Just before Thanksgiving, we asked people to score each Caps player based on their performance relative to expectations. Around the same time I sat down with professional tired dad Ian Oland to unpack those rankings and discuss a Caps team that was struggling at the time. That conversation, plus a more recent chat with Adam “Strings” Stringham of Japers Rink Radio (on which I was just a guest) about Nathan Walker and the Caps’ subsequent improvements, are in the latest episode of RMNB podcast.
Please enjoy, and sorry for not knowing my fables better.
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Discussed in this episode:
- Here’s the Barry Svrluga column from right around Thanksgiving. And here’s the one from a few months earlier.
- Nathan Walker is an Edmonton Oiler. 😞
- Our Twenty Games In series, which might be totally out of date now?
- The dictionary definitions of involvement and participation
- Hockey-reference pages for Jujhar Khaira, who is from Punjab, and Jesse Puljujarvi, who is from Sweden. I’m embarrassed for the mixup.
- You can follow Adam Stringham on Twitter. I was a guest on this week’s episode of Japers Rink Radio, which is episode 69, so please check out that nice chat.
- And here are the results of our ranking exercise. Three groups (RMNB staff, our Patrons, and the general public) scored each player from 1 to 5 based on performance relative to expectation, with 3 meaning “as expected.”
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And thank you to Young Rising Sons for our theme song.
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