Is John Marino for real?

[Malkinstheman]

Lowest xGA/60 among all defenders in the league.

Bruh, this cant be real. Thats so crazy.

 

[Tom Hanks]

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Bruh, this cant be real. Thats so crazy.

yeah it’s actually wild. JJ being #8 is a mindf*** too.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

Marino plays the way Devils fans advertised Paul Martin to be

 

[Tom Hanks]

yeah it’s actually wild. JJ being #8 is a mind**** too.

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And #11 WTF!

 

[Malkinstheman]

yeah it’s actually wild. JJ being #8 is a mind**** too.

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Something about that list just doesnt seem right.

 

[JTG]

I love how confident he is. He is just ice cold and does not get rattled. He can also be on the ice with Sid, Geno, Letang, and Jake and the dude will not think twice to shoot the puck, or call for passes. He just has a swag about him.

 

[Turin]

That settles it, a fourth for Oleksiak.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

yeah it’s actually wild. JJ being #8 is a mind**** too.

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Looking at that list, one has to question the value of that stat.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Looking at that list, one has to question the value of that stat.

Looking at those names, I have to question my sobriety. Mackenzie Weegar? What kind of made-up name is that?

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I almost want to have a kid just so I can name him Bobson.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Let's start a petition to have the mods make a word filter that transforms Matt Murray into "Anatoli Smorin" and Jack Johnson into "Mike Truk".

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Looking at that list, one has to question the value of that stat.

Yeah ofc. Small sample and it’s a single rate stat. No context for the rest of those guys. It’s gonna look pretty dumb, especially when I only filtered for 100 min TOI. Not gonna be very useful haha.

Regardless, less about evaluation, more about just bumping something cool I saw on twitter to here.

 

[Gurglesons]

I’m really surprised how he continues to produce.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I’m really surprised how he continues to produce.

Yeah I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop but the kid has icewater running through his veins. Probably the most poised defender on the whole team minus maybe Dumo? Dude's panic threshold is super high.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

I’m really surprised how he continues to produce.

I never thought he'd be able to supplant Schultz as a rookie, but here we are. He's been outstanding.

 

[Griffin6612]

Something about that list just doesnt seem right.

Thinking the same thing. .

 

[Gurglesons]

I never thought he'd be able to supplant Schultz as a rookie, but here we are. He's been outstanding.

The Parayko we were looking for.

 

[TheGoldenJet]

I almost want to have a kid just so I can name him Bobson.

Works great if your names Bob. You can then start quite the legacy for yourself:

Bob -> Bobson -> Bobson Jr. -> Bobson Jr. the Second

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Works great if your names Bob. You can then start quite the legacy for yourself:

Bob -> Bobson -> Bobson Jr. -> Bobson Jr. the Second

HA! Toss a Commodore and an Esquire in there too... why not?

Commodore Bob Bobson Dugnutt IV, Esq.

 

[WayneSid9987]

Think what that stat above should tell you is just how well he can drag a chump like JJ up too.

Said this in last nights GDT but if puck retrievals/50-50 battles for the puck were a puzzle, he's a master class puzzler. Not only securing it but the end result being it's either on a friendly stick or out of the zone.

I think he's a superb student of the game and was deployed perfectly at Harvard. Meaning he got the tougher assignments while the Fox's and Walsh's got softer minutes.
He had a problem to solve going from NCAA to pro of how to handle a forecheck and he's coming up aces in that test.
The offence, much like the DZ "problem", he's starting to solve that too.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I love how he establishes body position in battles in the corners, boards, etc. For a not-huge guy he is extremely good at using leverage and positioning to win battles. Sign of an extremely smart, savvy player.

 

[billybudd]

Marino plays the way Devils fans advertised Paul Martin to be

To be fair, Martin did play like that for the Devils. Also for us for maybe 1 or 2 years out of the 5 he was here.

 

[billybudd]

Looking at those names, I have to question my sobriety. Mackenzie Weegar? What kind of made-up name is that?

Good old Willie Dustice.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

To be fair, Martin did play like that for the Devils. Also for us for maybe 1 or 2 years out of the 5 he was here.

Martin was such a mixed bag, here. Sometimes brilliant... sometimes basically Mark Eaton without the attention to his own end.

To be fair to him, the coaching staff was probably just yelling "STRETCH PASS" at him for 5 seasons.