Fair is fair. As another mentioned it was his best game as an Oiler last night.
exactly and that's the reason he was acquired. We needed winners in the locker room and on the ice to help get over the first round hump. All of Hollands acquisitions this off. season with the exception of Foegele and Ryan have been excellent for us in the playoffs. Keith, Hyman and Kane are proving their worth in the playoffs, which what is all about right? During the season the vocal toxic negative nellies where all saying when we were doing well that only the playoffs count, now they are doing well in the playoffs they've moved the goalposts. No surprises there of course.
Didn’t make fools of anyone. Epic collapse is your definition. I admit Keith has made some mistakes and still some of these mistakes weren’t even his mistakes. He was blamed for the OT goal against, even though the entire team was out skated and dominated from puck drop out for like 2 straight minutes, then Yamo does a lazy clear right back on Kings stick that gets Keith caught out there for too long and he gets burned by the Kings fastest skater. You probably cheered that moment as a oppurtunity to say “look I’m right”. But that wasn’t on Kieth despite the optics, look at the context.
That’s such BS. Games 1-3 he was our best d man. Games 6-7 he was really good as well. 2 bad games out of 7.
And then played very well again (like most on the team) in games 6 and 7, continuing to make a fool of you. So much for collapsing in round one.
Nonsense.
He had 1 awful game, 1 rough game that jived with the team overall, and 3 great games. Top pairing in 3 wins.
"A VERY rough first round"
He had significant issues in terms of defending the rush and with entry denial which allowed LA to come in and establish the cycle against us which contributed to some of those awful shot differentials (Nurse wasn't much better in this regard). To his credit the majority of LA chances generated during said cycles were perimeter shots but it's still an issue that's been plaguing him the past 3 years. He's actually still not defending entries well vs Calgary but is more than making up for it with offense.
The Jfresh chart is just to quantify the issues with defending the rush and entry prevention, you can see that with your eyes too when your Kempes or Gaudreaus come in through his side uncontested. And yes I already said he's fine at limiting the chances to mostly perimeter shots when the cycle does get established.
Imagine right now if we relied on Nurse to be leading from the back end. Oof. The Keith pick up is turning into a stroke of genius for Holland. Exactly what this group needs.
Nobody said Brendan Smith was better than Roman Josi? It's obviously a sample size thing and results for a specific 4-7 game span is not reflective of overall ability nor even predictive of future results, it just shows performance for that series for that specific skillset and nothing more. Also for the record Josi did have a poor series defensively vs Colorado, doesn't take away from the year he had overall and his teammates owed him a bailout for carrying them into playoffs to begin with, but lets not pretend he didn't get caved in defensively by the likes of Makar and MacKinnon.
You can cherry pick tons of things like that to make good or bad arguments for every player. It’s all noise. Look at the source. JFresh war models and defence rankings are ridiculous and insanely off base. The group of players being portrayed negatively here are clearly superior players. JFresh is a joke.
Its not even measuring a specific skillset though.
I come in peace.
Pretty important caveat to all the ppl crying about the cap hit. Their GM and our GM put in this clause because both anticipated this might be a factor in success.
Cheers, from one of the biggest fans of Keith on these boards. (Picked up the Hawks as my second team after they drafted Kane, sure as hell helped get me thru the Oiler's Decade of Darkness)
I don't think many here would be too upset for that draft pick to become a 2nd
It doesn't show anything tbh. JFresh came out hot to the masses who don't understand analytics as a whole but love to pick low hanging fruit. They are truly the TMZ/Enquirer of stats, and I would not be suprised if Eklund was the head editor.
