Would Tim Kerr be a LW today?

[PistolPete]

By all accounts I've read Tim Kerr was a pure shooter type goal scorer, of the Ovechkin mode.

He played all his career on the RW apparently but I have to wonder, would he have been molded into a LW under today's style?

 

[The Panther]

More likely he'd be the zamboni driver today... Kerr was not what you'd call fleet of foot.

 

[JackSlater]

By all accounts I've read Tim Kerr was a pure shooter type goal scorer, of the Ovechkin mode.

He played all his career on the RW apparently but I have to wonder, would he have been molded into a LW under today's style?

Tim Kerr would be the slowest skater in the league today, also scored most of his goals much closer to the crease than Ovechkin ever has. Very one dimensional. Best case scenario would be a rich man's version of Corey Perry in the current Stanley Cup playoffs.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Probably not. What'd you probably want to do is find a way to get him into the interior in the attack zone, interior on the power play is obvious. But I don't think you can line him up there because then you don't really have a good passing option anywhere else.

Having a slow player like that, not very handsy, you don't want the puck exposed until their ready to shoot. Having him on his strong side, at least he can catch a pass, he can protect, he can chip it in and hope for overlap support or whatever...

 

[PistolPete]

Probably not. What'd you probably want to do is find a way to get him into the interior in the attack zone, interior on the power play is obvious. But I don't think you can line him up there because then you don't really have a good passing option anywhere else.

Having a slow player like that, not very handsy, you don't want the puck exposed until their ready to shoot. Having him on his strong side, at least he can catch a pass, he can protect, he can chip it in and hope for overlap support or whatever...

What do you mean by not handsy?

 

[Michael Farkas]

Skilled in space in a way that would allow him to deceptively maneuver around opponents...

 

[carjackmalone]

Tim Kerr had one of the highest shooting scoring percentage of all time

I believe it would probably be higher if shooting on his off wing

 

[PistolPete]

Tim Kerr had one of the highest shooting scoring percentage of all time

I believe it would probably be higher if shooting on his off wing

That was my thought process but don't know him well enough.

Just knew he had a high S%, parked himself by the net, and was slow.

But am curious if he would have expelled off the left wing better. According to Brisn Propp he had a great release

 

[reckoning]

Kerr was arguably the slowest skater in the league when he played, but he was also arguably the strongest player as well.

In today's game, it might be justifiable to have him in the lineup strictly as a power play specialist. If he parks himself near the net, nobody's moving him

 

[PistolPete]

Kerr was arguably the slowest skater in the league when he played, but he was also arguably the strongest player as well.

In today's game, it might be justifiable to have him in the lineup strictly as a power play specialist. If he parks himself near the net, nobody's moving him

Always makes me curious if a player is very slow relative to his NHL peers, how fast/slow is he relative to the general population of players

 

[Michael Farkas]

Tim Kerr is a particularly interesting/tough situation there...I don't know the AHL in 1985, but I'd assume he'd be slow for that league too. After that, we're still kind of in over-saturation world, the number of pro teams and roster sizes hasn't fully caught up with the talent pool and development methods in the post-sponsorship generation. So there's a ton of players out there with fatal flaws (or near-fatal in this case). But Kerr is a particularly tough skater.

The net-front guys do tend to get a shooting percentage bump because of a) the proximity to the net when they finally do get a shot; b) the nature of deflections; c) the nature of the NHL's inaccurate shot counting methods over the years (period, but...) especially when it comes to rebounds and net-mouth scrambles.

Isn't Craig Simpson the best shooting percentage of all time* (on record)? That was a guy that just drove the net and made a mess. I'd bet that Tomas Holmstrom has a better shooting percentage than Ovechkin, but that's the nature of being able to get off more shots because of how much better of a player you are haha

 

[PistolPete]

Tim Kerr is a particularly interesting/tough situation there...I don't know the AHL in 1985, but I'd assume he'd be slow for that league too. After that, we're still kind of in over-saturation world, the number of pro teams and roster sizes hasn't fully caught up with the talent pool and development methods in the post-sponsorship generation. So there's a ton of players out there with fatal flaws (or near-fatal in this case). But Kerr is a particularly tough skater.

The net-front guys do tend to get a shooting percentage bump because of a) the proximity to the net when they finally do get a shot; b) the nature of deflections; c) the nature of the NHL's inaccurate shot counting methods over the years (period, but...) especially when it comes to rebounds and net-mouth scrambles.

Isn't Craig Simpson the best shooting percentage of all time* (on record)? That was a guy that just drove the net and made a mess. I'd bet that Tomas Holmstrom has a better shooting percentage than Ovechkin, but that's the nature of being able to get off more shots because of how much better of a player you are haha

Shot totals aside, the guy still scored 224 goals in 4 seasons, at a pace of 60 per 82 GP.

Dave Andreychuk and John Ogrodnick were also slow skaters but never reached the same prowess.

 

[The Panther]

Kerr was arguably the slowest skater in the league when he played...

Marsh.

 

[carjackmalone]

Mike Keenan tried to mold Adam Creighton into the next Tim Kerr which only worked out on the power Play

 

[PistolPete]

Marsh.

Who surprisingly enough was a 1st rdp

But he was a solid defensive defenseman and a captain ....but still...a 1st rdp?

Mike Keenan tried to mold Adam Creighton into the next Tim Kerr which only worked out on the power Play

Didn't Ceeighron play centre?

 

[sr edler]

If Pat Maroon can be somewhat of an impact player, hence an impact role player, well into his 30s in today's league, Tim Kerr would probably do fine as well. He would struggle on big ice where everyone would skate circles around him, but in the NHL you can always find a niche.