lot of steaming hot takes from people who don't watch the team in question
why the **** is he being judged by goals anyway? [Mod]
Have you watched any Sharks games this season?Burns is playing twice better. Erik needs to get his game back on track.
yeah he has, sharks fans are telling you this since you obviously don't knowCalm down guy. He has not been the player that can control and dictate the pace of the game like he as done in the past. I think thats reason for discussion
have you watched any recently? he has been lights out for a while now, cleaned up his act from the first few games. maybe the karlsson effect.Have you watched any Sharks games this season?
Burns is an extremely sloppy and lazy defensive player. He seriously has to be one of the worst defensive players among the top 100 defensemen in the NHL. Looks like he doesnt give a **** when he doesnt have the puck and he loses the puck in extremely dangerous situations (offensive blueline, in transition etc) pretty often...
It's almost laughable that some people would've easily traded Heiskanen+ to get him if they were the Stars.
He'll get better though.
It is.+/- is sooooo outdated
Happy with Karlsson so far.
- 9 games into the season
- +/- is an absurd stat. He was -2 in one game because Jones could stop a beach ball, and the other goal was an empty netter.
- He has put up 5 assists.
- He has a strong corsi rating.
- He is still learning to play in the Sharks systems, and the other players are still getting used to playing with him.
I'm just curious, since you seem to advocate corsi, at what point does +/- become relevant? I'm no fan of +/-, but it's essentially the same stat as corsi. The difference is you get a much bigger sample size from corsi. But if you like corsi at some point the +/- must reach a big enough sample size to draw your attention, no?
I mean, if a player plays 1000 games in the NHL with a negative corsi but positive +/-, don't you then say "ok, maybe this player really didn't harm the teams he played for".
Using the Oilers as an example, corsi folks talk about Kris Russell as the worst defenseman in the league but in 150+ games and three seasons with the Oilers he's just a -1. Also, comparing Larsson and Klefbom who's corsi stats are nearly identical over the last three years (Klefbom has the slight edge), Klefbom is a -6 and Larsson is a +33 in that time span.
Again, I'm no advocate for +/-, but it boggles me how often I see the same people act as if corsi is the best stat ever and +/- the worst when in fact, at some level, they are related.
SJ belongs to Burns, Vlasic, Pavelski, and Thornton.
I never understood the trade to begin with, from SJ perspective, you have two number one right handed defenseman in Burns and Karlsson. If one of the two was left handed, then it would make sense.
Still early, but I'm not surprised he's falling short of some fans lofty projections. Karlssons days as a PPG guy are behind him imo. He'll likely be a 50-65pt guy going forward (aka a mistake for whoever signs him @ +11M long term)
I'm not saying he is playing well or anything, but he's typically a slow starter. He doesn't do a lot of summer training, which means that he is kind of slow at the start of the season and then picks it up around the 30 game mark or so. The reason he's not doing that much summer training is that he plays so much during the season, and for that reason and have trouble keeping his weight. He uses the summers to bulk up and rest mostly. I suspect he will start playing better soonish
Karlsson doesn’t want to be there, and the team doesn’t want him there. He likely misses Ottawa, and the Eastern conference. In short, he’s not a good fit. He’s probably regretting not accepting Ottawa’s offer of 11x8M. He’ll never be the same outside of Ottawa, the team catered to him and built their system around him. He traded his comfort which was Ottawa for his Ego, and now the effects are being felt. The smart thing would’ve been to accept the shortcomings of Ottawa and just stay put, and reap the benefits of the team nurturing your skill, rather than moving and learning an entirew new team and system and essentially way of life. SJ belongs to Burns, Vlasic, Pavelski, and Thornton.
I never understood the trade to begin with, from SJ perspective, you have two number one right handed defenseman in Burns and Karlsson. If one of the two was left handed, then it would make sense.
Ottawa is better without him though, you can’t revolve your entire team around one player in today’s NHL. Edmonton might have the best player in the world (McDavid), but they don’t have enough of a good supporting cast of equal elites. Trading Hall is going to forever haunt them. In Hall and McDavid, you have the best duo in the NHL today. Pittsburgh, Chicago, LA, Boston, Washington, and now Toronto, all have more than one superstar on their team and don’t cater to any individual specifically.