Coming in peace. i wonder what you guys think of your ol' boy #77 now that he's helping Pens. I realize most of you care but just curious. Will he dive off from the ridiculous high he's riding right now? Is he streaky?
It's totally bizarre. Of his 8 goals on the Kings this year, his last 4 were not even shots that beat a goalie...and now he's firing shots past goalies. His shooting % on the Kings was 6.8%, one of the worst for ANY NHL forward with more than 100 shots...then he goes to the Pens and has 9 goals in last 14 games and 24.8% shooting percentage.
Have you EVER seen anyone go from 6.8% to 24.8% No. It's nutts.
I can recall 4 of his 8 goals...one was a great Vilardi deflection, that hit Carters leg and went in...one was a breakaway on Fleury, where Jeff didn't make a great move, but MAF opened his legs unlike I've never seen him on a breakaway and it went thru....1 was a high slot (about 15 feet from goal) deflection that he batted the puck down and it went in....the goalie was moving the wrong way and it went in...skill on the deflection? Sure...but 100% luck to go in. When you bat a puck down from 15 feet out, while facing the shooter, you're really not controlling where the puck will go...I think the other of the 4 was empty net...Jeff had not shot a puck past a goalie since January....and now, he's shooting pucks past
goalies. It's completely different, than his last 3 months here. Not even the same player.