August 10, 2006

Hubacek -5



I've always been frusterated by the NHL's poor (public) data collection, presentation and consistency. Things like french score sheets for Montreal home games have almost no benifit, but make processing a huge challenge (publish both if you have to). Adding features midway through a season is also frusterating. But when I was going through 2002-2006 data I bumped into potentially the worst sort of problem on play-by-play of game 266 in the 2002-2003 season. Look here to see the negative shirt number listed in the on ice lists
81 2 05:44 SHOT NSH EV -5 HUBACEK, Snap, 16 ft
and
146 3 11:05 GOAL CHI SH 26 SULLIVAN, A: 13 ZHAMNOV, Snap, 13 ft
CHI: 26 SULLIVAN , 2 MIRONOV , 41 THIBAULT , 13 ZHAMNOV , 8 POAPST

NSH: 1 DUNHAM , -5 HUBACEK , 21 JOHANSSON , 18 HALL , 11 LEGWAND , 4 EATON

First off who is Hubacek? According to hockeydb he hasn't played a game for Nashville in his life.
So then there's: "01-11-02-- Nashville Predators traded Yves Sarault and a conditional draft selection in 2003 to the Philadephia Flyers for Jason Beckett and Petr Hubacek." Secondly, I want his jersey, negative 5!
He had a pretty good game for "not playing" a good shot (16' snap). Although he had a shorthanded goal scored against him (what on earth was this guy doing on the powerplay?)

What I suspect based on the shift charts, was that Haydar was a late scratch (didn't play a single minute) as was replaced with Hubacek (how the scoresheet people couldn't get his name listed properly goes beyond my understanding). This would means Nashville played the game with 7 defenseman.

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