Three Stars - Part 3 - Unfair to the Habs?

Okay - maybe I was a bit unfair in presenting the WAAAAHHHH!!! award to the Montreal Canadiens because they named their player the #1 star 6 times in a loss. Let's take a look at some of the surrounding numbers and see if we can get a better measure of who should really earn that distinction.

So what I'm going to show here is:

• The number of times the home media voted their own guy one of the three stars in a home loss.
• The number of home losses for each team.
• The ratio of stars to losses. The higher the ratio, the more the media seemed to be clueless to reality.

If you want to see a departure from reality, check out the Minnesota Wild and the Anaheim Ducks. In nearly half of their home losses, the Ducks had two of the three stars on the night. The Wild were somehow worse - they had two of the three stars in 13 of their 18 home losses!

The four media groups that are the best at saying "Hey - we lost the game!" are shown at the bottom of the chart - they are Pittsburgh, Washington (boy that one hurts to say), the Rangers and Carolina. Carolina is insane about it - their number seemed WAY too small, but I double-checked - they really only awarded their guy one of the three stars in a home loss three times all season.

	Home Stars	Home Losses	Home Ratio
Wild	31	18	1.72
Ducks	30	21	1.43
Flames	19	14	1.36
Bruins	16	12	1.33
Kings	26	23	1.13
Blackhawks	19	17	1.12
Canadiens	19	17	1.12
Coyotes	20	18	1.11
Lightning	31	29	1.07
Oilers	24	23	1.04
Thrashers	24	23	1.04
Canucks	17	17	1.00
Flyers	17	17	1.00
Red Wings	14	14	1.00
Senators	19	19	1.00
Devils	12	13	0.92
Stars	19	21	0.90
Sharks	8	9	0.89
Maple Leafs	22	25	0.88
Panthers	15	19	0.79
Blues	14	18	0.78
Predators	13	17	0.76
Blue Jackets	12	16	0.75
Avalanche	17	23	0.74
Sabres	13	18	0.72
Islanders	15	24	0.63
Penguins	10	16	0.63
Capitals	6	12	0.50
Rangers	6	15	0.40
Hurricanes	3	15	0.20

Based on the further data, and as much as it pains me to do it, I'm going to rescind my WAAAAHHHH!!! Award from the Canadiens (though they are still the Eastern Conference Champs in that regard), and award it to the Minnesota Wild.

Here you go, Minnesota - you deserve it!