Those kind of exercises are fun and all, but every team in the league can probably compile a similar list. Without more data it's really hard to say if there's a problem or if its just hockey.
2024-2025 Blues Multi-Purpose Thread.
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I think Maroon retired tonight. Last NHL game. And it’s with the Blackhawks. Yuck but funny.
Greatish career for Big Rig, who I called Monster Suck early in the Cup season.
Greatish career for Big Rig, who I called Monster Suck early in the Cup season.
For a fat guy without much talent, he’s had a helluva career.
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Cayden Jackman.
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Cayden Jackman - Stats, Contract, Salary & More
Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Cayden Jackman, 2009-10-25 MO, USA USA. Most recently in the T1EHL 15U with St. Louis AAA Blues 15U. Complete player biography and stats.
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Plays forward(I'd assume he moves to LW for Erie given that they snagged Jake Murray and Tyler Cooper with their first two picks), decent size for a 15 year old(6' 161lbs), seems to have a bit of a goal scoring touch based on his Jr Blues stats(also a bit of a mean streak(to be expected given his lineage) given his PIM tally).
Be interesting to see how he progresses but there's a very good chance that he ends up buried in Erie's lineup.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
The Good - The long view is still extremely positive. We control our own destiny as a potential playoff team in Game 82 of the season. This is incredible compared to where we were under Bannister, and even for a good amount of time under Monty. At the beginning of the season, if we had said to everyone, you've got control of your own destiny to make the playoffs in Game 82, while seeing additional growth from Kyrou, watching Broberg and Holloway blossom into franchise cornerstones, and seeing Bolduc turn into a solid top 9 player, I think everyone would be ecstatic, and rightfully so!
The Bad - there are A LOT of blinking lights on the dashboard right now. The running out of gas narrative is real. Since we opened a can of whoopass on Montreal, the underlying metrics are extremely unfavorable, even while extracting additional wins. Since the Montreal game, we have been 28th in xGF% at 44% ahead of only Boston, Nashville, Chicago, and Dallas (Yes Dallas has played like absolute ass these last couple of weeks, getting 100% bailed out by goaltending). Now, we do have a GF% of 51.6%, which ranks us 15th - Monty's teams have always outperformed their xGF%, but when we were at our best, we were still well over 50% from an xGF% perspective, while then outperforming that number in GF% - we were truly a wagon for a bit there.
Schenn has become a ghost these last 8-9 games, with 1 secondary assist and a 38.6 xGF% since the Montreal game. This is the second time this season he's gone AWOL when we've really needed him. In fact, basically everyone on our team has a bad xGF%, with the exception of Holloway and.....Bolduc, who our coaching staff still seems dead set against playing in the top 6 for a significant period of time. Even with basically every metric screaming that Bolduc is outplaying Neighbors, Monty is still stapling Neighbors to our best players and giving him far more 5v5 time (Almost 2 minutes a game more) then Bolduc. I get that Neighbors is everyone's friend, and he's great in the room, and Schenn loves him, and he plays hard, and blah blah blah - but at some point someone on our coaching staff needs to realize that Bolduc is a superior player and act accordingly.
Now for the Ugly - Our last game is against Utah - who over the same stretch of time is the BEST team in the league at 5v5 xGF% with a sparkling 60.75 - and a GF% that still leaves them in the top 10 at 56.67 - plus this team always seems to torment us. I would almost want to play any other team then Utah - they have played hard down the stretch even though they haven't really been seriously in the playoff picture for the last few weeks. Winning Game 82 is going to be HARD. We are against a team that has been playing extremely well for the last few weeks, standings be damned, while we look to be almost completely out of gas. The fact that for some reason we historically seem to get dumpstered by this team is also of no comfort.
I picked a hell of a week to quit huffing glue.
The Good - The long view is still extremely positive. We control our own destiny as a potential playoff team in Game 82 of the season. This is incredible compared to where we were under Bannister, and even for a good amount of time under Monty. At the beginning of the season, if we had said to everyone, you've got control of your own destiny to make the playoffs in Game 82, while seeing additional growth from Kyrou, watching Broberg and Holloway blossom into franchise cornerstones, and seeing Bolduc turn into a solid top 9 player, I think everyone would be ecstatic, and rightfully so!
The Bad - there are A LOT of blinking lights on the dashboard right now. The running out of gas narrative is real. Since we opened a can of whoopass on Montreal, the underlying metrics are extremely unfavorable, even while extracting additional wins. Since the Montreal game, we have been 28th in xGF% at 44% ahead of only Boston, Nashville, Chicago, and Dallas (Yes Dallas has played like absolute ass these last couple of weeks, getting 100% bailed out by goaltending). Now, we do have a GF% of 51.6%, which ranks us 15th - Monty's teams have always outperformed their xGF%, but when we were at our best, we were still well over 50% from an xGF% perspective, while then outperforming that number in GF% - we were truly a wagon for a bit there.
Schenn has become a ghost these last 8-9 games, with 1 secondary assist and a 38.6 xGF% since the Montreal game. This is the second time this season he's gone AWOL when we've really needed him. In fact, basically everyone on our team has a bad xGF%, with the exception of Holloway and.....Bolduc, who our coaching staff still seems dead set against playing in the top 6 for a significant period of time. Even with basically every metric screaming that Bolduc is outplaying Neighbors, Monty is still stapling Neighbors to our best players and giving him far more 5v5 time (Almost 2 minutes a game more) then Bolduc. I get that Neighbors is everyone's friend, and he's great in the room, and Schenn loves him, and he plays hard, and blah blah blah - but at some point someone on our coaching staff needs to realize that Bolduc is a superior player and act accordingly.
Now for the Ugly - Our last game is against Utah - who over the same stretch of time is the BEST team in the league at 5v5 xGF% with a sparkling 60.75 - and a GF% that still leaves them in the top 10 at 56.67 - plus this team always seems to torment us. I would almost want to play any other team then Utah - they have played hard down the stretch even though they haven't really been seriously in the playoff picture for the last few weeks. Winning Game 82 is going to be HARD. We are against a team that has been playing extremely well for the last few weeks, standings be damned, while we look to be almost completely out of gas. The fact that for some reason we historically seem to get dumpstered by this team is also of no comfort.
I picked a hell of a week to quit huffing glue.
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Well one of you guys needs to email Monty and tell him how to properly evaluate hockey players. Clearly the guy doesn't have a clue.
Bolduc has been solid lately but his last 4 goals were on the PP. He's still got a ways to go to be a better 5-on-5 player than Neighbours.
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Reality Czech
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Yes, the guys who earn millions of dollars to make these decisions and watch the players closely on a daily basis. Not to mention the years of experience. Correct.
But if you think you know better than them, then I applaud your overconfidence.
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Ok, fine. I'll give you numbers, since you want to troll:
Since Monty took over, of players with at least 150 5v5 minutes, Bolduc has the 2nd best xGF% of anyone on the team, the only other player better is Holloway. Neighbors is dead last on our team, at 47.11%. Bolduc is also 2nd best in HDCF% at 55.74, behind only Holloway. Neighbors is only ahead of Walker and Texier at 48.09. Bolduc has played a total of 84 5v5 minutes with Thomas. Neighbors has played 449 minutes. Neighbors has a higher % of offensive zone faceoffs.
Bolduc is clearly the superior 5v5 player compared to Neighbors.
