Wyatt Johnston, emerging young… playoff choker?

[ijuka]

-18 would be the worst plus/minus of playoffs of all time, in the history of plus-minus being tracked.

That's quite impressive.

 

[Elysian]

Silly thread

 

[Anaheim4ever]

Wyatt Earp + Robertson = 6 goals in the playoffs. That is terrible production from their young guns.

 

[AslanRH]

Can't always light it up when you are on a team with 3 first lines.
Have to share the scoring wealth sometimes.

 

[NVious]

Johnston to Leafs confirmed (his father Mike already played for the team and his uncle Chris covers the team too).

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Absolute scrub

 

[GeeoffBrown]

Johnston to Leafs confirmed (his father Mike already played for the team and his uncle Chris covers the team too).

And his Uncle Jim wrote theme songs for Edge and Christian, who are big Leafs fans

 

[isles55]

Last year he was clutch, this year he’s a choker. Great analysis.

 

[Captain Controversy]

He's the Nail Yakupov of nhl playoffs.

 

[jonlin]

Mike Modano.

(You didn't specify what year)

...and Jere Lehtinen.

 

[MBTendy]

he’s not having a memorable playoffs but to call him an emerging choker is just a bad take when you consider his prior two runs.



The +/- is more on the Stars struggles as a team offensively than on Wyatt.

 

[HabsQC]

Yes yes you should trade him to the canadiens please

 

[Connor McConnor]

How many 21 yo's can actually be relied on in the Playoffs? It's usually guys who have been through adversity for a few years. Bigger issue for the stars is guys like Duchene and Robertson. Also, Harley being portrayed as some stud #1D was always funny to me, Bouchard is much better.

 

[Hank Chinaski]

Silly thread for sure.

I’m also kind of mindf’d that Johnston is only in his D+4 year and just turned 22. For some reason it feels like he has been around longer than that, like I could’ve sworn he was a 2019 pick.

 

[Kimota]

You should look behind the bench instead.

 

[Czechboy]

Wyatt Johnson hat trick incoming tonight after this thread.lol

 

[ORRFForever]

2 assists tonight. Not bad.

 

[NordiquesForeva]

Tough playoff for Johnston, but as a neutral observer I thought he looked fairly dangerous offensively for good stretches of the Edmonton series. Seemed to have some bad luck on some nice chances. Probably not cut out to PK at this point in his career (at least, not deep in the playoffs), and was consistently on the ice for some tough matchups at the centre position.

He's not the fastest skater and seemed to get in trouble when he needed to back-check against an Edmonton rush. Personally I think he'd be a better winger than a centre, as the wing position seems to fit his skillset more.

DeBoer wasn't able to find the right line combinations in the Edmonton series, got outcoached, and the Dallas team as a whole got buried.

Johnston just turned 22, and he's a good one. Dallas needs a new coach, and some turnover of their veteran forwards (Benn, Seguin, Duchene...).

 

[Drew4u]

He was fine defensively last year in the playoffs. I was looking at the on ice stats and last year all of Seguin, Benn, Duchene, and Johnston were net positives easily.

This is what happens sometimes when you make major trades. It throws off the chemistry of the team, some players end up playing worse. Also, Johnston and Duchene got insanely unlucky. Looking at the xGF stats. Also, if you watched Duchene and Seguin were generating chances like crazy in many games but couldnt buy goals.

I don't think the players are overrated just unlucky and I think their production would be much better without the Rantanen trade that ruined everything.

 

[CanadianHockey]

Eh. Normal growing pains I think. Kid struggled against two physical teams in the playoffs. He will figure it out and add a bit more strength as he matures.

 

[Kcb12345]

Tough playoff for Johnston, but as a neutral observer I thought he looked fairly dangerous offensively for good stretches of the Edmonton series. Seemed to have some bad luck on some nice chances. Probably not cut out to PK at this point in his career (at least, not deep in the playoffs), and was consistently on the ice for some tough matchups at the centre position.

He's not the fastest skater and seemed to get in trouble when he needed to back-check against an Edmonton rush. Personally I think he'd be a better winger than a centre, as the wing position seems to fit his skillset more.

DeBoer wasn't able to find the right line combinations in the Edmonton series, got outcoached, and the Dallas team as a whole got buried.

Johnston just turned 22, and he's a good one. Dallas needs a new coach, and some turnover of their veteran forwards (Benn, Seguin, Duchene...).

He's the Stars top defensive center usually along with Hintz..one of the most trusted guys by DeBoer for the past few years. This was a one-off imo and not representative of his overall play in his career at all. He's definitely meant to be a center

Dallas PK was very good throughout the regular season and most of the playoffs (best or 2nd best this season I believe). Just fell off against EDM and a few times against the Jets

 

[SenzZen]

I mean Cody Ceci was on their top pairing and Alex Petrovic was in their lineup. How do you expect Johnston to overcome that as the competition got better and better?

 

[gretzkyoilers]

I think after the Oilers end the series next game we will hear Johnson is playing injured. And if it was regular season he would have been shut down.

Yes just like Hintz....