GBU GBU of the season at 20 games. We're 10-9-1 (and we're in WC2!!!) (6-4-0 last 10)

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Figured I'd make this a series. A GBU every 10 games so we can all share our thoughts on how the season is going.


10-9-1 overall

6-4-0 in the last 10

Overall thoughts: We're hanging around and refusing to get knocked out of the playoff race by Thanksgiving. This is an improvement!

I am worried we won't keep it up. Our 5v5 advanced stats have mostly been trending down over the last 10. But our red hot PP has mostly counteracted that.


G:

Bryson - not much to say, he's been quietly effective

Dahlin has been showing up on the score sheet in a good way.

McLeod continues to impress

Tage was great.

B: Tage still hurt, get well soon Giraffe! I'm impressed that we've continued to stack points with Tage out as previous iterations of this team would have folded.

Dahlin - dumb dahlin has still been showing up too often. Dumb penalties. And very Risto like defensive gaffs around the net where he was in position to prevent a goal, but didn't by either not tying up a stick or vacating that position.

U: Cozens and Quinn have continued to struggle. They both still need a lobotomy

I don't miss Samuelsson

Levi has been Awful, Glad he's finally been sent to Roch

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So far -

Good:

- ES scoring out of the blueline with Power and Byram making up a chunk of the team's 5-on-5 creativity.
- Dahlin scoring in general after his injury slowed start.
- McLeod was supposed to be some shrinking violet who would fold at the first sign of contact. His transition skating and keying the early productivity of his own line has been better than I expected.
- Zucker. Yeah, there are some crimes of passion when he has taken some penalties, but the guy has willed them back into games. That line with Greenway kept them going earlier in the season.
- Greenway's physical game and PKing.
- Bryson coming in cold and being effective (again) at defending.
- Luukkonen lately.
- Tuch in the second 10 games has been stacking points.
- Tage before being hurt.
- The PP getting better in the 2nd 10 games.
- Improvement at the dot in general.
- Healthy Benson.

Bad:

- Early PP failures set them back and they continue to flirt with a lack of recovery that makes them easier to stop by stacking the blueline.
- Early goaltending failed them but has gotten better.
- Quinn has looked terrible for all but 1 game.
- Hurt Benson.

Ugly:

- Cozens confidence and puckhandling are at an all-time low.
- While the analytics are good for shots for, Jokiharju continues to be an adventure.
- Samuelsson's passivity took away his effectiveness.
- Levi and the decision to not send Levi down immediately and instead lose Reimer.
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Dahlin's biggest problem is casual play. Watch how many times per game he coasts or dogs it over to a loose puck, arriving an instant before the opponent. Too cool for school I guess. He's still our best d-man by a significant margin, obviously, but I want way more. It's your 7th year in the league, bud. Start playing with the maturity and heady game of the guy advertised as the next Nik Lidstrom.

Zucker has been a revelation.

6K has found his mid-season form early and Levi is where he needs to be.