Devils team discussion (news, notes and speculation) - camp edition
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So, he’s dead?
He picked a bad song to play during practice so he's being punished.
JimEIV
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He's been for 120 games and has multiple long stretches with no goals and no impact.
His first year here was injured and only played 49 games...in those 49 games he had a 10 and 18 game stretches of no goals..On a team that had goals coming out of the ears....ok scratched it up to injuries. He missed nearly 3 months cut him a break..seems reasonable.
The following year he starts the season with 15 game goalless streak...So now we're 64 games into his Devil career, with a 10 game, an 18 game and a 15 game goalless streaks...and it only gets worse over the next 56 games he's played...
The problem so often with any matrix is the assumption that the a good or decent number achieved in a limited role equates to someone in a larger more difficult role. The assumption is if Palat got the same opportunity as say Hischier he would've scored about 20 5v5 goals based GF/60... it's nonsense but that is the implementation of the numbers and anyone with eyesight could see that would never be true for a multitude of reasons... Foremost, if a scrub like Palat was getting the same opportunity as a Hischier your team would be in deep shit and those numbers would revert rather quickly.
I don't know, I think my reasoning is a helluva lot more "logical" than believing some dumb matrix is actually telling you anything substantive from a guy who goes months without a goal regularly since he's been a Devil?
