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by Alanah McGinley on 05/07/08 at 07:28 PM ET
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Just a few stories mildly related to Canuckish-type things:
- Dave Nonis is being summoned for an interview in hell
- Alex Edler made a not-so-endearing contribution to one very embarrassing Swedish team loss at the World Championships - a 10 minute game misconduct penalty
- A company called Coleman Analytics has five NHL teams (and they’re looking to add Vancouver to their list of clients) that are paying them up to $100K a year for “basic” analytics services. Honestly, I bet plenty of obsessive & mathematically-inclined hockey fans would gladly kick those numbers out for free, or maybe a bit of swag. (I know, I know. I’m over-simplifying… but at least let The Forechecker bid for the job.)
And some non-stories…
- Matthew Sekeres, the usually-excellent Canucks writer for the Globe & Mail, wrote an Ode to TEAM 1040 late yesterday and I still have no idea why. (Perhaps the Globe won’t give him his hard-earned vacation time and this is his way of rebelling?)
- But there’s always Brad Ziemer at the Vancouver Sun yesterday, who managed to corner the Canucks’ CEO (and former Nike Bauer Hockey CEO) Chris Zimmerman on the golf course to ask him some serious questions on issues facing the team… (Err, no, not really. I lie. They actually talked golf. Nothing but golf. Geezus. I’d rather read that Ode to a Radio Station thing again...)
- And finally, the perpetual non-story (no link; it’s everywhere I turn) of “Will Luongo Stay or Go?” which continues to bore me to tears. Just fix the mess on the ice in front of him, and he’s not going anywhere. He has a contract. End of story.
Not much else going on— just waiting to hear that Alain Vigneault has been fired (or turned into Markus Naslund’s assistant coach/stick boy), and that maybe in about 6 weeks the Canucks have some sort of plan not to botch the draft and the free agency market.
Both dreams are probably pretty unrealistic.
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Tags: alain+vigneault, alex+edler, media, roberto+luongo, statistics,
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A very relevant point. I wasn’t thinking, just putting Nike like that—I’ll make the correction. Thanks. 
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 05/08/08 at 01:31 AM ET
$100,000.00 per year.
Heck, my mom’s a math major and my brother has a masters in statistics - someone should hire them for “basic analytic services!”
Interview in hell...heh-heh. Not quite the “hockey Vatican,” huh? I wonder if that is an implicit admission that all their attempts to get a proven, winning name for GM have gone exactly nowhere and they have gone on to best person available.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/08/08 at 07:31 AM ET
Baroque - That (up to) $100K figure was actually qualified with the idea it’s for the “basic” services. “Add ons” are extra, so god-only-knows the money they’re really charging at the end of the day.
Your mom and brother could make a mint off this lunatic league.
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 05/08/08 at 09:04 AM ET
Heck, I took statistics in college and can operate an Excel spreadsheet with the best of them - I’d be willing to calculate numbers and stuff for a lot less than that (but only for teams that don’t play in Southern climates, in case I had to make a site visit. Warm weather is nice, don’t get me wrong, but I hate bugs - Arizona and Texas and Florida are full of bugs.)
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/08/08 at 11:06 AM ET
TEAM1040 turned seven years old this week. It was a big, one day celebration, hence the ode to the TEAM… I’m guessing…
Posted by John Bollwitt from Vancouver, B.C. on 05/09/08 at 10:48 AM ET
Baroque—I seem to recall putting up a video a few years ago (on my old website) featuring dueling spiders or something while I was making some insane hockey analogy. And if I remember correctly, you were actually the only person who watched that video that didn’t curse me for the nightmares it was going to cause you. So I assumed you loved bugs!
John—I’m aware that it was an anniversary of sorts. But I’m not persuaded it was a story worthy of national press coverage. Sekeres is a good writer, yet even in his telling of it, the The Story of TEAM 1040 did not fascinate me. Sorry.
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 05/10/08 at 10:54 AM ET
Cynical?
52 weeks X 40 hours a week = 2080 hours. Take away 8 X 13 = 104 hours for stat holidays. You are left with 1976 billable hours. $100K / 1976 = about $50 an hour.
Those of us in the consulting game know you do not get much for $50 an hour. That is about 1/4, or less, the rate of one stats guru.
What the hell have they hired?
Ciao,
Posted by Terry from WestVan on 05/10/08 at 02:10 PM ET
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Zimmerman was the President of Nike Golf and CEO of Nike Bauer Hockey...not the CEO of Nike. A small correction...but a correction nonetheless.
Posted by GZ Expat on 05/08/08 at 01:05 AM ET