Boldy is good in board battles. Not so good at defending in open ice. Talented, much stronger this year, but needs to keep working hard on his shot. Jhansson looks surprisingly good and fast. Hopefully he and Boldy can get some chemistry and start scoring.
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I can't tell if you're talking about Boldy or Zuccarello, who throws away scoring chances to make one more pass on a nightly basis.
He was second on the team with 5 shots on goal, very good shots for the most part. Kap was first with 6.
Made several very good plays at both ends with great hand eye skills... if Zucc had half those skills, we'd have won in regulation, as Zucc had the one opportunity with the goaltender out of position, and it hopped his blade and he fanned on it.
Boldy was excellent all night. I can forgive 1 lone incident of not shooting when he should've when he was playing so well overall for the rest of the game.
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I was there and 12 went to the point in 3rd I think, and glided by and flame D went in for a shot.Uh. What?!? You and I were watching very different games...
Maybe get in his way instead of gliding by.
Ek goes to the net to get a pass. 12 goes to the perimeter so need to pass through 3 defenders.
Hey I’m cheering for him but I’m having a hard time with his 7 million for glide by.
Zucc had at least two grade A shots and passed to a covered cap.
Anyway, back to Klingberg.... he could be a real X factor going forward. If nothing else, he will be great injury insurance should Spurgeon or Dumba go down. He doesn't look like a guy who's legs are gone, at all.
Was there too, and agree. Like both Zucc and Boldy, but they have got to shoot more.
Boldy's shots were from in the slot and in the circle... that's why he had so many high danger chances... that's not hanging in the perimeter.
If he went to the boards on the play you're thinking of, it's because Ek tends to want to cycle more often than not. It's knowing your linemate tendencies. He saw where the defenders were and knows what Ek typically wants to do, so he expected a wrap around the boards.
Ek had that habit because that's what Foligno and Greenway did all the fricking time this year... just stay on the boards and never in the slot.
Boldy constantly gets in close.
I agree about Zucc. My last comment in that post was specifically about Zucc.
I don’t think Boldy particularly stood out in any way. I thought Kaprizov was pretty bad too.
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I didn't watch the game last night so I can't speak to any specific events there, I just know, in general, Zuccarello passing up shots is a much bigger problem than Boldy passing up shots. The only guy on this team that shoots more than Boldy is Kaprizov.
He has a bad shooting percentage this season, you'd like to see that rebound next year. But he's also creating opportunities every night, so it's hard to be that upset with him. And he's doing so creatively. I don't want him to be a dump and chase, go to the net, hope for bounces kind of player like Foligno or Parise, as examples.
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If that were actually true, maybe you'd want Boldy to shoot less and pass more.
Yes, he's had a month and a half of missing the net, he wasn't doing that last night... getting them back on goal more often than not
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He had a bad month or so, but that was out of his norm, and I feel it was because he was playing on an island with only him creating anything. Clearly feeling pressure.
I mentioned last night how much it helped that line to have a second player worth trusting on zone entries, already opening things more, Boldy no longer needing to create by himself anymore, he's got to be feeling a slight ease in pressure, helping his shot accuracy get back to normal.
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You also don't get a shot credited to you unless it hits the net, so if he's second only to Kaprizov in shots, he must be hitting the net sometimes.
I don't think I've ever thought he'd be a regular 40 goal scorer. He's shooting 8.5% this year though, which is below where you'd like to see it. Shot 13.3% last year, however. Should still score 20 goals this year which isn't bad. Still averaging 3.1 shots per game (on net), which is up from 2.4 last season.
Guy's on the world's biggest cold streak. First two months of the season he was shooting 13.1% on 3 shots per game. Since then, 5.1% on 3.25 shots per game.
I'm also not seeing the massive issue here. He doesn't just forget how to shoot these last few months. His shot has never been an issue before. Maybe he's injured, maybe he's just incredibly snakebitten, either way, I'm not really worried about it at this point. Definitely not to the extent of singling him out amongst his peers who also can't score.
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Hockey reference. They have a game log but it doesn't list shot attempts, just ones on goal.
I just added up the SOG since 1/12/23 which is 24 games and he's had 84 shots on goal, so ~3.5 per game.
If he was having a 25% hit-the-net rate during that time, or whatever % would lead you to think that he wasn't hitting that net at a problematic rate, that would mean he was getting 14 shot attempts per game during that time, which doesn't seem too realistic considering Kaprizov is averaging ~7.5 shot attempts per game for the season so far.
2 + 1 tonight for BC. Impressive skill. Ducks got something with this kid.
Stat trick, games, MN. Pick the game you want to see and do a full report. Individual event maps, player name.
Like the last game vs CGY, it shows the locations of Boldy: 3 TK, 1 GV, 5 shots, 4 misses and 1 hit taken. Hover over the spot and it'll give a little more info. I used the all situations display, but it can be filtered for other strengths.
It's not great but it's something.
