I disagree being in Florida with a professional NHL team and his childhood idol in Ovechkin. Won’t hurt his development it can teach him how to be a professional hockey player when he goes back to juniors later this season.I hate to say this but Lapierre is wasting development precious time in the stands .
TheNHL is depending on junior hockey development for a lot of high end players.
Lapierre, in his Q team, will be a leader and facing an every day challenge to perform as one.
He has played very little hickey in the last 3 years due o injuries and he needs all the playing he can have.
Right now he is deprived of that a plus his team is deprived of a leader....
We need this guy now for the Titan and obviously Laviolette does not need him this season.
I hate to say this but Lapierre is wasting development precious time in the stands .
TheNHL is depending on junior hockey development for a lot of high end players.
Lapierre, in his Q team, will be a leader and facing an every day challenge to perform as one.
He has played very little hickey in the last 3 years due o injuries and he needs all the playing he can have.
Right now he is deprived of that a plus his team is deprived of a leader....
We need this guy now for the Titan and obviously Laviolette does not need him this season.
Yes they can. It's uncommon, but players can be emergency recalled from juniorsThey cant send him back and call him back up
Disagreed. There's certainly some value to being "exposed" to the locker room, team culture, practice, and trainers... but there's a lot more value in actually playing hockey games. Spending time in the press box or getting 6 minutes a night playing sparse duty in the NHL is only going to go so far. Especially for a player that has missed so much hockey over the past few seasons, getting game action in invaluable. He can be gaining valuable powerplay and top line experience in juniors, playing in offensive situations with the puck on his stick, rather than sitting around as a healthy scratch.I get that the junior team wants him and needs him, but he isnt going to develop more playing junior games if he is already marginally NHL ready. He learns much more about how to be a professional and the rigors and the responsibility and the difference in the speed of the game by actually being on the team
Meanwhile on the other end, Chara and Dillon are in the Sub-Ristolainen zone, bringing up the rear:
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But but Chara carried Jensen last year……
Imagine Caps would’ve traded Carlson for assets and signed Dougie like you suggested. One can dream.
He does need to play, he’s not wrong there, but I’d use these 9 games sparingly….even stretching them out.
He’s learning invaluable things about being a Pro right now.
As a Pietrangelo fantasy owner... I've been asking the same question. He's having a god awful start to the year.What happened to A Pie?
But but Chara carried Jensen last year……
Imagine Caps would’ve traded Carlson for assets and signed Dougie like you suggested. One can dream.
As a Pietrangelo fantasy owner... I've been asking the same question. He's having a god awful start to the year.
The one thing to keep in mind is these metrics are not player-specific, but player-within-a-system-and-team specific. They brought Jensen in because they loved his fancy stats and skating in Detroit, only to find he wasn’t particularly good under TR’s system. Which isn’t surprising, given TR’s system was considered too confusing, and Jensen didn’t benefit from much stability in role or partner during that year and a half. John Carlson, on the other hand, played well in terms of production, but poorly defensively.
Laviolette’s system seems a much more natural fit for guys like Jensen, Orlov and TVR, and that fit means we’re seeing good results for Jensen. I suspect there’s a good chance Dillon and Chara’s stats would be improved if they were still on the Caps, and Jensen’s likely be worse on an underperforming team like Vegas, Winnipeg or Vancouver.
Taking the fancy stats of player X on Team A and supposing they would automatically be mirrored with him playing in Team B doesn’t necessarily work.
Fancy stats are what they are. The Caps dont throw 57 on the ice in critical defensive or offensive situations. They certainly do use Jensen in primary and critical defensive situations. Their numbers may be similar but you cant compare the two.
Umm, where am I comparing them?.
The one thing to keep in mind is these metrics are not player-specific, but player-within-a-system-and-team specific. They brought Jensen in because they loved his fancy stats and skating in Detroit, only to find he wasn’t particularly good under TR’s system. Which isn’t surprising, given TR’s system was considered too confusing, and Jensen didn’t benefit from much stability in role or partner during that year and a half. John Carlson, on the other hand, played well in terms of production, but poorly defensively.
Laviolette’s system seems a much more natural fit for guys like Jensen, Orlov and TVR, and that fit means we’re seeing good results for Jensen. I suspect there’s a good chance Dillon and Chara’s stats would be improved if they were still on the Caps, and Jensen’s likely be worse on an underperforming team like Vegas, Winnipeg or Vancouver.
Taking the fancy stats of player X on Team A and supposing they would automatically be mirrored with him playing in Team B doesn’t necessarily work.
Does that mean that he will replace Lapierre as 4th line centerman?looks like Dowd is back in.
Fancy stats too regularly make little or no recognition of coaching impact, which is highly unfortunate.
Does that mean that he will replace Lapierre as 4th line centerman?