GDT: Game 38: Arizona Coyotes @ Anaheim Ducks | 12/29/18 8:00 p.m. MST | FS-A

[Jakey53]

Garland has more skill than kempe/archibald, you need that too. Lets get to the playoffs first before we worry about physical presence being a problem.

I think physical presence is a problem now. I want a Tkachuk type player, you know, a player with size, grit and pretty good speed, and I will give you all of Cousin, Kempe, Archibald and a couple of others.

 

[Jakey53]

FURocious...I like it.

That would be a good logo.

 

[Hogan20]

There can’t possibly be another team in the league with only three players at greater than half a point per game, right?

That list is only forwards, OEL has 0.55 ppg.

 

[Name Nameless]

From a pure point production standpoint, Kempe is our least effective forward.

This statistics really needs to be based on ice-time, not games played, IMHO.

 

[SniperHF]

This statistics really needs to be based on ice-time, not games played, IMHO.

Basing it on ice time has its uses but I don't like it at a glance. Can give weird outliers sometimes.

In this case though it doesn't and he's still the least productive

Garland is 5th btw.

 

[SniperHF]

More p60 vs per game "fun":

I compared their ranks in each category (minimum TOI applied)

	Per game	Per 60m
CLAYTON.KELLER	1	1
NICK.SCHMALTZ	2	3
ALEX.GALCHENYUK	3	2
DYLAN.STROME	4	5
DEREK.STEPAN	5	9
MICHAEL.GRABNER	6	5
VINNIE.HINOSTROZA	7	7
RICHARD.PANIK	8	11
CONOR.GARLAND	9	6
BRAD.RICHARDSON	10	10
NICK.COUSINS	11	8
CHRISTIAN.FISCHER	12	13
JOSH.ARCHIBALD	13	12
BRENDAN.PERLINI	14	14
LAWSON.CROUSE	15	15
MARIO.KEMPE	16	16

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

They are very similar up and down with a few exceptions. Stepan is the meat shield, that's his job. His points per 60 is going to be worse than his per game. I don't think this is a negative or a positive about Stepan himself. It does say we need a real 1C though which is duh.

Panik does worse, but we all know he's playing up a line than where he should be.

Garland obviously does better but we don't yet know if it will scale.

Cousins also does better based on ice time but I think we know his won't scale.

Everyone else is pretty well bang on, which is why I usually don't worry about it much and think per game is mostly fine.

And then there's Strome

 

[azcanuck]

Garland has more skill than kempe/archibald, you need that too. Lets get to the playoffs first before we worry about physical presence being a problem.

Well it's true a physical presence is more important in the playoffs but you still need one in the regular season.
Coyotes are practically built to play in a women's league (sorry to the women in this forum no disrespect).

 

[azcanuck]

No cup? I think he plays with more cup than most of our team. He wins board battles all the time. He goes to the net, seems to have no fear. He is a very smart and shifty player. Will it last? Who knows.

I need to see more of him. As he relaxes a bit maybe he will learn to actually slow the game down and seem less frantic.
As a call up he's got that desperate look to his game and lacks fear. IT's a good thing if he can keep it up.
I'm just tired of these fast small finesse players the coyotes have. Chyka loves talking about the need for speed in the NHL but he's too focused on that. His analytics don't measure the grit I guess.