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Some like it hot seat
The Flyers opened 3-8-4. The chairs on Broad Street have been warm ever since. We stuck a thermometer in each one.
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The damage, game by game
WinLossOT/SO lossEnd of the 3-8-4 start
The hot seats
Vibes metric · not scienceHeat comes from live stats: scoring, plus/minus and whether his ice time is going up or down. The coach is graded on the standings. The scale runs 0 to 100 and was invented by us, in a parking lot, with ketchup on our hands.
Ice time watch
Live from the game logMinutes per gameOrange = under his average
Overheard on Broad
Reported, attributedHow it's cooked
- Player heat (0-100) = production
50 × (1 − points per game, max 1)+ plus/minus25 × (0.5 − +/- per game)+ ice-time trend25 × (0.5 − 5 × change), where change compares his last five games' TOI with his season average. The last two parts are capped between 0 and 25. - Coach heat =
70 × (1 − points %)+30 × (1 − last-10 points ÷ 20). - Under 35 is room temp, 35-54 simmering, 55-69 hot, 70-84 scorching, 85+ cooked.
- Missed games (Konecny and Tippett both spent time on IR) don't count against anyone. Per-game numbers only use games played.
- This is a vibes metric. It doesn't predict trades or firings. The reporting below each name is the real news; the number is the joke.
- Stats via the NHL's public endpoints through
update.py. Last refresh: .