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Are people in Nashville able to watch the game on Versus? Are people in Detroit able to watch the game on Versus? What are the "Broadcasting Restrictions" that don't allow Versus to show the game in my area? Please, someone give me an answer.

I still think that their goal when they crashed into the net was truly a nongoal. When they showed it in slowmo and I replayed it in slowmo (double slowmo) you can see that the net is being lifted up before the puck crosses the line. The net wasn't completely off but it was lifted up.

So, Am I going to be able to watch any of the 1st round on Versus? I'm from Kentucky and have Newwave Communications.

Why in the world would they not be able to show the game in these areas? I'm in Kentucky and I'm getting a fishing show with no sound. It says that due to broadcast restrictions they cannot show the game. This is TOTAL CRAP!

When comparing teams, the Point percentage is useless. Everybody knows that a team that wins is better than a team that loses, right. According to POINT% one team can go 41-41-0 and have .500 They WON 41 games. But another team can go 0-0-82 and have .500 They LOST ALL of their games but now they look like they are as good as the team that won half of them. Point % is very SUBJECTIVE. A team who is better could have won more games but have a lower %. The actual WIN % is Objective. If you calculate the Actual win %, you will automatically know what team is better. The NHL does use point % to calculate standings, but in REAL life the win % is the true test of a team. In REAL life a team that loses ALL of their games sucks. Whether they lost them in OT or not.

It doesn't matter if it's the old NHL or the new NHL. Point percentages are DIFFERENT than Win percentages. agreed, the NHL's keeping up with POINT percentages is ridiculous. Too bad everyone is talking about WIN percentages.

Like I said before, you are calculating POINT percentages. If you mean to say POINT percentages, you are correct. But we were talking about WIN percentages. When talking about WIN percentages, I am correct. With WIN percentages, only the WINS matter. With point percentages, only the POINTS matter. Personally, I find POINT% useless. It is a very subjective way of comparing teams.

You are calculating the POINT percentage. Our current point percentage is .693 because we have 104 points out of a total 150 possible points. The WIN percentage is .653 because we have WON 49 games out of a possible 75 total games. Here is a link to NHL.com. This is their stats page. All of the teams POINT percentages are calculated and shown in red. These are not WIN percentages (note the P% at the top of the column). You are calculating the POINT percentage. I am calculating the actual WIN percentage. When speaking of a teams winning and losing record, it is useless to calculate the point percentage.

You've got it backwards though. They don't award points for OT/SO losses because they have a column for it. They have a column for it because they award points for it. If they did not award points for it, there would be no third column. But just because they award points, doesn't make it a win. If 2 teams play against eachother. In the current NHL One team MUST WIN. And one team MUST LOSE. The Winning team is awarded 2 points, no matter what. If the losing team loses in regulation, they get 0 points. If they lose in OT or a SO, they get 1 point. So if a game goes into OT the Winning team will get 2 points and the losing team will get 1 point. There is still a team that loses. The team that lost doesn't get a half of a win. they get ZERO wins. By what you are saying, if a game goes into OT, there will be 1.5 winners of that game. And that is impossible. There is only 1 winner. Both teams can't win. And a team can't be half of a winner. By what you say, if one game is played there can be a team that won 100% of their games. And the other team won 50% (or half) of their games. But that is impossible. If they only played 1 game, they can't be .500. If you only played 1 game, you couldn't have won half of them. in order to to win half of your games you MUST have played at least 2 games. You won one game and you lost one game.

How do teams win in sports where points aren't awarded? How do they calculate a win percentage? And if the 95 Wings won 62 games and they played 82 games, that means that they lost 20 games. lets put it this way, the number of games a team looses, has NOTHING to do with the WIN percentage. Only the games they actually WON. Only the games where they scored MORE goals than the other team. The only way you can WIN a game is to score more goals than the other team. You CANNOT WIN a game when the other team scores more goals. And if you scored the same number of goals, you still didn't win because the only way you can win is to score MORE goals. If you tied a team, you did not win. Even if they let you split the points, you did not win. The only reason they show OT loses is to award points. If points were not involved it would be wins-loses. not Wins-loses-OT loses. Anything other than a win is a lose. OT loses aren't half a win. It's still a whole lose. Kind of like you can't dig a half hole.

Points do not equal wins In a league of 30 teams...15 of the teams MUST be at or below .500 and 15 of the teams MUST be at or above .500. It is impossible for there to only be 5 teams below .500. Who did all of those 25 other teams play? Out of 82 games, there has to be 41 winners and 41 losers. There can't be 75 winners and 7 losers. Points have nothing to do with win percentages.

Actually, about half of the teams win over 41 games. And 37-35-10 is a losing record because you still lost 45 games. Whether you lost them in ot or not is irrelevant.

But no teams have played 82 games. Your winning record is based on games you have already played. Games won/games played. Not Games won/games will have played. If that were the case, Detroit would be at 0.598 and philly would be at 0.439.

Points have no place in the traditional way someone calculates a teams win percentage. Just because the NHL decided to reward a team for working hard for 60 minutes, doesn't mean that they didn't lose when the other team won. How points are awarded has nothing to do with a teams win percentage. The Wings have won 65% of their games. The Lions won 43% of their games. No points required.

I think the question should really be, Why do you get a point when you loose? But points or no points, a loss is a loss.

I think that I should get bonus points for being polite. And these two people should be forced to appologize to eachother and shake hands. Seriously though, there was no need for either of those comments.

Don't forget OT Losses

http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?articleid=35556...mp;service=page When I first read that title I almost needed on of those AEDs (automatic external defibrillators) It's great that he's doing well though.

16 minutes, not bad. As much as I'd like to see him play again, I don't think he will. Too risky.

beat cha http://www.letsgowings.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=48513

He might want to see if he can get a few extra bucks in. While I'd take 100k in a heartbeat, he may be hoping to squeeze an extra 50k out of them.

Word!

They know there is no way they can beat us playing our game. We are the better team. So they take cheap shots and get real physical to try to get us to play their game. If we try to play their game, they will win. The score ends up being 1-0 or 2-1. But if we force them to play our game by not retaliating and staying out of the penalty box we will win with scores like 5-0. The ducks are good, at their style of game. And the way to beat that is not to play their game.

The league wants the salary cap to look like a great idea. They want teams who wouldn't have had a chance 5-6 years ago to win the cup now. They want teams like Nashville and Atlanta to win. They want to be able to say, "SEE, we told you that the expansion was good. And just look what the salary cap has done for the nhl. It made contenders out of every team!" They see it as making fans (money) where there were no fans (money). And if a cinderella team wins or at least makes it pretty far, it increases the chances of making more money there in the future. Detroit will always make money. If they just throw a bone to the more developed fans every now and then they won't loose them either.

I had charter but it changed over to newwave communications. Are they one in the same?