Might be awkward feeling but I dont see why not. People would probably be surprised at how you can work around those things. See plenty of body builders have terrible injuries like torn pecs, biceps etc and miss next to no time training other areas. Luckily there is a million ways to tackle legs so im sure they'll find plenty of stuff he can do. Bulgarian split squats is where its at though after barbell squat, thats definitely king.Can he still do a lot of leg training this summer? Leg press? @stevo61
I personally had a breakthrough with my skinny legs when I did a ton of leg press, and extension and hamstring machines. Squats and deadlifts were a great total body workout but I didn't bulk from them.
Before Blue Jackets winger Kent Johnsonreturned home to Vancouver, B.C. for the offseason, he had a check-up on Thursday with club doctors on his surgically repaired shoulder, which kept him out of the lineup since Feb. 28. “Appointment was great,” Johnson said in a text exchange with The Athletic. “Shoulder is healing great!” Johnson has been able to maintain his off-ice workouts on his legs the whole time but was cleared Thursday to begin some limited upper-body lifting. He expects to be cleared well before the start of training camp in the fall.
there was an eprinkside article a little while ago written from a fantasy hockey lens but it was pretty informative on the differences in kj's usage.Interesting blog post here about Johnson's season and how his underlying numbers suggest that he actually improved this season.
Cliff notes (more details and nuances in the post itself):
- Won some minutes (in terms of G/xG for vs. against), which is an improvement on last year.
- His 5v5 points per 60 minutes was 140th in the league, similar to Keller, M. Tkachuk, J. Hughes. 2nd line quality producer of points at 5v5. He was 335th in 2022-23. Complicated by deployment, of course.
- Improved at every facet of 5v5 play, but didn't generate as much goals on the PP.
- Didn't get much of a chance on the PP, showed potential to be a real PP1 threat.
- Heightened anticipation capabilities through improved scanning and body-reading habits. Starting to show a defensive aspect to his game.
- Author thinks it when mistakes were made, they were very visible, which made Vincent less trustworthy of Johnson's game.
- Played a lot with Sillinger. They don't seem to fit together. He looked best with Voronkov (and Marchenko).
- Improved strength and skating in the off-season should be helpful.
there was an eprinkside article a little while ago written from a fantasy hockey lens but it was pretty informative on the differences in kj's usage.
rookie year kj:
this year kj:
- had transition numbers that were very good (well above average in zone entries carried in, and his entry passing data was among the best in the league alongside panarin, hughes, etc)
- he was also one of five cbj forwards to be above league average in controlled entries per 60 – the others were gaudreau, nyquist, roslovic and jenner
- played with productive linemates (laine, gaudreau, roslovic) but was dragged down a bit by sillinger when they played together
the transition data is the most staggering part of that. brad larsen used kent johnson as the primary entry guy on his line, and under pascal he pretty much wasn't involved in entries at all.
- barely carried the puck on entries (down from 61% to 38%)
- he went from being well above average to being in a cohort of fourth line grinders
- played a TON with sillinger, and was far better away from him
- cbj w/johnson + sillinger: 2.2 gf/60
- cbj w/johnson and no sillinger: 3.3 gf/60 (50% increase!)
i'm not smart enough to know whether this is primarily (or entirely) a product of different systems/usage/coaching, but it sure feels that way. his transition microstat cohort went from jack hughes and artemi panarin to jonah gadjovich and kyle okposo.
I think Sillinger and Voronkov are both 3Cs. But I think Voronkov will be a high performance 3C - really a middle 6 center. I don’t think Sillinger is either.- I would like all of our skilled players to avoid playing with Cole Sillinger, and the easiest way to achieve that would be to put him on a different team.
- I really doubt that Larsen and Vincent were telling guys who was and was not supposed to be the transition guy. KJ just looked unready by my eye.
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If more 100 minutes, Johnson, Gaudreau and Nylander have better with Sillinger HDGF% , Chinakhov and Nylander CF%.
Sillinger was better with Gaudreau if HDGF% and Texier, Chinakhov and Nylander if CF%.
I don't know...
it's less "hey, you carry the puck" and more a byproduct of line structure + team systems.- I really doubt that Larsen and Vincent were telling guys who was and was not supposed to be the transition guy. KJ just looked unready by my eye.
sillinger rookie year | sillinger year 2 | johnson rookie year | johnson year 2 | |
5v5 most common linemates | bjorkstrand voracek chinakhov nyquist domi | johnson chinakhov marchenko robinson bemstrom | roslovic sillinger marchenko laine gaudreau | sillinger bemstrom [huge gap] marchenko voronkov danforth |
Corsi is not ideal for all players. But if GF%/xG:Personally I use either goals results (GF%) or a higher sample size stat like xG% or corsi (CF%). There is no reason to use HDGF% which is mostly random.
Looks like he’s filling out a bit
While that might be the case, there's no reason that he can't be the play driver on his line. None of those guys are what I would call playmakers necessarily. Gaudreau more than likely has the first line duties secured for the immediate future, but there's no reason Johnson can't play that same role on another line.I still see him as a winger. Barring trades or injuries Monahan,Jenner,Fantilli,Sillinger, Lindstrom, Voronkov, look like the C's to me for the foreseeable future. Maybe he becomes one but I'll take the under the way things look right now.
Kid truly loves the game.
@3:50 looks like 93 is him. Blue helmet with a visor and blue gloves.If this is current, I'm glad he appears to be over his shoulder surgery and allowed to go back to playing without restrictions... seems a little quick to me. I thought this was a 6 month recover to take him right up to camp?
I don't think his ability is the question, he put up 40 his rookie season, it's his production and his ability to put on some weight or enough to stay healthy at least.Rather than Center or Wing, I would ask: Kent Johnson AHL or NHL?
Kid truly loves the game.