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Mr Positive

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He's been decent this season so far, so knock on wood for it to continue. I haven't noticed him falling behind the play as much. Probably not worth 6 million, but not really a boat anchor on the team either. He's a middle six role player now.
 
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Didn't realize his father's death from a few years ago hit him that hard last year. Is it safe to assume that his dad was maybe someone he turned to when things were tough?

Good to see he went to get help and was open about it.
 
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joestevens29 said:
Didn't realize his father's death from a few years ago hit him that hard last year. Is it safe to assume that his dad was maybe someone he turned to when things were tough?

Good to see he went to get help and was open about it.
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I didn't hear that. Is there an article or video of him talking about it? Good on him for going for help indeed.
 
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Bryanbryoil said:
I didn't hear that. Is there an article or video of him talking about it? Good on him for going for help indeed.
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Principe brought it up in the intermission. No actual interview with Lucic, but Gene explaining what Lucic went through.

I suspect at some point they'll have an interview with Lucic
 
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joestevens29 said:
Principe brought it up in the intermission. No actual interview with Lucic, but Gene explaining what Lucic went through.

I suspect at some point they'll have an interview with Lucic
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Which game? I have gamecenter so I can probably go back and watch it.
 

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Through 4 games the Oilers have been outshot 31-12, outscored 4-1 and outchanced 27-13 with Lucic on the ice at 5v5. He can start bouncing back any time.
 
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Little Fury said:
Through 4 games the Oilers have been outshot 31-12, outscored 4-1 and outchanced 27-13 with Lucic on the ice at 5v5. He can start bouncing back any time.
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You know there are other players on the ice at the same time right? Where is your condemnation of Leon who has been culpable on a few of those GA directly?
Put this in context, who else is on the ice at the same time? How many of these events occur with and without Benning, for example? He's an obvious black hole of anything good so far.
 
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What a brutal call.
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Clean hit.

Oh, the player might be feeling it a bit..

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Would now be a terrible time for a borderline terrible call? Yes. Is he an Oiler? yes.

*arm up*
 
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joestevens29 said:
Didn't realize his father's death from a few years ago hit him that hard last year. Is it safe to assume that his dad was maybe someone he turned to when things were tough?

Good to see he went to get help and was open about it.
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I didn't even know his father had died nevermind committed suicide. His struggles last year make sense now.
 
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Little Fury said:
So who is dragging that line down in your opinion?
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Pretty obvious after last night's game. JP should have been on the 2nd from season start. When JP was playing with Drai, everything changed. Lucic continued his same play on both lines (2/3) and still looked good.

I think most would see that...unless of course any of us have a bias against certain players. Then we tend to be blinded and have preconceived notions of how they'll be playing and see only the missed opportunities.
 
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oobga said:
Clean hit.

Oh, the player might be feeling it a bit..

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Would now be a terrible time for a borderline terrible call? Yes. Is he an Oiler? yes.

*arm up*
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Yeah, no idea how that was a penalty. He even had to 'glide around Little just to make the hit but, no, that was charging..wtf?
 

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McChiaricolson said:
You know there are other players on the ice at the same time right? Where is your condemnation of Leon who has been culpable on a few of those GA directly?
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Leon has been terrible too.

Put this in context, who else is on the ice at the same time? How many of these events occur with and without Benning, for example? He's an obvious black hole of anything good so far.
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Lucic's played almost 52 minutes 5v5, and about 16 with Benning. When on the ice together, they've been outshot 11-9 and outscored 2-1. So yeah, that's bad. But Benning's numbers away from Lucic are much better, as is the case with most of the team.

Benning shots for % with Lucic: 15.38. Without: 55.56. Lucic without Benning: 36.84.
 
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Little Fury said:
Leon has been terrible too.
Lucic's played almost 52 minutes 5v5, and about 16 with Benning. When on the ice together, they've been outshot 11-9 and outscored 2-1. So yeah, that's bad. But Benning's numbers away from Lucic are much better, as is the case with most of the team.
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and which forwards is Benning playing the most with?
 
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Little Fury said:
Lucic, Drai and Yamomoto.

Interested to see how you're going to spin this as Benning's fault when everyone who plays with Lucic sees their numbers dip.
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Look at the zone starts though. ~33% with the 2nd line. For whatever reason overall McLellan has been burying Drai's line in their own zone for starts. McDavid is getting way more offensive starts than last year. McLellan is all in that McDavid is the only hope it seems, hehe.

Bad D and bad forward help has definitely killed a lot of shifts for the 2nd line this year.
 
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I don't think 4 games in is enough data to make any determination on much of anything, when I look at it. 52 mins is an extremely small sample size.

We can agree to disagree for now, as I believe there is more to the story. I am pleased with his start.
 
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