Want to start your morning extremely depressed? Micah McCurdy just introduced a with and without tool. Turns out Johnson literally single-handedly torpedoed Malkin and Kessel this season.
Doesn’t a - on the second graph mean a good thing? So Johnson w/ Kessel and Malkin was terrible without Schultz, obviously.
Man, good thing the coach worshipped the altar of a cokehead and a dude who loved to criticize the effort of his own team while sucking.
Instead of you know.. the future elite D, two best Cs in the league and one of the best two-way wingers in the history of the game.
The point is that Schultz was a much bigger anchor on Kessel and Malkin. Malkin and Kessel were mostly not impacted offensively by Johnson, but were way worse defensively. Schultz dragged them down both offensively and defensively. The comment that Johnson "single handedly" brought down Malkin and Kessel is just wrong, that's the point I'm getting at. Johnson wasn't even the biggest problem on the Penguins 2nd pair when Schultz was healthy.
I've been getting at for months that Schultz was heinously bad last year, but everyone just wants to complain about Johnson and ignore that.
The point is that Schultz was a much bigger anchor on Kessel and Malkin. Malkin and Kessel were mostly not impacted offensively by Johnson, but were way worse defensively. Schultz dragged them down both offensively and defensively. The comment that Johnson "single handedly" brought down Malkin and Kessel is just wrong, that's the point I'm getting at. Johnson wasn't even the biggest problem on the Penguins 2nd pair when Schultz was healthy.
I've been getting at for months that Schultz was heinously bad last year, but everyone just wants to complain about Johnson and ignore that.
Who’s cares though? Schultz had a way smaller sample size coming off a bad injury.
Schultz came back from a split bone in his leg and was bad. Jack Johnson just sucks.
You should, because this team is going nowhere unless Schultz reverts back to 2016-2017 form. You can complain about Johnson all you want, but Schultz being bad hurts the Penguins a lot more than Johnson being bad does. Schultz rounding back into form helps the Penguins more than not playing Johnson does.
Injuries don't excuse the level of bad he was last year. If he was that affected by the injury, he shouldn't have played.
It’s definitely bad news if he doesn’t bounce back but it’s pretty likely that a historically good player bounces back from an injury, as opposed to a bad player becoming not bad at 32.
That's just the problem here, Schultz isn't a "historically good" player. He's a guy that had 1 amazing season, 1 good season and a bunch of crap. Outside of 2016-2017, he has never played above a #4 level.
It's just weird that I've heard almost nothing regarding Schultz's bad season from an injury, but a ton of people were saying stuff about Letang last off-season because he was terrible last year due to an injury.
Players can't be sat out or left on LTIR because they are rusty.You should, because this team is going nowhere unless Schultz reverts back to 2016-2017 form. You can complain about Johnson all you want, but Schultz being bad hurts the Penguins a lot more than Johnson being bad does. Schultz rounding back into form helps the Penguins more than not playing Johnson does.
Injuries don't excuse the level of bad he was last year. If he was that affected by the injury, he shouldn't have played.
I have faith that Schultz will return to form. After all, it is a contract year for him.
And if he doesn't, oooooooh boy.
The point is that Schultz was a much bigger anchor on Kessel and Malkin. Malkin and Kessel were mostly not impacted offensively by Johnson, but were way worse defensively. Schultz dragged them down both offensively and defensively. The comment that Johnson "single handedly" brought down Malkin and Kessel is just wrong, that's the point I'm getting at. Johnson wasn't even the biggest problem on the Penguins 2nd pair when Schultz was healthy.
I've been getting at for months that Schultz was heinously bad last year, but everyone just wants to complain about Johnson and ignore that.
Schultz was sidelined for 4 months with an injury that made his leg bend in a way that a leg was not meant to bend.
What was JJ's excuse?
I'm wondering, who will this board's mancrush be this season? We had Boedker, Duchene, Ferland/Dzingel recently. Maybe Spurgeon?
“That you heathen fans never gave him a fair shake!”- JR...probably.