Even Strength Goals

[Peter James Bond]

After 49 games, here are the Kings leaders, in ES Goals this season:

Carter 13 (39 games)
Williams 10
Toffoli 9 (33 games)
Brown 9
King 8
Kopitar 7
Stoll 5
Nolan 5
Martinez 4 (35 games)
Richards 3
Clifford 3
Doughty 3
Voynov 3

Things that kind of jump out here. Toffoli is 2nd in that he averages
an ES Goal every 3.66 games. Toffoli had 0 goals in has last 11 games. At least the last 8 of those were on line 3. So with 9 ES Goals in his first 22 games, he was the teams #1 ES Goal scorer. He then didn't score in 2-3 games and was banished to line 3.

Nolan and Martinez have more ES Goals than Richards...Voynov has 0 PP goals.

The Kings need goals, period. It's their #1 problem, along with the #25 ranked PP. Toffoli should be up here and playing every night in the top 6, period. If he has a few mishaps or not great in his zone, so what? It's not like he was consistently bad, or didn't have effort. About 1/3 of the others do as well...and most of them aren't scoring goals!

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[kingsholygrail]

Should make Kopitar 3rd line center.

 

[KingLB]

After 49 games, here are the Kings leaders, in ES Goals this season:

Carter 13 (39 games)
Williams 10
Toffoli 9 (33 games)
Brown 9
King 8
Kopitar 7
Stoll 5
Nolan 5
Martinez 4 (35 games)
Richards 3
Clifford 3
Doughty 3
Voynov 3

Things that kind of jump out here. Toffoli is 2nd in that he averages
an ES Goal every 3.66 games. Toffoli had 0 goals in has last 11 games. At least the last 8 of those were on line 3. So with 9 ES Goals in his first 22 games, he was the teams #1 ES Goal scorer. He then didn't score in 2-3 games and was banished to line 3.

Nolan and Martinez have more ES Goals than Richards...Voynov has 0 PP goals.

The Kings need goals, period. It's their #1 problem, along with the #25 ranked PP. Toffoli should be up here and playing every night in the top 6, period. If he has a few mishaps or not great in his zone, so what? It's not like he was consistently bad, or didn't have effort. About 1/3 of the others do as well...and most of them aren't scoring goals!

You bring up all this info, then say Toff should be in the top6. All the while ignoring who the 2 people are that are ahead of him. The same to the happen to be keeping him on the third line...

 

[HolyShot*]

If toffoli could play lw then he should be in the top 6. We need to develop someone to play in the top 6 or make a trade. It also needs to be a power forward.

 

[KingKopitar11*]

Thank god we sent down Toffoli, who needs goals anyways :p

 

[Reclamation Project]

No sense burying Toffoli in the bottom 6. He'll be back up soon enough and I'm sure he'll do plenty of damage in the playoffs.