Back to being ****ing useless. He had his nice little spurt where he had 5 goals in 5 games and has done nothing since.
Finds new ways to blow scoring chances every night.
He's a tweener who doesn't belong in the top 9 on a good team.
I told you guys to not get excited over the 5-10 games he started to look like he was figuring it out. The dude did this every year on the Islanders. Have a short burst or two of productivity, flashing signs of why he was picked top 5 in the first place, then going straight back to sucking. The dude just doesn't have a single skill that is above average at an NHL level, be it shooting, passing, skating, speed, edgework, thinking, hitting, playmaking, anticipating the puck, screening, deflections, puck battles, takeaways, puck control, controlling passes, power play, penalty kill, faceoffs. Nothing. Like if there was an amalgamation of a hockey player with every skill at the bottom quartile mark relative to other NHLers, Ryan Strome would be it. He's, to put it bluntly, not the kind of player teams want.
Draisaitl struggles with Lucic on his line "poor Drai, look who he's playing with". Strome gets Lucic on his LW and gets crapped on. Yeah no agenda at all.
He was sucking donkey genitalia well before he was playing with Lucic.
He is a good support player, you don't run off good support players unless they want too much $. There is nothing wrong with him as a 3rd line player that can step into the top 6 due to injury. He is also young enough that we could see some improvement from him next season.
No he isn't. Good support players do things like play physical to energize the team, win puck battles along the board, get into open positions so the line drivers can feed them for clean shots/easy tap ins, and are capable of catching a ****ing pass. Which one of those does he do?
Bad support players like Strome try to do what a line driver does, but have plays die on their stick due to a lack of talent, a lack of hockey IQ, or in Strome's case. Both. Dude's like a Yakupov with slightly better everything except speed and shot. That screams reclamation project, not a player you can rely on.
If a guy can produce 30 + points every year, kill penalties effectively, and help out on the PP from time to time, I see no problem with 3 mill for him as a 3rd line centre. The main thing is that he needs to get much better on his faceoffs.
Do you really want to bank on Strome as a penalty killer? I mean sure our percentages have been better lately, but I still see a lot of quality power play scoring chances when Strome is out there. The difference is that our goalies have been actually making a save once in a while now. Keep in mind this is Strome's first year penalty killing and just because our PK percentage has been improving doesn't mean he's actually limiting scoring opportunities. There was a point in time when Sam Gagner improved our penalty kill percentage lmfao.
Every Oiler was pretty bad that game. I thought he worked hard, and at least produced a few scoring chances. If you want to point fingers individually, offensive drivers Nuge handled the puck like a grenade all night, and Drai was a giveaway machine.
Oh believe me, I thought Nuge and Drai were dreadful last game. I was merely responding to the poster who thought Strome had a good game, when the guy was clearly a liability.
