Jamie Oleksiak: Starting to deliver on his potential

[lordstanley91]

According to the NHL shift logs it was a 3:03 shift. NHL.com - Stats

The Pastrnak penalty was at 8:00 of the second period. The fight was at 10:50 of the second period. That’s 2:50 for the shift not 3:03. The extra 13 seconds was prior to the penalty call I assume but we are splitting hairs.

 

[Kcb12345]

Yeah, figured he'd turn into a bottom pairing dman at most. Don't forget, Habs fans liked Jordie Benn (also traded for a 4th + Pateryn) at first too. Oleksiak will go back to being his usual awful self next season I'm sure. Since we traded him we have been one of the best defensive team' in the league (top 5). Not missing him one bit, and that certainly is no coincidence.

 

[Kcb12345]

For a 4th? ONLY A 4TH? LOL

Trust me, if he wasn't 6'7 he would've been on waivers

 

[Rusty Razor]

Yeah, figured he'd turn into a bottom pairing dman at most. Don't forget, Habs fans liked Jordie Benn (also traded for a 4th + Pateryn) at first too. Oleksiak will go back to being his usual awful self next season I'm sure. Since we traded him we have been one of the best defensive team' in the league (top 5). Not missing him one bit, and that certainly is no coincidence.

Just like Justin "Worst player in the league" Schultz?

 

[Kcb12345]

Just like Justin "Worst player in the league" Schultz?

Schultz was known to be bad defensively. His offensive side was there though. Oleksiak truly has neither, but Pens fans won't notice that until next year or in the playoffs.

 

[DrJustice]

Was at the Bruin-Pens game a week ago and watched this guy get light up like a Christmas Tree, didn't get the hype at all.

But looking at the numbers, he's had a real turnaround since leaving Dallas.

Seems like change of system has masked his faults a lot better than previously.

 

[Rusty Razor]

Schultz was known to be bad defensively. His offensive side was there though. Oleksiak truly has neither, but Pens fans won't notice that until next year or in the playoffs.

The 9 goals and 35 points in a season and a half offensive side? The penguins have been reclaiming defensemen since Matt Niskanen. Oleksiak has been turning it around, even when he had to carry Hunwick who is probably a #3 in the AHL at this point.

 

[Ragernschnapple]

The guy's really come into his own in Pittsburgh, and is looking like what Dallas hoped he'd become. He's producing well (10 points in 34 games), generally playing pretty good defense, and gets in the mix when things get rough (fight with Chara, end-game scrum tonight in Philly).

Very good bottom pair defenseman so far, and maybe capable of more. Pens have had trouble developing defensemen they draft themselves but are for some reason pretty successful rehabbing them the last few years.

What a ringing endorsement for a Defenseman "Starting to deliver on his potential"

 

[Honour Over Glory]

He fought Chara at the end of Chara’s 3-4 minute shift and Chara still won.

That fight was a draw.

But thanks for coming out.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Schultz was known to be bad defensively. His offensive side was there though. Oleksiak truly has neither, but Pens fans won't notice that until next year or in the playoffs.

Except you're incredibly wrong. Not only has he been solid in his own end, he's also rushed up the ice and created some decent scoring chances and has shown that side of his game. You're just flat out wrong. I get it, your team traded another player to us that worked out in our favor, I'd be mad too, I bet you wished Joe Morrow turned into a stud too, but he didn't. We all lose sometimes (or in Dallas' case, every time they trade with us).

 

[VoluntaryDom]

Jamie Elitesiak

He's been great since joining the Pens

 

[Fatty McLardy]

Yeah, figured he'd turn into a bottom pairing dman at most. Don't forget, Habs fans liked Jordie Benn (also traded for a 4th + Pateryn) at first too. Oleksiak will go back to being his usual awful self next season I'm sure. Since we traded him we have been one of the best defensive team' in the league (top 5). Not missing him one bit, and that certainly is no coincidence.

In before Dallas misses the playoffs...

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

That fight was a draw.

But thanks for coming out.

Just as impressive. For Chara. Not Oleksiak.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Oleksiak hasn't met an isolation play that he didn't want to be victimized by in his life...he isn't that smart of a player really. He is big and athletic though and hasn't been bad as a Penguin certainly. Naturally, since he was a Dallas pick (I was their writer here for nine years) and I'm a Pens fan (was in attendance last night and all), I have seen a lot of him...he can be a third pairing guy, but the lowest hanging fruit is just stacking two forwards on either side of his dot line to maintain and he will never, ever, ever get it right...big problems with NZ defense and risk mitigation/management...could be better against sustained attacks...

Oddly, unlike most gargantuan, not-a-genius defensemen, he is surprisingly not mean most of the time...even going back to junior, a lot of his fouls are stick fouls...

Fine acquisition and the price was right...but he's not doing anything thread-worthy in my eyes...

 

[Dr Pepper]

In before Dallas misses the playoffs...

If the Stars miss the playoffs, it sure as hell won't be "because they didn't have Oleksiak".

 

[Fatty McLardy]

If the Stars miss the playoffs, it sure as hell won't be "because they didn't have Oleksiak".

i would also make the same excuse if it were me...

 

[66871]

Not sure why this warrants a thread.

Maybe post your email address so everyone on HFBoards can run their thread ideas by you in advance.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Another Pittsburgh thread, another brigade by insecure Bruins fans. This time to debate the length of a shift by Chara, nonetheless.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Another Pittsburgh thread, another brigade by insecure Bruins fans. This time to debate the length of a shift by Chara, nonetheless.

Spectacular contribution yourself.

 

[tony d]

Nice to see him doing well. Be interesting to see if he can keep it up.

 

[rintinw]

According to the NHL shift logs it was a 3:03 shift. NHL.com - Stats

According to Play By Play it was 3 consecutive shifts with 2 stoppages in between:
1st: 13 seconds - Pastrnak penalty
2nd: 22 seconds - stoppage
3rd: 148 seconds - stoppage and fight

Basically he it was 13 second of play, then a penalty so he stayed as a member of 1st PK unit. Then it was stoppage after 22 seconds of PK and he probably stayed for another shift to change soon. PIT seemed to lock BOS in Dzone for the rest of the PK though and also for some time after that. So it was not that he chose to stay.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Considering he was pitched as someone who doesn't know his ass from hockey, he's been fantastic since about game #3.

No way Cole is so easily dealt without Oleksiak stepping up.

But hey, apparently he barely lost a fight to the only guy in the league bigger than him, so I guess that means he's terrible again now.

 

[oconnor9sean]

He'd still be our 8th defender on the depth chart, and maybe 9th because Heatherington is more sound defensively.

He didn't work out in Ruff's system and didn't work out in Hitch's system. He might be a bottom pairing dman, sure, but those are dime a dozen. By all accounts he's a great teammate, but the Stars are a better hockey team with him off the ice.

 

[harmonica]

Oleksiak has been a great addition to the penguins. He definitely looks like another reclamation steal. Penguins fans also really like what we see.

However he is definitely not main boards thread worthy at this point.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Spectacular contribution yourself.

Sorry, umm... I think it was a 3:22 shift uphill both ways!