Playoffs have taken over our lives right now in the hockey community and this week's investigation will have hockey once again! A major story this week was Nashville's epic defeat of Chicago. One of the big reasons why this happened was the amazing goaltending performance by Pekka Rinne. Since his performance was so great, today will focus on how great it was by comparing his past playoff games, using only his first four games to make it even and show how great these first four games have been for him. 2010 Playoffs vs. ChicagoSave Percentage in 4 Games: .941 Lost in 6 games. 2011 Playoffs vs. AnaheimSave Percentage in 4 Games: .855 Advanced to second round. 2012 Playoffs vs. DetroitSave Percentage in 4 Games: .924 Advanced to second round. 2015 Playoffs vs. ChicagoSave Percentage in 4 Games: .908 Lost in 6 games. 2016 Playoffs vs. AnaheimSave Percentage in 4 Games: .889 Advanced to second round. 2017 Playoffs vs. ChicagoSave Percentage in 4 Games: .978 Swept them! Looks like history did NOT repeat itself this year! Maybe they can get past the second round??
Already the Stanley Cup Playoffs have been full of action with series being tied from two games or some teams play tonight to do just that. We saw Sidney Crosby score yesterday after having a great season and then Connor McDavid scored his first playoff goal after having a better season (or at least that's what I think... I mean... 100 points...). With all the goals being scored, do you ever wonder how many your team has had so far compared to the number they allowed? Today's statistics are all about this concept using a scatterplot and describing the distribution. Data: This was collected from all the games so far and will become invalid very quickly today but it is useful for today's games. Plotting the Points: For this, I thought that the amount of goals scored should be the x-axis because we are trying to study that compared to goals allowed, which will be the y-axis. The y-axis serves to explain the changes made by the goals scored by the team. Association: Positive- slope is increasing. Form: Linear- the pattern of the plot can be described with a line. Strength: Strong to Moderate- the points are close together and not scattered all over, but there are some stragglers. I wonder how much this will change after the first round ends. Pittsburgh is already off to a hot start and I feel for Columbus right now. I would like to see them have less negative goal differentials and win a game or two at home.
I hope that today will be a great day for hockey and we will see some cool things going on. That's all for today and we will be back next week! Hopefully you have been watching the Women's Worlds or at least have been following the scores on the Hockey page because this week's lesson will involve that tournament and will feature none other than the powerhouse of a team from the U.S. This begs the question of...
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