i'm just saying that his size is largest reason he can't defend and at that size you gotta be super special to be plus defender and he ain't it. but if he is only slightly minus defender he would be a valuable player (if he were ever healthy). to date he has been super minus defensively.
I’m no hockey strategy expert, but I thought the zone time issue was a potential down side to the defensive adjustments the leave a player in better position to contest the backdoor stuff.
Good call out on the stats for the season. I was talking about the last game specifically, but I did extrapolate that to the whole season and one game is a very small sample size. I wasn't pinning their struggles on their usage though. They have been bad (Tucker more so than Scandella who has had some bright spots). I was merely saying that Perunovich would make our already poor defense even more poor. Krug may be getting more balance usage and he may be doing better than Tucker/Scandella, but he is still not killing it. He's worst on team in GF%, and worse than Scandella in CF and SCF% as well. We should be sheltering Krug more. Scandella would do better without Tucker on his off-side stappled to him. We aren't bencing Krug. Perunovich for Scandella or Tucker would be even worse and make it harder to shelter Krug like we should.
you may be right, but in that case peru has no value so if he gets claimed on waivers who cares? having him sit in press box bc we are afraid to play him and afraid to lose him seems like bad choice.
I am not impressed at all. His defensive game is lacking, and he does not provide enough offense to justify it. Unlike others, I don't think his defensive game will significantly improve with more playing time. At this point, I think this is what he is. I hope he can be packaged in a trade.
Perunovich missed all of 2020/21 with injury.
You lost me on this. Draft Pedigree?
No, what ruined him was having him put up 5-37-42 in the AHL and never making him focus on the defensive side of his game because he's got offense, look at those assists! and letting him skate into the NHL and giving him a roster spot at nearly every opportunity because of it. And at this point, asking him to figure out things he should have learned a level down is going to be a massive struggle.
This is fiction. You can keep repeating it, but it doesn't make it true.
No, it isn't remotely surprising. There is nothing shocking about the fact that you don't accrue pro games (AHL or NHL) when you are sidelined with injury. Everyone around here knows damn well that he hasn't been able to stay healthy.
Yeah, it is true - and I'll keep repeating it because it's true.
This alone underscores that you're not making the point you think you are.
Given that he got on the roster after 12 AHL games, and after another injury that caused him to miss 2 months because "we had multiple D injuries at once and were all hands on deck trying to win a playoff round," and would have definitely been here for 2022-23 if not injured (unless you want to create a fiction where he's playing in Springfield all season long), and that he's here now for fear of waivers, ... that's looking a whole lot more like "repeatedly gifted an NHL roster spot" than it is "went out, demonstrated the ability to play the position at even a semi-NHL caliber level, earned his position."
Everyone also knows that when you haven't been healthy and you've barely played pro games, maybe the way to acclimate to the pro game - especially when you have serious deficiencies to the defensive side of your game and you're a defenseman - might be to play a bunch of games a level below the NHL and get your shit together there, not play 20 games and put up a bunch of points and call it mission accomplished and then come up to the NHL and get exposed repeatedly by your ignorance to the pace of the NHL game where all your defensive deficiencies are much more certain to get exposed and exposed badly.So what? Is Perunovich that special that someone else was going to claim him on waivers? People freak out over guys going on waivers, like 80% of those guys are so special multiple teams are ready to pounce on the guy for free the moment he becomes available ... and 90% of those guys clear waivers without a problem, and most of the rest later become someone else's waiver fodder.
Idk why you're so impassioned about a guy you know (and we know) will never become great at defending. I'm sure with age he might figure some things out, but defensively he is what he is. Offensively, and this is going to ruffle a lot of feathers, he is perhaps a Dunn level defender and a pp quarterback. Before I get lambasted, yes I'm aware that an archetypal player that is solely good on offense when they play defense is counter-intuitive to the position and should not be the sole focus, HOWEVER, Perunovich is probably the 3rd/4th best LH defenseman we have. That isn't saying a lot about him because the depth there is lacking heavily, but it is what it is.Yeah, it is true - and I'll keep repeating it because it's true.
He was around the team in 2021 - which, fine, there wasn't an AHL season, he was effectively one of the allowable non-roster players. He played 12 games in the AHL at the start of 2021-22 and was 2-18-20, which apparently was all the seasoning he needed to be ready for the NHL. He came up, played 19 games and put up an incredible 6 assists - half on the power play - and people went f***ing gaga over him. Got hurt, had to rehab, got assigned to Springfield, played 5 more games there, then got recalled for the playoffs where he had 4 assists (3 on the power play) as the Blues tried desperately to shelter him at even strength because his defense sucked ass.
He would have absolutely 2022-23 with the Blues if not for the broken shoulder, because Scandella was out with the hip injury. Never mind his defense still sucked ass, he would have had to put in a horrific training camp to not be on the roster despite his already glaring defensive woefulness.
He's never had to [Smith Barney voice] earn [/Smith Barney voice] his NHL roster spot. He's always had one handed to him, either through minimal achievement or circumstance.
This alone underscores that you're not making the point you think you are.
Given that he got on the roster after 12 AHL games, and after another injury that caused him to miss 2 months because "we had multiple D injuries at once and were all hands on deck trying to win a playoff round," and would have definitely been here for 2022-23 if not injured (unless you want to create a fiction where he's playing in Springfield all season long), and that he's here now for fear of waivers, ... that's looking a whole lot more like "repeatedly gifted an NHL roster spot" than it is "went out, demonstrated the ability to play the position at even a semi-NHL caliber level, earned his position."
YMMV.
Unless we're that desperate to win that we'll eschew long-term development, in which case it's a damning indictment of the GM.
So what? Is Perunovich that special that someone else was going to claim him on waivers? People freak out over guys going on waivers, like 80% of those guys are so special multiple teams are ready to pounce on the guy for free the moment he becomes available ... and 90% of those guys clear waivers without a problem, and most of the rest later become someone else's waiver fodder.
Say Perunovich goes on waivers. Anyone who's done their homework has seen what he is; if they still think he's better than someone on their roster, ... OK, good luck. If they didn't do their homework, then they think they can make something out of him - and if (when) he doesn't get his shit together defensively, gets beaten more often than Christina Crawford, and that team realizes shit, he really isn't as good as we thought they're going to waive him as well - and then we claim him (or wait for anyone else who first submitted an unsuccessful claim to claim him and also waive him) and then send him down to Springfield with instructions, get your goddamn shit together defensively.
Seriously, this is like all the angst over I-don't-know-how-many guys who've been waiver-eligible and people get virtually nauseous thinking about losing them on waivers because he's got talent, maybe he'll finally realize it no matter how often they watch him f*** up and underplay that supposed talent. It's even more humorous watching you have gone into detail 4 months and change ago about how bad defensively he was, knowing nothing has changed on that, and here you are today defending keeping him as if we've got some truly valuable, irreplaceable player when in reality he's a (much) lesser version of Andy Delmore.
Good. He needs to go somewhere else and get a fresh start. He can't catch a break here, injury-wise. And we can give his minutes to someone who can put them to better use.
I believe that playoff games count as "NHL games" for the purpose of these calculations, so I'm somewhat sure that his current games played number is 57 instead of 50.
