If he lost shot velocity due to the lingering effects of surgery he wouldn't be at the WC right now, he would be taking a vacation and getting back to work with a physio team trying to get ready for next season.
Atheletes who get this surgery generally have poor performance results the first year they get it.
He just played a full season of hockey. I’m not sure how you jump to the conclusion that he should be doing 24 hour a day physio now that he season’s over.
You also suggested that "adjusting" couldn't be a reason for his lack of success only to suggest that his shot lost some zip. That's a head-scratcher for me, unless you have the stats that measured his shot velocity from one year to the next. Seriously though, is that something that is even tracked? If not, it is a baseless claim to suggest that his shot has dropped several mph because of shoulder surgery.
What I’m saying is that the numbers don’t support your argument that teams adjusted to him. If that were the case he wouldn’t have had the scoring chances he did from where he did. Teams weren’t successful at limiting him from that perspective.
The numbers tell us that from midrange in the ice, his shooting percentage dropped by almost 80 percent. That suggests that something was wrong with his shot.
Now, I can’t say for certain what happened. And I wasn’t sitting there with a radar on his shots. But all of a sudden he can’t score from where he’s had success his whole life… and this happens right after shoulder surgery. Yeah, I think it has something to do with it.
It is very plausible that goalies have the book on him based on his tendencies as a shooter, teams do watch the tape and will make every attempt to shut down a goal scorer. I watched all of the games and yes, his shot totals were high but quite a few of them came from ridiculous angles with a 1 in 50 chance of beating an NHL goalie.
In your previous post, you said teams have adjusted. That doesn’t seem to be the case so now it’s the goalies? Suddenly they have this particular shooter all figured out?
Isn’t it more likely that surgery explains the difference? If goalies had him figured out then why can’t they stop him in close?
I find it really hard to believe that the goalies from 31 different teams suddenly figured out to stop CC from the slot all at once.
If Caufield was 6 feet tall and 200 pounds with the goal-scoring ability he showed in College hockey do you think that he drops to 15th overall?
I think I had misread your original post or it was edited.
I agree, size is why he was drafted so late. I thought you had said size was why his scoring dropped.
And yeah, he went 15th because he was small. He wouldn’t go 15th in a redraft though. He’d be top five for sure. Has the 2nd most goals from that draft and tons of upside. I think he’ll be the 2nd best player in that draft by the time it’s all said and done.
