hair.

LEGO MASTERS AUSTRALIA (Discovery Canada) 9:00pm: The teams have to build a stunt vehicle that can go up a ramp and soar through a ring of fire, clear nine LEGO school buses and explode on the ground.

GAY GAMES (Out TV) 9:00pm: The Gays Games XI Guadalajara 2023 are the largest sporting and cultural event in the world aimed at the LGBTQ+ community and allied people.

#cdntv #cancon #canadian tv #canadian tv listings #the great canadian pottery throw down #law & order toronto: criminal intent #almost paradise #holmes family rescue #the bridge #an optimist's guide to the planet #the nature of things #lego masters australia #curling #mlb baseball #tennis #nhl hockey #nba basketball

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