2016-17 Whipping Boy…fan edition

[Benedict Kovalchuk]

What I'm getting at is that Martin is asked to be a shutdown guy, an energy guy and a puck retriever if played on a scoring line. In areas concerning his role, he excels. But people expect an analytics department to use what they know, so they think Dubas and minions will go look at a HERO chart to figure out if Martin is good. It's the downside of analytics growing popular, people take a small bite out of a big pie and think they ate the whole thing.

Very well said.

For the Islanders it will be the aforementioned Bailey and it will be great.

Jets fans, it will be Brian Strait if he makes the team.

 

[Lame Lambert]

Now that Strait is gone the new (old) whipping boy is Josh Barely.

 

[hagelin1381]

Kunitz, If Kevin Porter (God forbid) finds his way into the lineup then him as well

 

[beardawg]

Pekka Rinne or Mike Ribeiro

 

[Ben Matlock]

Devils: one of the regular d-men not named Greene or Auvitu.

 

[FinnLightning26]

With Carle finally gone, probably Filppula or Paquette.

 

[6God*]

Oilers are awful so plenty of candidates:

Fwd: Eberle, Yakupov
Defense: Larsson (inevitable), Nurse, Reinhart

 

[Nose Face Killah]

Bruins: Jimmy Hayes or Kevan Miller

 

[Machinehead]

Probably Kreider, because I don't consider you a whipping boy if you suck and deserve every bit of it. See: Giarardi, Glass, AV.

 

[Nithoniniel]

Probably Kreider, because I don't consider you a whipping boy if you suck and deserve every bit of it. See: Giarardi, Glass, AV.

Getting called out for being bad, sure.

When I think of whipping boy, I think of someone like Ranger. He got blamed for what happened even when he was on the bench sometimes, and somehow lost us games despite barely ever being on the ice for a goal against (due to puck luck, most likely). That's a whipping boy to me, and I really dislike it.

 

[BernieParent]

Flyer HF fans: Manning, MacDonald
Flyer Facebook/Twitter fans: Mason, Couturier
Flyers media: Mason, Giroux
Coach Hakstol: Raffl, Laughton

 

[CanuckGame39]

It's always Sbisa for canucks fans. They never give the guy a break.

I thought he played great last season.

 

[Club]

Buffalo: Moulson
Toronto: Polak