I kind of view him similarly to Schenn. And to what Army said, you don't want to name a captain if you aren't 100% sure in them being the captain for the long-haul. If on some level you want Thomas to be the guy to step up or someone else from the younger group, then don't name a captain, and roll with a group of assistants. I don't think it's going to significantly change the dynamic of the group.
i would prefer that we not name a c, go with thomas, schenn, faulk, buchy, and i guess parayko as As. But if we do pick one, i think faulk might be best choice of the bunch.
I've seen him hyped as a 2nd line guy. He's not, nor should he ever be - at least in the NHL. But by definition a "middle 6" guy would imply either a 2nd line or 3rd line player.
He should have been in the minors all season long, learning how to play defense. Given that the organization wasn't going to do that absent him playing shitty - like he did earlier this season - I would have expected him to play harder on offense to somewhat offset his defense. He didn't do that, either. [Nor do I expect him to do that going forward.]
I'm pretty sure I was around when we took him. I know I hated that pick from the moment it was announced. As in, I haven't hated a 1st-round pick of ours like that since we took Jordan Schmaltz (who I wanted us to trade ASAP before the rest of the league caught on to how bad he was). But I seem to recall people being thrilled about it and hyping him as a 2nd-line guy, and as he was doing his thing in the WHL it gave off all the vibes I recall when people got excited about Brett Sonne when he won WHL Player of the Year honors. [And if the archives were still around, you'd find my criticism of him and my criticism of everyone's excitement about him.]
I agree with this, but Schenn gets the pass because as you note, when he plays hard he's going to leave it all on the ice. I'd rather him dial that back a bit and spread that effort across the season.
Obviously none of us are in the locker room to know who's a leader and who's not, but include me on the "Schenn for Not Captain" train because I get the feeling that if he's got the 'C' we'll hear about problems in the locker room in short order.
Sometimes it’s half/no effort and often when he is giving it full effort, I am not sure he knows exactly what to do. It’s hard to tell if he is being lazy or just not confident in what to do. Likely it’s a combo deal.
I think the whole team had the thinking instead of just playing issue this year
I think attention to detail was big issue for us this year, and Kyrou was part of it. But I think Kyrou wants to be really good player and will improve in areas he is lacking. he is part of problem perhaps, but he can and i think will be part of the solution.
I do think some of his decision problem is more his vision (and Thomas sometimes as well), he sees a play developing and other players on the ice with him can't see it, it creates plays where the puck goes to one spot, but the player he expected to be there is somewhere else
I would disagree that it’s the most useless stat ever. It can be useful when put into context, ie. when you also look at the team as a whole, teammates, quality of competition, zone starts etc. For Kyrou, that context paints an ugly picture - so so QoC, heavy O-zone starts and horrible +/- compared to many of his teammates playing for the same team, many of them playing tougher minutes.
The eye test certainly says so, backed up by the +/- thing. I think Kyrou had a -38. That's "bad".
and his expected +/- was -6.4
www.sports-reference.com
if you are scoring a lot of goals from high danger areas and giving up a lot of goals from non high danger areas your expected +/- will be better than your actual +/-, and vice versa
