jbeck5
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Pftt you use that thing?!
And ya yar.
Yeah, straight muffins. He is not threatening at all with his shot.
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Pftt you use that thing?!
And ya yar.
Yeah, straight muffins. He is not threatening at all with his shot.
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jbeck5
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Look, you can live in a world where Chabots shot is feared from the opposition in your head. That just ain't this world.
Redden had a good shot. Chara had a good shot. Gonchar had a good shot. Karlsson had a good shot. Chabot does not. He is not like the other offensive D we had in our history.
For example, tkachuk was criticized that he could only score from 5 ft out...but he improved his shot quite a bit over the years to the point he's a threat to beat a goalie clean from 30 ft out.
Chabot doesn't have that ability for example. If Chabot has the puck at the point with some room to skate in and rifle it on net, I'm never expecting a goal. He doesn't really beat goalies clean unless he's right up in the slot or heavy screening...but that's not what I call clean.
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Hamonic has the best shot on the team out of the dmen. I'm not even joking. He just doesn't have the other offensive skills that Chabot and Sanderson do.
I think having a true scoring threat from the blueline would make this team far better.
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Ya Hammer has the best and hardest shot.
NHL edge has him at 93rd percentile for D on shot speed.
From an eye test, he seemed to get the puck on net quite a bit last season. When he's back in the line up, I hope he can get the puck on net a bit more instead of missing wide every single time.
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So, since becoming a regular, he is tied for the 19th best goals per game among D. Facts don't care about your feelings, reality is he scored goals at a higher rate than nearly 400 other Dmen that played 40 or more games during that stretch. Last year specifically, he was tied for 11th in goals per game.
So when you say his shot is too easily blocked and is a muffin, I can point to the data that show his shots do get through, and that he does shoot harder than a lot of other top offensive D, and I can be comfortable knowing that the world I live in is backed up by evidence.
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19th is good, but it's not exactly a player that would be feared. I'd imagine that means there are 18 other teams out there with a better shooting threat from the point than Chabot, and if Ottawa wants to be a playoff team, then 19th might not be good enough.
Which again, it's a good thing we have Yakemchuk, because I believe he could be an elite scoring threat in the league.
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Sure, he doesn't have a wicked shot, nobody claimed he did, that was just the strawman thrown up to distract from the original claim that he had a muffin that was too easily blocked and never got through, and that there was no weapon from the point. I mentioned he is above average in his average velocity (84th percentile), his hardest shot was in the top 86th percentile, his % of shots blocked was in the top quarter and his shot through rate was better than a number of top D, then showed his goals per game are up there as well, so whatever he is doing seems to be working alright even if he isn't Shea Weber out there.
As for 18 other teams, well that list included Weber, so probably 17, and that was career, last year he was 11th, which seems perfectly fine. The reality is that the difference between 19th and 6th was 3 or 4 goals per 82 games, so not really the difference between good enough to be contending for the playoffs or not.
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Most of the core are mental midgets. If they don't score the first goal, it all goes to hell. They can't pass, revert back to their old habits, make dumb decisions, etc. Even when they play well at the beginning of the game, they rarely score on their chances as they either take low percentage shots, overpass, miss the net or turn the puck over. The few players that don't fall apart try to do too much which never works out.
Doesn't explain some of the low IQ decisions he's been making.
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One thing I noticed when the team was down, even when making a good push in the 3rd.
They are constantly trying to make the play that will change the game. Instead of linking good plays together, they want to make the one home run play.
On the late powerplay, Tkachuk was standing still on the half wall, looking for options. After a couple moves he ripped it through the seam cross ice, but it was too hard a pass to coral, and the play died.
Instead of moving the puck quickly, stringing together passes and breaking down the defense, they tried to break down a set defense with one play. I think it optimized some of the issues that plague this group, especially when they are pressing to make a comeback, or are feeling pressure in general.
The trust in the team game is not there. They revert to a group of individuals trying to do it themselves.
I think this is something that has developed over the years of losing hockey, where the top guys had no depth to support them, and were sent out to try and win games on their own.
Good teams have enormous trust in their group. They know everyone is going to do their job. The Sens don't have that yet. If they can't develop it, they will never get anywhere as a team.
They are constantly trying to make the play that will change the game. Instead of linking good plays together, they want to make the one home run play.
On the late powerplay, Tkachuk was standing still on the half wall, looking for options. After a couple moves he ripped it through the seam cross ice, but it was too hard a pass to coral, and the play died.
Instead of moving the puck quickly, stringing together passes and breaking down the defense, they tried to break down a set defense with one play. I think it optimized some of the issues that plague this group, especially when they are pressing to make a comeback, or are feeling pressure in general.
The trust in the team game is not there. They revert to a group of individuals trying to do it themselves.
I think this is something that has developed over the years of losing hockey, where the top guys had no depth to support them, and were sent out to try and win games on their own.
Good teams have enormous trust in their group. They know everyone is going to do their job. The Sens don't have that yet. If they can't develop it, they will never get anywhere as a team.
