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The Rangers need this guy to step up
Staple: Rangers need a big Game 4 from Artemi Panarin
Panarin’s fun, cheerful and quick-witted attitude is a blessing in life. Is it a curse in the playoffs?
Just three more seasons remaining.
i dont think any rational person would put him on par with those 4 guys while actually watching the games, and all four of those players ROUTINELY drive the slot and the net to open up space for their team around the offensive ice, and none is nearly as bad on the d side of the redline as panarin. there is more to the game then points per.
cant wait to see this guy gone. he has incredible skill but is infuriating with his pond hockey garbage. kane is skating on 1 hip and he regularly makes more intelligent and timely plays without causing the same level of chaos for his team, tank doesnt have anywhere near panarin's raw skill but will generally make the smart play and drive lanes to open space for teammates. panarin's skill should be a wonderful compliment to the rest of the group but it is always treated as the rest of the group complimenting his game. i am just ready to be done with it.The Rangers need this guy to step up
Staple: Rangers need a big Game 4 from Artemi Panarin
Panarin’s fun, cheerful and quick-witted attitude is a blessing in life. Is it a curse in the playoffs?
Just three more seasons remaining.
you are missing the point, people complain that the passes he makes do NOT need to be as high risk and as prone to turnovers if he wouldnt try to stay to the extreme perimeter all the time and cause his passes to become high risk bc they are longer lateral plays. it is his unwillingness to go into some different areas of the ice to make those passes shorter and less risky. there are absolutely times he is moving to the outside to bait defenders to chase him and run out of position but it becomes habitual and easier to read/game plan for when you see him do it 4-7 consecutive games instead of once every 4 weeks during the ref season. it is a stylistic thing and the way he plays becomes easily defendable when a team sees it with repetition and can actively game plan for it, hence the struggles in the playoffs.*Looks at his stats since he got here...*
Bread is as complete as he needs to be. People bitch about his passes that result in turnovers and would love nothing but to neuter his ability to try and make them. Then, when he doesn't put up the numbers he usually does by being a conservative playmaker, those same fans will bitch again. It's really a no win situation for the top moneymakers here. Before Bread and Zib, Jagr was the last one to put up 90+ points in a season literally decades ago. Lol. His playoff performance is also criticized, but he was the one that stamped the win to send us to the second round.
The bitch-fest karma will eventually catch up to us when players like him won't be around to bear the weight of the point production they give the team. Some say our current young bottom 6 is ready to lead the charge. Lol. We as fans are going to get exactly what we're asking for, I tell you that.
Plus, uh, MacKinnon has a Cup. Kucherov has a Cup.
And most importantly, none of those 4 players experience a drop in production like this in the playoffs. In fact all 4 can put up Conn Smythe worthy performances.
if you are a net negative in the playoffs consistently at 5v5 and eating up over 14% of your team's salary cap (as the 2nd or 3rd highest cap player in the league) I dont think that is excusable. I expect more than a pp specialist at that cost.
Panarin has played pretty well. Zib has been excellent. The points will come.
We could go through a list of 5v5 stats that have been a net negative during the playoffs and post season since his first year here. Plus minus has consistently been considered a useless stat going back to the staal and girardi days but if you want to rely on that whichever. Besides that what other metrics back him being a net positive at 5v5? I'm just curious if I'm missing some.
Will they?
Yeah but it gets late early as Yogi Berra used to say.
