News Article: Brayden Schenn's niche (statistical analysis of Schenn by position played)

[Appleyard]

http://alongtheboards.com/2016/01/has-brayden-schenn-found-his-niche-with-flyers/

As promised the other day, an article on Schenn. It looks at his production when playing at LW, C and RW from an analytical view to show what we all have seen over the last few years.

Hope you all enjoy. It was a lot of fun to research and write.

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[Embiid]

Thanks..good read.

Schenn is all right......

 

[Beef Invictus]

His niche is retirement.




I'm very sorry but I had to. This was a good read as always.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Also when I clicked on the link to Schenn criticism I fully expected to be taken to a list of my more extravagant posts.

 

[FlyersFan61290]

Nice read, thanks for throwing that all together.

 

[CodyTheHuman]

The stats back the eye test. He looks noticeably better on the right wing.

 

[BillDineen]

Nice read. Schenn seems to show the most chemistry with Couturier. Hopefully, both can keep it up and have less streaky offense.

 

[TCTC]

Good read. This is a noticeably better team when Schenn and Couturier are producing. They're a great duo and hopefully a few bad games down the road won't lead Hakstol to break it up again.

 

[Larry44]

Good read. This is a noticeably better team when Schenn and Couturier are producing. They're a great duo and hopefully a few bad games down the road won't lead Hakstol to break it up again.

The encouraging thing is that with Voracek-Giroux-Simmonds and the productive Couturier-Schenn pairing, we really need a more dynamic LW to go with them, no offense to Raffl who I like, and then add Konecny to the bottom 6 with Laughton, Lindblom, Fazleev and Aube-Kubel and you have the potential for a pretty good group.

 

[Curufinwe]

Great stats.

If Voracek eventually goes back to RW, I think Simmonds could move down to the 3rd line without losing much ice time, if any. And then we would have three lines that could score. Something like:

Raffl-Giroux-Voracek
Read-Couturier-Schenn
Laughton-Weal-Simmonds
VdV-Bellemare-White
Umberger

 

[renberg]

Great stats.

If Voracek eventually goes back to RW, I think Simmonds could move down to the 3rd line without losing much ice time, if any. And then we would have three lines that could score. Something like:

Raffl-Giroux-Voracek
Read-Couturier-Schenn
Laughton-Weal-Simmonds
VdV-Bellemare-White
Umberger

This is the problem with Schenn for me. If Jake belongs on RW (and I d believe that he does), why move Simmonds down to the third line so that a weaker player can be the RW on the second?
Points only mean so much. Other things have to be taken into consideration with Schenn-weak in the corners than other players; lack of speed; not great protecting the puck; etc. All of the things that Hakstol said about his game when he was a healthy scratch a month or so ago.
Right now the team is playing better with Jake as a LW and Schenn as a RW. I'd rather see what the Flyers would look like with Jake back at RW; a competent LW on the first line who came to the Flyers in a trade for Schenn. More teams are showing a need for a second line center which is where Schenn is most comfortable playing. I have to believe that Hexy can pull off such a trade.

 

[OriginJM]

great article

 

[Curufinwe]

This is the problem with Schenn for me. If Jake belongs on RW (and I d believe that he does), why move Simmonds down to the third line so that a weaker player can be the RW on the second?

I don't know if Schenn really is a weaker player on the RW than Simmonds. So long as Simmonds is getting his usual 13 minutes at ES I don't think it matters much who he plays with. But Couturier-Schenn have obvious chemistry.