Feel like that's the MO of most big, skilled forwards. Malkin (prime and now) and Draisaitl are the exact same way.IMO this is why he's so frustrating. If the effort was ever there on a Lehky sort of level, Rants might be a consistent 60g 135p player. When he gives a F, there are probably less than 5 players more impactful than him. But when he doesn't, he can bleed chances. Kucherov is the same way, just in a different style.
Also he can have 3 of those shifts in a game and get 3 points... while his other 20+ shifts were utter garbage.
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The guy everyone seems to want to replace Mittlestadt with - Crosby - isn't exactly lighting it up lately either. Zero goals in his last 9 games, 2 goals in his last 18.
Players have slumps sometimes, guys.
Players have slumps sometimes, guys.
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Well he did play with absolute garbage players most of the season when everyone was injured, or did you conviniently forget that...
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Tbf @S E P H has finally enlightened us in how much of a locker room cancer Crosby is. So was Crosby ever that good in the first place??
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Love to see a good @henchman21 slapdown of the facts. Mitts isn't the problem. He isn't the solution either right now... But he sure could help by playing the way he did to start the year.
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He looks like he's lost all his confidence. Even on that 2on1 yesterday, he looked like he was hoping the defense would notice him so they would cheat to him as an option, but he didn't look like he actually wanted to be a shooting option. He is showing some positive signs, starting to win some board battles again, making some good set ups. He needs to start shooting again, that opened up a lot of room for him a the start of the season.
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Here's a crazy sta(d)t: Mittelstadt has six shots in his last 13 games. Six.
A couple of those were multi-shot games, too. All told he's gone shotless in 9/13 games. He's got more assists in his past six games (4) than shots on goal (3).
I'm not off the Mittens bandwagon yet. There have been offensive signs of life recently. But the splits are jarring. His last goal was 15 games ago, and since then he's been outscored by Calvin de Haan.
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In the past 6 games he has 9 attempts at net with 4 of them being scoring chances and 1 being high danger. That's still not enough out of his role, but purely looking at shots misses some context.Here's a crazy sta(d)t: Mittelstadt has six shots in his last 13 games. Six.
A couple of those were multi-shot games, too. All told he's gone shotless in 9/13 games. He's got more assists in his past six games (4) than shots on goal (3).
I'm not off the Mittens bandwagon yet. There have been offensive signs of life recently. But the splits are jarring. His last goal was 15 games ago, and since then he's been outscored by Calvin de Haan.
IMO Mitts was actually better last night than a number of previous games. He'll catch hell because he didn't hit anybody, get a shot or a point, but his work on the ice was strong. When he got an assist against Nashville... I think the opposite, he was pretty poor in that game. One of his worst games of the season quite honestly. Utah wasn't as good as last night, but also one of his better games of late.
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I wish ESPN+ kept a vault of games. Or there was a way to download the games before they disappear. I'd love to go back and watch some of those games from last season after Mitts came over.
My mental recollection is that he was really good defensively while driving play and producing with more of our grindy type of wingers. And he picked up doing the exact same at the beginning of this season. And he did appear to tapper off just as reenforcements started to arrive. The thing is, I don't think he's really playing that different so much as he's playing stupid all of sudden. But... with rumors of the flu going around I'm not sure what to make of it. Gassed from the flu will certainly lead to boneheaded decisions but I tend to believe there is a bit more going on here.
It's not what I would call a serious concern at this point, but it is something that Bednar or more likely Petersen needs to be involved in helping him out with.
My mental recollection is that he was really good defensively while driving play and producing with more of our grindy type of wingers. And he picked up doing the exact same at the beginning of this season. And he did appear to tapper off just as reenforcements started to arrive. The thing is, I don't think he's really playing that different so much as he's playing stupid all of sudden. But... with rumors of the flu going around I'm not sure what to make of it. Gassed from the flu will certainly lead to boneheaded decisions but I tend to believe there is a bit more going on here.
It's not what I would call a serious concern at this point, but it is something that Bednar or more likely Petersen needs to be involved in helping him out with.
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The 9 shot attempts are the fourth fewest amongst Colorado players (min: 2GP).
Only Ivan, Smith, and Wagner had fewer; de Haan and Middleton had more. The additional context only hurts, IMO.
We're digging pretty deep if we're looking at Mittelstadt's shot attempts. Prior to this goalless streak, he was averaging more than 2 shots per game.
Like I said, the splits are ugly:
| GP | SOG | iCF | iHDCF | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Drought | 19 | 43 | 67 | 24 |
| Drough | 14 | 7 | 18 | 4 |
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Leads me to believe he’s either playing with an injury or he’s in a mental funk. There aren’t too many other reasons for that significant a change
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Miller and MacK on the same team would be hilarious, hyper competitive, grumpy as an old goat. Would be coming full circle since I really wanted them to get him when Tampa made him available
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Rantanen would be like, I'll send you both to Tuonela if you don't feed me the Perkele-damned puck in the right circle.
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Don't get me wrong, Kakko is most likely the better player, but I just don't get your obsession with him. He's not really good.
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Maybe a reclamation 2.0 without the drug problem, although I'd like our next reclamation be a center or a depth D
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Brother, that's not an obsession with Kakko. It's a desire to boot Wood to the moon lol
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This might be the first time I've brought up Kakko. I don't even like him.
As @dahrougem2 said, my obsession is for Wood to.....
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Avs need a major shake-up. This team is mid at best.
Either coaching change or trade a core player ... looking at you Mikko (sign and trade Mikko to his 14-15m that he wants and the Avs dont want to pay for Brady)
Either coaching change or trade a core player ... looking at you Mikko (sign and trade Mikko to his 14-15m that he wants and the Avs dont want to pay for Brady)
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Wood is clean. When he's on the ice, he leaves everything there. I know folks say he's overpaid...and to be honest he really probably is. But just how far overpaid is he? When he's in the lineup just how far do you find him lacking as a bottom 6 forward? I agree, his hit is huge right now when on the 4th line, but the dude has also unfortunately spent a chunk of time on the 2nd line for us. I would much rather have Lehky and LOC as 3rd line wingers to Wood but Lehky is firmly implanted in our top six for good reason.
I'm simply amongst the minority (heck, I might be alone), but I don't see a need to trade Wood just to get him off the team. I get that it's hard for me to stand here and defend him while injured. The only real valid complaint I feel is that when the Avs are healthy enough to have the kind of depth that would push him solely to the 4th line. At times Wood-Colton-O'Connor were regularly beating other teams 2nd lines just due to sheer effort and hustle.
2.5M is a hell of a lot of money, but I've never questioned Wood's heart or motor. I can agree that he's overpaid, but I feel it's more in the 250K range than the 1.5M range.
