Peat
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- Jun 14, 2016
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What’s their job? If you don’t think it’s to score but only to prevent goals against, then McCann’s line is doing its job...BART isn’t but that’s another matter...if you think they need to contribute offensively, then they are far away as you say...
At minimum - keep the scoreboard guys pretty bored, help build momentum for the other guys; timely goals, working their defence and goalie hard, shielding ours, big hits, ending shifts in their zone, etc.etc. Maybe that just goes down to "Don't die" if taking a hard match up so our top lines can get at their bottom lines. Obviously the aim should be more than minimum though.
Right now they're at a cumulative -3 (2 for Bart, one for McPats) and getting the worst of chances. Going from eyesight memory, I've felt a little more unsafe about their defence than excited about their attack. I can't think of a guy there where I'd think "have faith, he'll score if he keeps getting chances like that".
Breaking down the centres vs line in terms of shot metrics, most common match-up to worst, to see if that maybe explains things (most common 2 are a lot more common than less common)
TB vs Suzuki - Utterly dominant
TB vs Danault - Utterly dominated
TB vs Kotkaniemi - Utterly dominated
TB vs Domi - Utterly dominant
Well TB is matching up. And I don't really understand how there's such a wild difference in terms of what's happening depending on who he's against. Don't know how to predict what happens next with that.
JM vs Kotkaniemi - Very slightly better
JM vs Domi - Very slightly better
JM vs Suzuki - Dominated
JM vs Danault - Utterly Dominated
I think if McCann is going to be going against other bottom 6 lines, the line needs to be doing better. And the time with the top six is going very bad.
Looking at the stats, maybe they're closer than I thought. Or maybe not. But there's a lot of room for improvement there.