PocketNines
Cutter's Way
Were you able to listen to Armstrong's press conference this morning where he talked about it's not their good performances he worries about, it's when they have bad games they are really bad? If you have, then the difference between Perron, Tarasenko and Kyrou is that while they all put up numbers, Kyrou is the only one you can't fully trust because his bad games are reeeeeallly bad. If it's unsatisfying for me to use first/second line as a way to make that distinction, fine, ok, I accept that, but the difference between their bad games is the distinction I am getting at. Tarasenko and Perron definitely had lulls in their production like any streaky scorers, but these lulls weren't situations where they were getting totally worked and the team losing because they were just giving away the puck over and over. Perron and Tarasenko were more consistent than Kyrou.2nd liner don’t produce at a point per game pace. Most produce on the high end 40-50 points. You can say he isnt defensively resoonsible, which is true, but to pretend he is a second liner…….
Now sure as anything, someone (not saying you) is going to come back and go through an entire explanation of gaps in point production and I am going to call that totally dishonest to the argument I am making before it happens, because I am talking about what Doug Armstrong is talking about about the bad games being really bad.