Post-Game Talk: Game #2 - Vote for the 3 stars

[GCK]

Greig just keeps getting better.

Yes he does but I’d still prefer him in Belleville this year once Norris and Pinto are in the lineup.

 

[NyQuil]

Chychrun
Tkachuk
Sanderson

 

[Tnuoc Alucard]

By Jamie Heap•

Nova Scotia Mi'kmaw author Harold Gloade succinctly describes the origins of the "Three Star Selection" in the following excerpt from his 1991 book:

"In those days Imperial Oil, the major sponsor of Hockey Night in Canada, sold three-star gasoline. Each of their service stations touted the three stars, and at a depot near the Nova Scotian Hotel (in Halifax) they had a huge display of three shooting stars. From this promotion, the three-star selection was instituted on Saturday night broadcasts."

When Foster Hewitt served as "Hockey Night in Canada's" play-by-play commentator, he selected the preceding game's "Three Stars." Each star, as they still do today (be it on "Hockey Night in Canada" or another broadcast), comes out onto the ice to acknowledge the crowd under the glare of a spotlight.

By the 1947, Imperial Oil discontinued its three-star brand of gasoline, though the "Three Star Selection" continued on. Despite the fact that Imperial Oil's sponsorship affiliation with CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada" ended in 1976, the tradition lived on, even when Molson Breweries succeeded Imperial Oil as principal sponsor of the "Three Stars Selection" for the NHL's Game of the Week.

As for Imperial Oil (Esso, Mobil), it signed a multi-year agreement in 2019 with the NHL, becoming its official fuel in the process while being an official partner of Canada's seven NHL franchises (the Calgary Flames, the Edmonton Oilers, the Montreal Canadiens, the Ottawa Senators, the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Vancouver Canucks and the Winnipeg Jets), as well as Hockey Canada.

 

[Xspyrit]

Happy that my bullishness on Greig is starting to look less silly

In the Sens Board Prospects Ranking 2021, I started voting him as #3, he was voted #6 (so I was higher on him than Brannstrom, Boucher and Formenton)

1- Jake Sanderson (95.0%)
2- Shane Pinto (71.2%)
3- Erik Brännström (46.1%)
4- Tyler Boucher (28.6%)
5- Alex Formenton (53.2%)
6- Ridly Greig (43.8%)

In the Sens Board Prospects Ranking 2022, I started voting him as #2, he was voted #3 (so I was higher on him than Pinto)

1- Jake Sanderson 96.6%
2- Shane Pinto 89.9%
3- Ridly Greig 87.3%

My projection for him is a Jaden Schwartz type, career 0.67 PPG

Yes he does but I’d still prefer him in Belleville this year once Norris and Pinto are in the lineup.

Why? He's already one of our best 2-way forwards

 

[GCK]

Happy that my bullishness on Greig is starting to look less silly

In the Sens Board Prospects Ranking 2021, I started voting him as #3, he was voted #6 (so I was higher on him than Brannstrom, Boucher and Formenton)

1- Jake Sanderson (95.0%)
2- Shane Pinto (71.2%)
3- Erik Brännström (46.1%)
4- Tyler Boucher (28.6%)
5- Alex Formenton (53.2%)
6- Ridly Greig (43.8%)

In the Sens Board Prospects Ranking 2022, I started voting him as #2, he was voted #3 (so I was higher on him than Pinto)

1- Jake Sanderson 96.6%
2- Shane Pinto 89.9%
3- Ridly Greig 87.3%

My projection for him is a Jaden Schwartz type, career 0.67 PPG



Why? He's already one of our best 2-way forwards

Not IMO. He needs to get ice time and will be at best a 3rd line winger once Norris and Pinto are back.

 

[Xspyrit]

Not IMO. He needs to get ice time and will be at best a 3rd line winger once Norris and Pinto are back.

It's early, small sample size but (not this is after 3 games, even though this thread was after game #2) :

CF/60 : 4th
CA/60 : 2nd
SF/60 : 4th
SA/60 : 6th
GF/60 : 3rd
GA/60 : 1st
SCF/60 : 4th
SCA/60 : 1st
HDCF/60 : 7th
HDCA/60 : 3rd
xGF/60 : 5th
xGA/60 : 2nd

CF% : 1st
SF% : 3rd
GF% : 1st
SCF% : 1st
HDCF% : 2nd
xGF% : 1st

He did similar things in his 20 games sample last season, as a 20 y/o. He's a Mark Stone type, maybe not as high end but the type of player you want to have. He's a BEAUT

 

[OD99]

Yep! Lots of room to grow, too.

Not comparing him to Stone but Stone didn't play regularly until he was almost 22 1/2 years old.

Greig was showing these skills last year, barely past his 20th bday.