We Need To Talk About Evan (Rodrigues)

[Big McLargehuge]

Your 2021-22 Mark Donk of the Year. 33 GP 15 G 15 A 30 PTS $1 million cap hit.

Sometimes you just have to bask in the random glory that is a previously serviceable fourth liner finding a completely different gear amidst injuries and covid. Absolutely ridiculous season so far from a guy who made the league minimum as a 27 year-old last season.

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[1989]

No we don't.

 

[1989]

Yes we do.

 

[1989]

Who?

 

[CartographerNo611]

Penguins must really miss Tyler Kennedy, they got his younger brother. Congrats to Evan though, hope he gets a nice pay day next summer. Any player who has to suffer post 2010 Buffalo needs compensation.

 

[BobCole]

I've been watching hockey for 30+ years and I've never seen anything quite like it.

This guy is playing like an all-star. He generates off the rush, he's great in the cycle, he's using his teammates extremely well, he's generating scoring chances out of nowhere, he's driving to the net, he's shooting like a beast. I don't bury my head in fancy stats but apparently he's a stud there, too, which doesn't surprise me at all based on the eye test.

This isn't the Crosby effect, either. The majority of Rodirgues' production has come with him centering his own friggin' line.

I've never seen a guy appear out of nowhere in his late 20s and do this. Will he keep it up? Who knows? This whole thing is so anomalous that I wouldn't want to be the GM that gives him a long-term deal this off-season...

 

[Chips]

Are there official templates for thread names?

 

[HFBS]

He has an odd shaped head. He must need a custom helmet.

 

[DueDiligence]

So have we finished talking yet?

 

[StickShift]

Can't believe Ron Francis passed up on Evan Rodrigues.

 

[Dr Pepper]

Your 2021-22 Mark Donk of the Year. 33 GP 15 G 15 A 30 PTS $1 million cap hit.

Sometimes you just have to bask in the random glory that is a previously serviceable fourth liner finding a completely different gear amidst injuries and covid. Absolutely ridiculous season so far from a guy who made the league minimum as a 27 year-old last season.

......Our what?

Also, hopefully Malkin's back tomorrow.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

Your 2021-22 Mark Donk of the Year. 33 GP 15 G 15 A 30 PTS $1 million cap hit.

Sometimes you just have to bask in the random glory that is a previously serviceable fourth liner finding a completely different gear amidst injuries and covid. Absolutely ridiculous season so far from a guy who made the league minimum as a 27 year-old last season.

Awesome title there, Big Mac.

E-Rod really has been an incredible development so far. I hope that this isn't a flash in the pan, but it's hard to imagine that he was just able to improve almost every single area of his game in 1 offseason.

 

[BobCole]

......Our what?

 

[Sorry]

I've been watching hockey for 30+ years and I've never seen anything quite like it.

This guy is playing like an all-star. He generates off the rush, he's great in the cycle, he's using his teammates extremely well, he's generating scoring chances out of nowhere, he's driving to the net, he's shooting like a beast. I don't bury my head in fancy stats but apparently he's a stud there, too, which doesn't surprise me at all based on the eye test.

This isn't the Crosby effect, either. The majority of Rodirgues' production has come with him centering his own friggin' line.

I've never seen a guy appear out of nowhere in his late 20s and do this. Will he keep it up? Who knows? This whole thing is so anomalous that I wouldn't want to be the GM that gives him a long-term deal this off-season...

The only player that I can think of that is comparable to what ERod is doing is Robert Lang but Langs earlier career was mired in injuries as well as not being used in a scoring role.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

I didn't like the deal that brought him over from Buffalo. Would have rather kept Kahun. Was a big critic of ERod's early on. All that said, he has been incredible. Happy to say he has proved me very wrong.

 

[BobCole]

I didn't like the deal that brought him over from Buffalo. Would have rather kept Kahun. Was a big critic of ERod's early on. All that said, he has been incredible. Happy to say he has proved me very wrong.

Likewise. At the time, the trade was Kahun for Sheary and "some guy." I was never Sheary's biggest fan and I thought Kahun could be a great career-long, versatile depth player. I didn't follow Kahun after he left. The "some guy" in the trade has been better in his last 30 games than any other player in the deal has ever been, and I include Sheary's best stretches - he never looked as good as ERod does right now.

 

[Phion Keneuf]

Leafs legend Evan Rodrigues

 

[SUBdrewgANS]

Likewise. At the time, the trade was Kahun for Sheary and "some guy." I was never Sheary's biggest fan and I thought Kahun could be a great career-long, versatile depth player. I didn't follow Kahun after he left. The "some guy" in the trade has been better in his last 30 games than any other player in the deal has ever been, and I include Sheary's best stretches - he never looked as good as ERod does right now.

Reminds me of the trade for Hossa and "some guy" in 2008

 

[Dr Pepper]

Ah, makes sense.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Yea hard to understand his emergence. Looking like a star out there.

 

[Zen Arcade]

I thought he played well last year too, he just wasn't finishing the chances he was getting.

I doubt what's happening this year is sustainable but I'm happy to ride the wave while it lasts.

 

[OtherThingsILike]

I thought he played well last year too, he just wasn't finishing the chances he was getting.

I doubt what's happening this year is sustainable but I'm happy to ride the wave while it lasts.

It appears to be sustainable, in the sense that there isn't an unsustainably high shooting percentage at work.
It's possible that other teams might start to zone in on him as an important player and this might result in a drop in production. We'll see.

 

[TheGoldenJet]

Penguins must really miss Tyler Kennedy, they got his younger brother. Congrats to Evan though, hope he gets a nice pay day next summer. Any player who has to suffer post 2010 Buffalo needs compensation.

Ah yes, the new Manbearpig.

 

[holy]

That picture makes him look like he’d walk up to you at a book store and start talking about the latest Pokémon while having a Babar backpack on.

Sometimes those guys are the hardest workers though.

 

[Go Wings]

I've been watching hockey for 30+ years and I've never seen anything quite like it.

This guy is playing like an all-star. He generates off the rush, he's great in the cycle, he's using his teammates extremely well, he's generating scoring chances out of nowhere, he's driving to the net, he's shooting like a beast. I don't bury my head in fancy stats but apparently he's a stud there, too, which doesn't surprise me at all based on the eye test.

This isn't the Crosby effect, either. The majority of Rodirgues' production has come with him centering his own friggin' line.

I've never seen a guy appear out of nowhere in his late 20s and do this. Will he keep it up? Who knows? This whole thing is so anomalous that I wouldn't want to be the GM that gives him a long-term deal this off-season...

You have been watching hockey for 30 years and have never seen anything like this, really?

Martin St.Louis
Tim Thomas
Johan Franzen (in the playoffs)

They all established themselves in their late 20s or beyond.

Hell even this year there is a better example of Nazim Kadri who is 5th in the league in points.

Don't get me wrong what Evan is doing pretty cool and doesn't happen open. But to say you have never seen this before...well you might want to start watching other NHL teams instead of just Pittsburgh.