This is a friendly reminder that Lucic only had one bad half season in his Oilers career
Just to put things into perspective
If you really want to parse last year into halves then this is a more realistic analysis. The first half of last season for Lucic was disappointing and mediocre...
The second half of last season for Lucic was a disaster. There was a 29 game stretch in the second half of last season where Lucic didn't score a goal. The start of Lucic's dry spell was right around the start of that 1-6-1 fiasco after the Christmas break that tanked the Oilers season.
How so? He had 26 points, w/ 20 of them at evens. That is an improvement from the year prior.
Lucic was not the problem the first 2 months of the season...far from it
As much as I hate it, the HF universe seems to love the 'on pace' argument, and Lucic was on pace for his career norm through the first half of last season. Was the back half horrible? Yes. But the fact is he's only had one bad half a season over his career, and it came after he'd already delivered what they signed him to do the season prior. But leave it to this board to try so hard to spin a narritive that he can't play hockey at the NHL level and that he can in no way ever be a useful player ever again.If you really want to parse last year into halves then this is a more realistic analysis. The first half of last season for Lucic was disappointing and mediocre...
The second half of last season for Lucic was a disaster. There was a 29 game stretch in the second half of last season where Lucic didn't score a goal. The start of Lucic's dry spell was right around the start of that 1-6-1 fiasco after the Christmas break that tanked the Oilers season.
Yes. But the fact is he's only had one bad half a season over his career, and it came after he'd already delivered what they signed him to do the season prior. But leave it to this board to try so hard to spin a narritive that he can't play hockey at the NHL level and that he can in no way ever be a useful player ever again.
It's honestly ridiculous how these boards talk about him when all anyone does is blow complete smoke out of their ass.
The only 'fact' presented on these boards is he had one bad half of a season. Nobody acknowledges that before Christmas he was on par to do what he'd done every year over his entire career. I don't care when it happened. You're talking about a 29 year old career 45-55 point player doing the same thing year in and year out with the exception of one bad 40 game stretch in which the entire team was absolutely dogshit outside of McDavid.It wasn't merely a bad half season. It was horrendous. He got paid $425K PER POINT in the second half of last season.
Looch's play was barely NHL level in the last half of the season. On a good team Looch would have been press box'd or sent to the minors.
There is a recency effect too. It's not just that Looch has only had one horrendous half season in his career. It's also that Looch's horrendous half season is the last half season that he played. Don't blame the board for calling out Looch's terrible play in the last half of the season. Facts are facts.
The only 'fact' presented on these boards is he had one bad half of a season. Nobody acknowledges that before Christmas he was on par to do what he'd done every year over his entire career. I don't care when it happened. You're talking about a 29 year old career 45-55 point player doing the same thing year in and year out with the exception of one bad 40 game stretch in which the entire team was absolutely dog**** outside of McDavid.
If you take these boards seriously, that means that this same 29 year old Is now incapable of playing NHL hockey, will never ever be able to return to form,and will never be impactful in this game again and must be given away for free.
You want facts? That's the biggest load of horse**** I've ever seen. Fact.
If we're suddenly defining a player by a 39 game sample size in which he obviously had some huge mental hurdles for the rest of his career, then I don't see a point in even discussing anything.
The team wasn't very good, that much is true...The only 'fact' presented on these boards is he had one bad half of a season. Nobody acknowledges that before Christmas he was on par to do what he'd done every year over his entire career. I don't care when it happened. You're talking about a 29 year old career 45-55 point player doing the same thing year in and year out with the exception of one bad 40 game stretch in which the entire team was absolutely dog**** outside of McDavid.
If you take these boards seriously, that means that this same 29 year old Is now incapable of playing NHL hockey, will never ever be able to return to form,and will never be impactful in this game again and must be given away for free.
You want facts? That's the biggest load of horse**** I've ever seen. Fact.
If we're suddenly defining a player by a 39 game sample size in which he obviously had some huge mental hurdles for the rest of his career, then I don't see a point in even discussing anything.
I haven't been to Kaua'i since I was about 4 years old. I have heard that it is beautiful and I'd like to go there one day. However I have heard that the people there are less friendly. If you go to the Big Island of Hawaii, check out North Kohala, the Hamakua coast, etc. it's much nicer than Kona and south Kohala. Oahu is too crowded for my liking but has a lot of shopping and restaurants.
Tough to really gain much without more detail, IMO.
What's the limit on time between the pass and shot for it to count?
Also I think you have the axes mixed up.
Lucic assisted on 10 shots compared to Drai assisting on 14 for McDavid.
I think it's just going simply by who passed to a guy that took a shot. And I think the axis are right. For each cell, the guy at the top was the passer, the guy to the left was the shooter. So McDavid passed to Lucic before 10 Lucic shots (what a nice guy trying to help poor Lucic out). Lucic passed to McDavid before 5 McDavid shots.
Just look at the counts under McDavid at the top, lots and lots of shots taken by various guys that McDavid passed to. Klef took 32 shots off McDavid passes thanks to our brilliant tactic this year to feed the points endlessly for long range shots (usually with no one near the front of the net).
This is why we need more detail haha.
To me, it says when you look at a box, the horizontal is the passer and the vertical is the shooter.
McDavid led the team by a county mile in shots, so I think it makes more sense if that second from the right column is his shots rather than passes.
This is a friendly reminder that Lucic only had one bad half season in his Oilers career
Just to put things into perspective
Tough to really gain much without more detail, IMO.
What's the limit on time between the pass and shot for it to count?
Also I think you have the axes mixed up.
Lucic assisted on 10 shots compared to Drai assisting on 14 for McDavid.
Lucic had 10 good games as an Oiler to end the 2016/17 season. The other 90% hes varied from meh to poor to outright atrocious
Where does he rank on the meh to atrocious scale for his 17 points in 19 games in Nov/Dec of 16/17 or his 20 points in 26 games to end that season or the 26 points in 36 games to start last season?
You really have to bend the facts to fit that narrative.
It wasn't merely a bad half season. It was horrendous. He got paid $425K PER POINT in the second half of last season.
Looch's play was barely NHL level in the last half of the season. On a good team Looch would have been press box'd or sent to the minors.
There is a recency effect too. It's not just that Looch has only had one horrendous half season in his career. It's also that Looch's horrendous half season is the last half season that he played. Don't blame the board for calling out Looch's terrible play in the last half of the season. Facts are facts.
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As for the other talk about the USA being the "worst place ever"......please!?!?
Like every where in the world it has it's good places and it's not so good places.
I'm 48, I've lived/worked (oil & gas) in all but one continent, been to about 150 different countries and found that they are all the same for the most part.
Sure you are going to have geological, temperature and cultural differences in a lot of them. But for the most part they are filled with people that are trying to carve out a better life for their kids than they had.
If you think the USA is a cesspool, I'd suggest trying a little harder to see the great things it has to offer. Because there are a lot.....
Signed,
A Canadian Living in Houston