Player Discussion Charlie Lindgren
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Genesis76
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Despite getting scored 5 goals I love how Lingren is still on his game.
Love this goalie.
Love this goalie.
Lindgren is good, but goalies that catch with their right hand, almost never work out (with the exception of Fuhr, who had like the best offense in history in front of him).
OneSharpMarble
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The winger? Wtf you can't just start playing guys at positions they have never played before.
SI90
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All jokes aside, Galchenyuk is so talented. Is he really that bad at center or just not given enough opportunities?
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For fantasy hockey, if you had to choose between keeping either Lindgren or Greiss, which one would you pick?
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I agree, that was one of the best 5 goals against goalie performances I can recall. We got 80s hockey for one night and it was fun. Obviously, would have been exponentially more fun had we won, but you know what, i'll take a crazy game now and then over a sterile 2-0 win.
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We have needed a centre for like 20 years now. We got a top 3 pick and there was a shiny new blue chip centre right there for the taking. Then the "brain trust" decided to go with Desharnais instead and roll the dice on ruining our best prospect. You can't make this kinda stupidity up because no one would believe it. He wasn't given the opportunity no matter how you look at it but people will just say "hurr duur it's the players fault". I think Galchenyuk had the wrong last name to be the 1st line centre.
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It's sad we want a Quebec born 1st line Center so badly we not only prop up the Desharnais/Danault's of the world, but try to turn a great winger in Drouin into a Center...It's absolutely ridiculous and will never lead to anything resembling success.
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He was given the opportunity, scored 30 when he was. Had a very strong start the following season until an injury. He’s been battling to get back at the position since then while Drouin, a local boy is set there by default regardless of flaws.
Theodore had a good peak, but it couldn't be sustained. Esposito was good too, forgot about him. But realistically, it's twice as hard to succeed, especially in comparison to all the left handed goalies. Majority of players shot left, so ideally, goalie should catch left.
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That's a strange tendency. Is it on account of most people behind right handed and a right handed goalie would tend to hold his stick with his weaker hand? If that was the case, it can't possibly apply anymore given the super lightweight materials being used for sticks now.
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Right handed catchers/goalies are usually left handed people, and vice versa. Because the majority of people are right handed, they end up shooting left and catching with their left. Ideally, if most people shoot left, you'd want your goalie to catch with his life, simple percentage.
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When I played goalie, I'm right handed but also shot right. I assumed that it was the norm. I didn't know that righties tended to shoot left.
So, if you're right handed and you shoot right, there should be no disadvantage, if I read you correctly.
If the above holds, then Lindgren won't be impacted by being a righty:
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I think its due to just not being that common. (goalies catching right hand). Its kind of weird that more don't, all goalies who are right handed shooters should catch right but I think most use the baseball guide where if you throw with your right you catch with your left.
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Won Calder..... Vezina...... Jennings all with Buffalo.........gave Pens their goalie they needed to help win much like Roy to Avs
The reason we traded Sergachev for Drouin is because Drouin is a French Quebecer. But that doesn't mean we're playing him at center because he's french. At least I never thought of it that way. Chucky was drafted to be a center. I think they just don't see him as a center.
I would like to see him given a shot, especially if we're clearly out of the playoffs later in the season. I could see management not even giving him a shot then.
... and I could see Chucky doing so well that he ruins our tank job ... like he almost did the year we drafted Sergachev. Except we have Timmins, who's smarter than the other scouts who drafting ahead of us, so we were still able to get one of the top 3 players in the draft.
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