Low Effort GDT GAME 19 | Place your bets edition | Tue Nov 21 2024, 7PM | TSN5, RDS

Xspyrit

DJ Dorion
Jun 29, 2008
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If Pinto was productive we'd be fine, the guy has been ice cold.

3rd liners need to pace for 30+ pts too

Comparing paces last season vs this year after "the big 4" :

Tarasenko 59 pts vs Norris 59 pts
Pinto 54 pts vs Gaudette 39 pts
Norris 49 pts vs Pinto 25 pts
Joseph 40 pts vs Greig 22 pts
Greig 30 pts vs Amadio or Cousins 18 pts

That's quite the contrast

Reality is the forward group isn't actually that good... we have 5 total 70 point + forward seasons... only 3 forwards have accomplished the feat, and 1 of them most likely never will again.

we have 2 first line forwards, 3 top 6 forwards... we are missing at least 1 top 6 forward, preferably 2... or, 1 more superstar...

I've said it before, are we going to continuously replace 1 or 2 top 6 spots with 35+ year old declining players? Where is the Giroux replacement? Where is the Antoine Vermette or JGP playing 3rd line minutes putting up 40+ points?

Stutzle, Tkachuk and Batherson are absolutely all first liners. Among all forwards who have played at least 50 games since 2022-23, they rank in PPG :

Stutzle : 21st
Tkachuk : 35th
Batherson : 86th

Now the problem is Giroux is 36 y/o and Norris has had a lot of shoulder injury problems. His numbers aren't very good recently as a result

Giroux : 57th
Norris : 153th

Problem is behind them... Pinto just turned 24 y/o and has missed 1 season and a half... he is not producign well right now, same with Greig who is still young. Perron is also 36 y/o... Not much behind that.
 
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DackellDuck

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Sep 20, 2024
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You have to lay part blame on the coaching staff for not grilling it into his head or benching him for floating.

Every spring when he follows his brother around as the Panthers win playoff games, we’re told that he’s “seeing what it takes to win”.

And yet when the season starts… same old same old.
 

Burrowsaurus

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Mar 20, 2013
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Greig playing more physical this game, good to see
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Need as
We now have 38 shots on net
Can’t be samsonov….been trying to tell you guys.
 

Senovision

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May 23, 2011
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Every spring when he follows his brother around as the Panthers win playoff games, we’re told that he’s “seeing what he takes to win”.

And yet when the season starts… same old same old.
That's all of our players on this team Sanderson no show Giroux no show go on through the line up.
Tkachuk and Timmy are the team after that it's a long way down to our next good player
 

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