Player Discussion Mike Matheson

Yeah, I'm not sure what is going on with him but he's playing some bad hockey right now. It almost seems mental with some of the effort and decisions he's making.

Thankfully Guhle is back and he won't play as much.

He needs to be moved in the offseason.
Theres nothing going on with him. Hes always this player. He throws shit at the walls and sees what sticks, sometimes it sticks, but he is that.
 
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Matheson has been too casual. This isn’t the first time. It’s happened throughout the season.

I see the reason why he’s not a top d. he’s got the size and skating but too many mistakes.
 
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Matheson is a net positive IMO, but his gaffes are brutal. I like him though, because he does play his heart out and his contract is a steal
The problem is the nonchalant moments from Matheson. When he's focused and engaged, he's definitely a clear positive for this team.

Yesterday was a rare game where he got his shit together after the initial blunder. Usually, on nights where he is nonchalant, he sucks all game and, on nights where he,s focused in the first minutes of the game, he rocks.

Maybe he got his act together because he got scored against immediately and because the PK minutes got him involved in the game?

A focused Matheson is a Matheson I want in my lineup for 4.875M
 
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He went from a 62pt season (28pp pts) to a (projected) 31pt season and (11pp pts). Same TOI.

What happened?
 
What a luxury to be able to play this guy 30 mins and he's not even in our top 2.*

*One of our two best dmen. Meant it as we have depth at the back end, I'm not advocating him to be on the top pair lmao.
 
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Lost his spot to Mr Hutson.....
His role has changed, and his game has a bit too....................good Dman guys, we need him, but for me it seems when he gets overused he makes mistakes.
They are mistakes that shouldn’t happen whether you play 5 mins a game or 35 mins a game.

It’s not a "he had time to find a play but decided to throw it off the boards and it was intercepted"

It’s "inexplicably decided to try and skate around 3 opposing players when he’s the last defenceman back"

It’s just not acceptable and it happens every single game.
 
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He's a very good if not great 2nd pairing dman who has been forced into top pairing role & responsibility his whole time here.

He's criminally underappreciated by big segments of our fan base... Almost as criminal as some of his brain fart back-breaking turnovers lol

He is, although it's a legitimate question whether it's wise to re-sign him through his mid 30's, or it would be better to cash in this offseason.

Our defense is leaky and out of our top 3 of Hutson, Guhle and Matheson the latter seems to be the obvious candidate to improve upon.
 
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He went from a 62pt season (28pp pts) to a (projected) 31pt season and (11pp pts). Same TOI.

What happened?
Luck went out he was incredibly lucky at 4v4, 6v5 and 3v3 last year. Also piggybacked off Nick on the PP.

His 5v5 was always low-end top 4. Savard and Guhle both outproduced him since being with the Habs.
 
His 5v5 production hasnt changed.
I didn't check the numbers. I thought they dropped off a bit too since he doesn't play as much with the 1st line.
So everything but 5v5 in this case.

edit: There was a drop at 5v5 too. P/60 0.58 this year, P/60 last year was 0.93 (mostly caused by 2nd assists dropping).
 
the "problem" with Matheson and our fanbase is that people act like he's getting paid 8-9M a season when he's getting sub 5M, look at what he's doing for what he's getting paid
It's not about what he's getting paid it's his usage. You can be getting paid 5 bucks a year for all I care, if you're thrown out in the most defensive of situations and you try to dipsy doodle through the slot as the D and get the puck taken and it ends up in your net, I'm going to be pissed as a fan.

Hutson did this quite a bit at the beginning of the year and I hated it. He makes ELC. This isn't about money.
 
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I didn't check the numbers. I thought they dropped off a bit too since he doesn't play as much with the 1st line.
So everything but 5v5 in this case.

edit: There was a drop at 5v5 too. P/60 0.58 this year, P/60 last year was 0.93 (mostly caused by 2nd assists dropping).
Yeah to the sum of about 5 points, but yes, his A2s are down to 25%, from 55%. Luck is out.
 

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