Various Bugs Found On Popular Hockey Sites

The internet has provided hockey fans with a wealth of information right at their fingertips. However, as with any technology, some of the scripts that help run these sites do sometimes breakdown and spit out wrong information. We here at Blades of Funny did an in-depth analysis and uncovered some serious bugs. You’d think media companies with big budgets behind them would be able to pick up on these sorts of things quickly but hopefully after our exposé hits the fan they will be fixed.

Their script which assembles each team’s roster appears to have malfunctioned when you try to pull up the Calgary Flames. From what we have gathered, the bug seems to place random members of the Toronto Maple Leafs on the page. The time that we checked, we even saw Vesa Toskala listed as one of their goalies. Silly computers.

You would think that the league’s own website would be able to track each player’s game by game log without any errors. However, on Matt Cooke’s log there appears to be a bug that overrides suspensions. We first noticed this when the log showed that Cooke has played in every one of the Penguins games following his March 7th hit on Savard. This is a good example of how computers, while useful tools, can never replace the common sense of the human brain.

When pulling up player stats we saw something that, if true, would be one of the signs of the apocalypse. Under the Vancouver Canucks goalie stats, the TSN page told us that with 3 games left in the season, Andrew Raycroft has a better GAA and SV% than Roberto Luongo. I don’t know what parallel universe this TSN script is getting its stats from but it’s mind-boggling that it would make this sort of mistake.

EPSN’s media monster would be the last one you’d think would make such an egregious error as we found while browsing through their league standings. On that page, we found a team listed as playing in Phoenix. The kicker? ESPN also has them listed as having over 100 points. I mean c’mon now.

Usually we find Cap Geek very reliable when we’re searching for salary cap information. Recently however, we  found some gigantic errors on their website when we looked at the numbers listed under the Edmonton Oilers. Not only do they have the Oilers hugging up against the salary cap but we also saw outrageous multi-year contracts for numerous players — Shawn Horcoff at $5,500,000, Dustin Penner at $4,250,000, Sheldon Souray at $5,400,000, Tom Gilbert at $4,000,000 and Nikolai Khabibulin at $3,750,000. It’s almost like their script assumed that Sather is still running the team and Edmonton is just a slang term for “New York”.

We could not believe that a network that takes its hockey as seriously as the CBC does would be prone to such silly errors that we found when we looked at their Philadelphia Flyers page. Seems like their script believes that the team has goaltenders on their roster.  Sure, one would assume that since they spent to the cap that would include a goalie but this hasn’t been the case for over 10 years now. This is just another example of how computers can’t think outside the box like, say, a Paul Holmgren can.

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