Around the League Thread | November Rain

bandwagonesque

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Which nhl city has the best public transportation to their rink?
I assume most cities have a light rail station right at their rink.
that's an unfortunate name
I'm sure the coaching and front office wherever he plays get some zingers in with each other

"I'd like to take some time today to continue our conversation re: Attard"
 

MarkusNaslund19

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Nobody is claiming that his skating isn’t crap right now. It’s hardly some sort of revelation that those numbers are bad. But those numbers don’t really tell us anything about WHY. Maybe he’s cripplingly hurt? Or maybe the sort of mental funk he’s in right now just means he isn’t competing and maxing himself out right now the way he normally does.

If we had proper data from the first half of the 21-22 season to compare, then we could actually make some judgements about why his skating is bad. But we don’t, that I have seen.
You think a mental funk leads to a guy who can shoot it 97 in games suddenly having a singular high of like 82 mph in a season?

You think him moving from like 90th to below 50th percentile in various skating metrics is because he just doesn't care?

None of that makes any objective sense.

If he was hitting some of the same highs but doing so far less frequently, that would be one thing.

But his metrics are like going from being Sebastian Aho to Anders Lee. It can't JUST be mental.

Now, his mental response to his physical infirmity is clearly making things exponentially worse. But to argue he's not hurt and just doesn't care is just strange to me.
 

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