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S47 SMJHL PT 5 - Rival Teams
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(This post was last modified: 05-18-2019, 06:04 PM by ej27.)

There's always that one team - that one that you absolutely hate, whether it be because of a long history or because of that one bad game last week. Is the rivalry founded in statistics? It's not like you'd stop hating them if it wasn't, but let's see how your teams measure up anyway.

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Written option: Look at StatsVS in the sim index for the regular season and write at least 200 words, citing at least 3 stats, about how your team fared against their rival.

Graphics option: Look at StatsVS in the sim index and make a pre-game "what to watch for" infographic comparing your team to your rivals. Must include: 3 stats & both team logos.

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Some discussions took place about who the rivals are for our Vancouver Whalers and to me, it seemed like a pretty easy decision. A war of words has been happening since I signed with the Whalers last season for the playoff push they unfortunately did not have. The Halifax Raiders and the Whalers have been going at eachothers neck for some time now. And a surprising event took place during this season, seeing both teams agree to a trade. They do say that in business, their are no enemies nor friends so it was a good move for both teams, seeing Jimmy Slothface come into another province for S48 2nd round pick & S 48/49 4th round pick ( whichever is Reddit ).

Now, a look at the stats against eachother and how we faired.

RECORD: Playing 5 games against one another, the Raiders would be very happy with the outcome. The Whalers posted a 2-2-1 record against the Raiders, the Raiders coming out ontop. The Raiders had an unofrtunate season, finishing second to last. Winning 2 games against the 3rd place Whalers is something to be happy about.

PENTALTY KILL: Special teams make a big difference when it comes to winning games. Crucial penalties or penalty kills can make or break a victory. The Whalers killed 93.75% of the power plays they gave up to the Raiders. This shocked me considering we had an even record. Whats crazy about this, is that the next team on this list is the Raptors at 88%. Having a 5% gain over the next opponent when it comes to killing penalties is awesome. The Whalers battle when they play their rivals and make sure not to give up any special team goals. 

HITS: There is just something about playing against a team you hate that makes you get more physical. Posting a total of 91 hits against the Raiders, and them only hitting the Whalers 74 times. Shows how much our blood boils against Halifax and we take it to them on the ice. Every game seemed to be a playoff game against them, making sure that their bodies were aching when the 3rd period struck 0.

The Raiders and Whalers will most likely continue this rivalry for more seasons to come. With both teams having local roster players, it makes these games a little bit more exciting. If we do faceoff in the playoffs against eachother, everyone will be paying attention to that series.

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raiders  HALIFAX RAIDERS VERSUS VANCOUVER WHALERS  Whalers

Overall, this season wasn't the greatest for the Raiders where we finished second last in the standings, this below average season was reflected when you compare our season statistics to our rival, the Vancouver Whalers. Below are some of our worst stats against the team that we will be working on in the off season and hopefully see improvement for Season 48.

The first area we need to improve upon against the Whalers' team is hits. Against Vancouver this season Halifax had a total of 74 hits to Vancouver's 91 against us. In relation to other teams Halifax had the second least amount of hits in games against the Whalers, the only other team we hit less was Detroit at 73 hits total. From Vancouver's perspective they hit us the 3rd most out of every other team. Vancouver was the bigger harder team this season and if we can punish them a bit better next season we may be able to improve our record against Vancouver.

The second area we need to improve on next season is on the power play, we just weren't able to figure out the Whalers while on the man advantage. This season our power player percentage against them was an absolutely atrocious 6.25%. It sounds bad but it was even our worst effort, this percentage is only second to our efforts against St. Louis where we were unable to score on the PP for a 0% record against them. Against us however Vancouver had a 21.05% success on the man advantage, which was their 3rd highest among all teams. The differential between the two power play units is way to high and will need work in the off season.

One of our worst stats against the Vancouver Whalers this season was our shots on goal. This season total, we put 99 pucks on the Whalers' net which was our lowest against any other team in the SMJHL this season. Vancouver however had 158 shots on our goal, a differential of 59 shots total and their 5th highest against all SMJHL teams. This off season putting shots toward the net will need to be a focus of team practices in order to compete against our rivals in Season 48.

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The St Louis Scarecrows had a dominant regular season and had the best record in the regular season.  But, there is always that one team that seems to have your number and for the crows that would be the Montreal Militia.  

The Scarecrows outshot the Militia 201 to 184 yet only won two games out of their 7 meetings.  It would seem that Montreal was able to control the possession better in the games and get more quality shots off.

Looking at faceoff percentage, the crows only won 40% of defensive zone faceoffs.  This probably had something to do with the more high quality chances.

Lastly, looking at power play and penalty kill percentage, the crows had a 19.05% power play conversion and a 79.31% penalty kill rate.  These numbers are pretty average for the crows so nothing really surprising here so you can't blame the losses on special teams.  

So, the crows outshot their opponent, had low defensive zone faceoff wins and had average special teams.  This seems to be that the crows did not manage 5v5 play well in their defensive zone and got outplayed in the possession game.  They couldn't make up for the issues with stellar special teams so the Militia was able to come out on top of them for their season series.

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The Knights played Detroit a total of 6 times, and did not fair that well. Going 1-3-2 is not something to brag about. So what was the big issue here? First and foremost Kelowna played very poor defensively. Allowing a total of 25 goals to 15 goals for is not going to give you too many wins. What makes this stat a real head scratcher is if you look at the total shots for and against. In reality, Kelowna out shot Detroit 145-141 but it seemed the goalies had a really hard time figuring out the Detroit offense when they did get quality shooting chances. Another staggering statistic is how poorly Kelowna performed on special teams. Kelowna only converted on 5.88% on the PP. This is borderline unacceptable and would normally end up in some sort of shake up, the problem was that Kelowna didn’t really have many options. Their PK did however fair a bit better at 88.46% which is pretty respectable. So what can the Knights do to adjust their game to get some better results against Detroit in S48? Some defensive flexibility would be one thing. Changing up their special teams strategies is another. Lets hope that both things happen for next season.

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One of the first thing you’ll notice when walking into the St. Louis Scarecrows locker room is a sense of comradery, a sense of history, a sense of winning pride, and a sense of something else, not like the others mentioned before, it’s a of distaste, distaste for the Detroit Falcons…


Looking at this seasons stats versus the Falcons, on surface the stats don’t scream rivals.  The Crows handled the Falcons somewhat easily during S47, winning 4 out of the 5 match-ups, scoring 18 goals to the Falcons 14.
The Crows also had some of their best special team numbers against their rivals in S47, converting on 23.08% on the powerplay and killing off 82.08% of their penalties.

Now these numbers won’t make someone unfamiliar with SMJHL think that these two teams don’t like each other or that they have a storied past, but this number might, 178 is the amount of penalty minutes that these two teams put up in 5 regular season games.  That’s almost 3 entire games, just in PIMs.  To put that into perspective, the team behind Detroit for most PIMs vs. the Crows is Kelowna, the combined total for Knights & Crows is at 112 PIMs.

That last stat sure demonstrates the rivalry between the Crows and the Falcons, but as mentioned earlier, it’s not only in the stats, this rivalry goes deep, you can tell that in the Crows locker room, the Crows captain remembers his rookie season, where the Crows met the Falcons in the finals, beating them in six games.  Crows alum recalled many playoff series of the past between these two teams, both with strong identities and a strong sense of team pride.  

The SMJHL playoffs are now underway, Detroit has beaten Halifax in 4 games straight for the chance to play the Laurifer trophy winners, St. Louis Scarecrows.  A new chapter in the Crow v. Falcons history begins today, will the trade deadline revamping of the Falcons be enough to defeat the top seeded Crows?  Or will this years Crow rookies be able to remember back to their first playoff experience, like their captain, and remember that they were able to defeat their rivals on their path to the cup?

I asked for comments from past and current members of the Crows on their feeling on the Detroit Falcons, this was soon after the Falcons moved on to the next round of the playoffs to face the Crows, the answer were not all that varied, some recalled bitter losses to the Falcons in the playoffs, others talked about big wins against Detroit, but the one thing that was said many times, and echoed through the locker room was, ‘Fuck Detroit!”.  I think that this rivalry will be on display during this playoff series, and I for one can’t wait.

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The team I'm choosing is the Anchorage Armada since I did have the chance to pick them and do consider them a friendly rival of ours. Not so much a 'Grr how dare you exist!' rivalry but still one I want to beat. Especially with us now facing in the play-offs.

Vs the Anchorage Armada they were one of 2 teams we played 5 times rather than 6 but we had a great season against the. The final standings going 5-0. We managed to keep them under 10 goals (8 goals total) and was able to score a total of 20 goals. Giving us pretty good momentum going into the play-off series against them as favourites.

I'm not really that great when comparing stats since I'm just a new player trying to make a good player and sense of it all but one close stats was the hits. The Anchorage Armada won the hits category 83 - 78 vs. us the Vancouver Whalers. We will have to be careful since they only just beat us in physicality. Hits don't really convert to goals but this is something they don't need to worry about improving going into the play-offs and I can see this series being quite a physical one that leads to fights.


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Since Anchorage Armada is playing their Play off first round against Vancouver Whalers I decided to go with team as our rivals.
During the season we played 5 times against Whalers and lost every 5 of them. Dissapointing so far. Only team that we lost every time we played them. Armada got at least a point every other team in a league. Team from Alaska scored anly 8 goals against Whalers while allowed 20 goals. Per average 4 goals a game. Our powerplay didn’t worked really well against Vancouver while penalty kill was pretty decent. While Armada played 15 times on powerplay only 2 twice we scored. That isn’t great in a game where a lot depends on how good or bad your powerplay units are. While as I previously mentioned our penalty kill units was pretty decent against against Whalers. Out of 14 attempts vancouver scored 2. Another huge thing in modern game is face offs and here again Armada had their problems. Only in our defensive zone we more face offs than our rivals and if you want me to be honest with you Armada was pretty misserable in face in neutral zone and in offensive zone. Armada will have to get their powerplay units to work and centers to work harder in face offs and then the play off series should be allright

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Arguably the oldest rivalry in the SMJHL, the Detroit Falcons and Montreal Militia are always heated. Every season these two teams have highly anticipated games and this season was no different. On this evening's episode of SMJHL tonight, we look at how these two teams fared head to head this season.

Record: The Falcons and Militia had a very even head to head record. Overall the Falcons had a record of 3-3-1 against the Militia for a possible 7 points in the standings. Both teams each took a loss in a shootout throughout the series also. Both teams were very evenly matched and were as close as possible to splitting points in a 7 game series.

Home Ice Advantage?: Typically playing in front of your home fans gives a team a huge boost. This series did not seem to follow this trend though. In Detroit, the Falcons were 2-2 while Montreal was 2-1 in their home barn. Neither team could really come out as dominant and it shows just how fired up the players get when they're playing in a rivalry game.

Hitting: Both teams did not hold up when they got a chance to play physical. The two teams combined for a total of 252 hits through 7 games with the Militia leading the way with 129 hits. Things got chippy and when they get chippy, teams get physical.

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Looking at the record between us in Anchorage and other teams I located the only team we were unable to take a single win off of - the Vancouver Whalers. I wanted to see what lead to this so I will be isolating the three stats that I believe lead to our downfall.

Goal Differential - This might seem a little obvious. "Score goals and you win." but in the 5 games against Vancouver we only scored 8 goals, which is good for 1.6 goals per game. On the other side of the aisle Vancouver scored 20 goals in those same 5 games, good for 4 goals per game. Another way to look at it would be to say that for every goal we scored against Vancouver they scored 2.5 goals against us.

Powerplay - During the season we had an average powerplay success rate of 19.36%. Against Vancouver our success rate was below average, coming in at only 13.33%. Their penalty kill made us 6.03% less effective, with only 3 other teams being more effective at stopping us when we had man advantage.

Shots - You can't score goals if you don't shoot the puck. Vancouver made it extremely difficult for us to get shots on net. In 5 games we had a total of 104 shots, an average of 20.8 shots per game. Vancouver had 130 shots in this stretch of games, good for 26 shots per game on average. With 5.2 more opportunities per game they are more likely to score goals than we are.

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(This post was last modified: 05-23-2019, 04:49 PM by Rublic.)

When it comes to looking at who is the biggest rivals for the Halifax Raiders it is hard to look beyond their Canadian rivals from the other side of the country. This is a true rivalry of east coast vs west coast. I am of course talking about the rivalry between the Halifax Raiders and the Vancouver Whalers. A rivalry that had been fuelled by a war of words which took a weird twist at the trade deadline with jimmy slothface swapping teams for a bundle of picks.

Faceoff percentage overall:This was a clear battle of a possession based team in the Raiders going up against the run and gun style of the whalers. Overall the raiders dominated in the face off dot. The whalers averaged 47.77% efficiently while the raiders pulled off 52.22% efficiency when crossing sticks. These numbers will showcase the depth that the raiders have at center compared to the whalers

Whalers Center depth chart:
Boromini Canellini
Aaron Wilson
Andy Kerr
Kathwyrm Hepbjorn

raiders center depth chart:
Matt Kholin
Esa Parmborg
Taisei-Tiikeri Wawazat
Timmo Kyllonen


Face offs percentage in the neutral zone: when it came to dropping the puck in the middle of the ice the raiders outmuscled the whalers and managed to win 55.70% of the faceoffs vs the whalers 44.30% which allowed Halifax to control the flow of play. This stat also gave them the edge in 3 wins vs the 2 wins the whalers aquired.

Face off percentage in the defensive zone: when it came to winning face offs in their own end both teams managed to out muscle their opposition. The whalers won 53.47% of their defensive zone starts while the raiders managed to win 54.45%. These stats show just how important both teams put importance on defensive zone wins

Face off percentage in the offensive zone: because both teams put such emphasis on defensive zone wins, neither team managed a positive offensive zone rating. The whalers managed to win 45.55% of their offensive zone faceoffs while the raiders pulled off a success rate of 46.53%.

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