I recall Richard, he was called "King Richard" if memory serves.
I remember Mike Brodeur though.
I recall Richard, he was called "King Richard" if memory serves.
I remember Mike Brodeur though.
We’ve scored way more than the other team this year with most players out there. But since he’s such an impactful player, maybe it’s best to us him as the 3C to carry his own line? What do you think, Mr. Haula?
Ask me no questions....Are you holding Dom Luszczyszyn's kid hostage or something?
I find it hard to believe anyone is an elite defensive player when they don’t play PKBut technically, that doesn't mean he plays good defense. Those stats can also show the puck is on his (or his linemates's) stick more and they generate more offense zone time and chances vs. goals against. I mean you can infer either way, but we all know he and his line have the puck in ozone more, so yes it generates less goals against, etc, but not because their defense is good, but more because their offense/pressure is so good.
If they want to infer that is defense, i guess yes, but that is not really touting he defensively is best in league by defensive play.
I'd say Hughes a better forechecker than Bratt... and hounds better...
(Oh and don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Bratt is BAD at defense, I just find that interpretation of that meaning he is best defensive forward very misleading)
He’s a solid 3rd liner. I would rather not staple him to one of the best players in the NHL when he’s totally incapable of scoring a goal at the moment. If he stops being the worst finisher in the NHL, maybe give him another go. We can use his playmaking to get Sharangovich on the 3rd line.I don't mind getting called Mr Haula, since this is the exact same discussion I'm having every year when he isn't producing points even though his lines are.
Well like you see from the chart, you can put him to any line and he will perform. It would be quite a coincidence if he would just again and again end up in situations where other players carry the line. Trust me, the guy is a quality team player that has no problem playing 1st line or 4th line role. He has had good winning records since the juniors, being in frozen four, NEVER missing NHL playoffs even though playing in 7 different teams(!) and "somehow" just ending up to the teams that win the beauty summer league year after year. Beauty league is played with adjusted rules and fewer men, so the chance that he is getting carried by team mates is even less there.
Somebody mentioned that ROW is no longer a metric that's being used. Only regular wins.We’re 4 ahead of the Canes in ROW.
Massive.
I don't know why they called him King other than his first name was Richard, but he wasn't really all that good.I recall Richard, he was called "King Richard" if memory serves.
to be fair he's only like the 4th worst finisher in the entire NHLHe’s a solid 3rd liner. I would rather not staple him to one of the best players in the NHL when he’s totally incapable of scoring a goal at the moment. If he stops being the worst finisher in the NHL, maybe give him another go. We can use his playmaking to get Sharangovich on the 3rd line.
He’s a solid 3rd liner. I would rather not staple him to one of the best players in the NHL when he’s totally incapable of scoring a goal at the moment. If he stops being the worst finisher in the NHL, maybe give him another go. We can use his playmaking to get Sharangovich on the 3rd line.
I’m m going to guess it is because he put up a .918 sv percentage in 1982 playoffs leading an under .500 Canucks team to the Final. For context that regular season only 1 goalie had a sv pct. above .900. It was also the season Gretzky scored 92 goals and the Canucks avoided the Oilers in the playoffs because the even worse Kings upset them in the Miracle on Manchester.I don't know why they called him King other than his first name was Richard, but he wasn't really all that good.
I'm not really quite old enough to have watched him play. I was casually watching hockey as a child when he was still playing. For some reason my mind thinks it can remember him playing for Hartford in the 1988 playoffs, but maybe it's a mirage and I don't actually remember that.
His career numbers look a bit like Cam Ward or Bill Ranford, only without a Conn Smythe and Cup like those two guys had. He did have a pretty fantastic 1982 playoffs and run to the cup finals though. He only played roughly half as many games as those guys did too.
It looks like he was a pretty solid to good goalie early on, but violently fell off a cliff at 30 years old and that probably skews his career performance, which was solid up until then.
He’s a solid 1st liner in that he doesn’t get in Jack’s way and crater the line. With or without Haula, Jack Hughes is all-world. I wouldn’t put that trio together. If I was going to put Jack with Sharangovich or Mercer, I would have Tatar or Palat as the other wing.Yes he's a solid 3rd liner, but he has also proved he can play the 1st line and pp. It's up to Sharangovich-Hughes-Mercer to prove they can provide something better than that, especially since last year they had 46% goals% witch is just unbearable if the plan is to win games.
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Kings have been hot when Copley has been in net for them. He's due to sit however, hope they sit him versus us and not when they play San Jose.
Not be a wet blanket, but what the hell is going on with the poweplay? Aside from the shorties, even when they get settled they're just passing it back and forth at the the top of the zone.
Have they just lost all their confidence? Also, I still don't understand why Bratt and Jack can't gain the zone with control nearly every time they rush.
he gets paid 9m. more than double than severson. so holding him to higher standards should be kind of expected.Hamilton is a bit Seversonesque in that his gaffes are easy to see and visually unappealing. That said he’s not a shutdown guy and at times NJ asks a lot from him defensively which isn’t his best attribute.
I find it hard to believe anyone is an elite defensive player when they don’t play PK
Cue Triumph or whomever saying PK is a separate skill and somehow not indicative of who backchecks well
I find it hard to believe anyone is an elite defensive player when they don’t play PK
Cue Triumph or whomever saying PK is a separate skill and somehow not indicative of who backchecks well
I don't mind getting called Mr Haula, since this is the exact same discussion I'm having every year when he isn't producing points even though his lines are.
Well like you see from the chart, you can put him to any line and he will perform. It would be quite a coincidence if he would just again and again end up in situations where other players carry the line. Trust me, the guy is a quality team player that has no problem playing 1st line or 4th line role. He has had good winning records since the juniors, being in frozen four, NEVER missing NHL playoffs even though playing in 7 different teams(!) and "somehow" just ending up to the teams that win the beauty summer league year after year. Beauty league is played with adjusted rules and fewer men, so the chance that he is getting carried by team mates is even less there.
I can tell from experience. When I wasn’t the guy actually in the box, I would always be on the PK. It’s a different mindset than being positionally sound within the normal back and forth of 5v5.We watched Bobby Holik here for almost a decade. Holik did not kill penalties. He was an elite defensive player.
A player can be bad defensively and good on the PK (Kovalchuk), a player can also be great defensively and yet not used on the PK (Holik). It's a completely different game state. I bet Hughes would be a great penalty killer, he's not put out there because he's better used elsewhere. Likewise with Bratt who was killing penalties at age 19.
He's on a pace for 18 goals and nearly 70 points and if he produces like that, paying even his free agent premium salary is value added to the Devils. But he has to score because that's what he brings; his defense is mostly average when it's not sometimes just downright poor like when defending a 2 on 1.he gets paid 9m. more than double than severson. so holding him to higher standards should be kind of expected.
i said numerous times dougie is overpaid. his transition defense isn't good. if i would rather haver severson at 6m than hamilton for 9m for the remaining term of hamiltons contract.
Sure. And guess whose fault it is he is overpaid? Is it Hamilton’s? Is raging at him to be better defensively than he has ever been warranted? If you sign a guy who is what he is and then that’s what he is and you wanted something else I see that as a you problem. Blame Fitz and the market. Rage at them. I’d agree in principal with complaining Fitz paid the going rate but someone who’s entire body of work is on public display and who lives up to that body of work isn’t at fault if they are overpaid willingly by the team. Now, if you wanted to tell me that being picked first overall requires that you score a subjective amount of points and have some other subjective undefined impact that will change depending upon the circumstances that’s completely justified and reasonable.he gets paid 9m. more than double than severson. so holding him to higher standards should be kind of expected.
i said numerous times dougie is overpaid. his transition defense isn't good. if i would rather haver severson at 6m than hamilton for 9m for the remaining term of hamiltons contract.
he gets paid 9m. more than double than severson. so holding him to higher standards should be kind of expected.
i said numerous times dougie is overpaid. his transition defense isn't good. if i would rather haver severson at 6m than hamilton for 9m for the remaining term of hamiltons contract.