I'm on the same page. He frequently gets lost in his own zone and only brings it on the forecheck occasionally (until recently).
I hope he keeps this level of play up, but I'm not completely sold yet.
Kind of hard to sustain much of a forecheck while playing with the worst linemates this team can give him who rarely manage to sustain any offensive zone pressure.
That's not on Pak. The moment he gets better linemates you see how much of a sustained forecheck he can bring. You also see the offense he can bring.
Pak, as I just mentioned has also scored 5 goals(counting the one that was oddly given to Nuge) in 1/3 of the minutes that one of our topline Centers, (nuge) has and who as only scored 7 goals. Just to let that sink in for a moment.
Pak also has 88hits on 9minutes/GP. An astounding stat from a player that has played spectacularly hard in his shifts.
Only forward on the club that has more hits is Hendricks.
To put Paks hits total into perspective Darnell Nurse, who himself is a hitting machine has only 4 more hits than Pak in
triple the toi. That should astound anybody what kind of hitting rate Pak has put out.
There might not be a player in the league that has thrown more hits per minute played than Pak.
It should be impossible for people to dislike Pakarinen. But evey GDT several posters do. I don't know what they been watching.