chirrrs
Registered User
I went to this game with my wife and she brought her friend to watch her first hockey game. Imagine watching what transpired today and that's your first impression of hockey being played at the highest level!
I appreciate your optimism, but we've watched him play this way his entire time in the NHL. Other than a couple of hot streaks, he's just not the kind of guy who seeks goals. He's a safe player by default. It's his nature. He also defers a lot by making the safe pass.I'll die on the hill (probably a slow death) that Miro's offense has been sabotaged by the perfect marriage of events: 1) the current system and 2) being switched to his weakside.
"He scored 26 pts on his weakside in the playoffs-"
Yes, 65 percent of which came against Calgary and Colorado: two teams that had the worst goaltending at the time. Heiskanen's shot quality his rookie year was so absurd, he was expected to score at least 12 goals his rookie year. That's higher than Cale Makar's mark of 8 his rookie year. Since then Miro has been good for two extra goals. 12 vs. 2. That may be a small sample size, but that's a massive dropoff. I think there's a pretty clear correlation (his defense has improved, so you could argue it's a wash but the team needs goals more than defense IMO).