Ryan Getzlaf is flying under the radar

[AngelDuck]

He's a beast.

Hall of famer?

Yes he's a hall of famer. He's going to get well over 1000 points, has a cup (led the team in scoring that year), finalist for the Hart, 2 olympic golds

The consistency is remarkable too, outside of a terrible season for the whole ducks team in 2011/2012

 

[AngelDuck]

Defensively he plays like a slug. Slow.

That's not true at all this year. He's been a beast all over the ice

 

[Sean Garrity]

Defensively he plays like a slug. Slow.

In his career absolutely, this season, you couldn't be more wrong.

If Getzlaf would stop having off-days/weeks/months/years people might give him more credit.

In his career absolutely, this season, you couldn't be more wrong.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

In his career absolutely, this season, you couldn't be more wrong.



In his career absolutely, this season, you couldn't be more wrong.

46 points in 58 games prior to his huge streak to end the season? I don't think I am.

 

[Arthuros]

46 points in 58 games prior to his huge streak to end the season? I don't think I am.

As was established earlier in the thread, it's kinda hard to put up points when you're carrying Perry like a sulking child whose way of coping is to sit down and refuse to move.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Underrated and overlooked in general, causing him to be overrated as a response in this thread. It's the OEL effect.

But a monster end to the season for a Ducks team that as a whole is being overlooked and is going to surprise some people in the playoffs

 

[KaseMeOutside]

46 points in 58 games prior to his huge streak to end the season? I don't think I am.

Just stop while you're behind. Getzlaf has been great all year.

 

[Kalv]

Getzy really has been great all year but obviously took off for real when Eaves came in. It was really physically painful to watch Perry waste all those situations at the start of the year that Getzy made for him.
But I think Bieksa admitted the team started slow on purpose to finish stronger.

I think what points doesn`t show is his great 2 way play and he has been a calm and collected captain that team seems to be comfortable behind. Even Kesler admitted that Getzy is the driving force

If you still want to find some thing to **** about, then Getzlaf has been awful in 99% of the overtimes. But who cares now, the 3 vs 3 will be back only in October

 

[Arthuros]

God, Getzlaf has been awful 3 on 3. Not only is he prone to crappy backhand passes, he's also not fast enough to catch someone on a breakaway.

It's like he's too used to having zero space and firing passes through the eye of the needle, and just freezes up when he sees so much open space.

 

[Kalv]

God, Getzlaf has been awful 3 on 3. Not only is he prone to crappy backhand passes, he's also not fast enough to catch someone on a breakaway.

It's like he's too used to having zero space and firing passes through the eye of the needle, and just freezes up when he sees so much open space.

He has had some unbelievable passes this year. Against whom was that goal when he found Eaves at the other side of the ice completely open and dished a pass basically through everybody?

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

As was established earlier in the thread, it's kinda hard to put up points when you're carrying Perry like a sulking child whose way of coping is to sit down and refuse to move.

I've been on HF a while. The argument is:

1. Of course he sucked, his linemates sucked.

or

2. He carried his line as all great players do.

Now, I think Getzlaf is better than simply a good player. So, which is it?

Is he a guy who produces best when his line knows what they're doing or is he a guy who works out best when people are hot?

 

[Vipers31]

I've been on HF a while. The argument is: (...)

Nobody cares about an artificially constructed two-dimensional argument some people on HF use to create a point that isn't there. If that's all you have, refer to an earlier post, and stop while behind.

It's unlikely for top end scorers to end up with three thirds of a season that all end up with roughly the same point production. Some ups and downs in terms of output are the norm, and you have to play through that. Getzlaf did so, and did so very well.

 

[Tkachuk Norris]

He's never been given the credit he deserves. He was a top 5 player for a longggggg time. Back to it by the looks of it.

 

[tony d]

Yeah, he's a good player for sure. Often under rated when it comes to talking about the best players to come out of the 2003 draft. For my money he's up there with Weber and Bergeron for best to come out of that draft class.

 

[rhinoshawarma]

Ryan Getzlaf is definitely underrated kind of like Backstrom was before this season.

So tired of this narrative, there have been at least 5 "backstrom is underrated" threads every year for the last 3 years. Will it ever stop?

 

[authentic]

I've been on HF a while. The argument is:

1. Of course he sucked, his linemates sucked.

or

2. He carried his line as all great players do.

Now, I think Getzlaf is better than simply a good player. So, which is it?

Is he a guy who produces best when his line knows what they're doing or is he a guy who works out best when people are hot?

Well he has been an elite player for a decade now, in the regular season and playoffs (except for maybe a few seasons I think), so there's that.

 

[GeeoffBrown]

46 points in 58 games prior to his huge streak to end the season? I don't think I am.

In today's NHL 46 points in 58 games is a great pace...

 

[DirtyMitts]

Always been a fan of Getzlaf. Great player. His vision is top 10 in the league, maybe even top 5. The passes he makes sometimes are incredible.

It sucks for the Ducks that Perry has fallen that much... he's got absolutely ZERO speed now and will probably soon be ineffective. Next Heatley ?

 

[ESH]

"Y'All" is singular.

Perry and Getzlaf don't play together.

Y'all is short for "you all" though.

Also, Getzlaf and Perry spent a large portion of the year playing together, though Eaves took Perry's spot when they traded for him.

 

[Paul4587]

Always been a fan of Getzlaf. Great player. His vision is top 10 in the league, maybe even top 5. The passes he makes sometimes are incredible.

It sucks for the Ducks that Perry has fallen that much... he's got absolutely ZERO speed now and will probably soon be ineffective. Next Heatley ?

Perry's speed has never been good, he's maybe lost a little bit there but his issues this year have been his inability to give or receive a pass cleanly, his unwillingness to go to the net like he's always done in the past and his effort levels. It looks like he decided to mentally check out for 3/4 of the year.

 

[CanadianPensFan1]

As was established earlier in the thread, it's kinda hard to put up points when you're carrying Perry like a sulking child whose way of coping is to sit down and refuse to move.

Oddly when pens say this about Sid dragging around the corpse that is kunitz, it's quickly discounted. Interesting.

 

[jax00]

He's the worst 3 on 3 player in the league though

 

[Arthuros]

Oddly when pens say this about Sid dragging around the corpse that is kunitz, it's quickly discounted. Interesting.

We weren't talking about him, but thanks.

 

[eternalbedhead]

It sucks for the Ducks that Perry has fallen that much... he's got absolutely ZERO speed now and will probably soon be ineffective. Next Heatley ?

That's what we're worried about. Hopefully this was just a down year for him (kinda like 11/12), but him having a season like this on the wrong side of 30 isn't exactly a great sign. The good thing, if it can be called that, is that his effort level seems to be the main problem, but he's just been so out of it this year on so many levels.

 

[Paul4587]

Oddly when pens say this about Sid dragging around the corpse that is kunitz, it's quickly discounted. Interesting.

Crosby has only played 191 of his 1118 minutes at 5 on 5 with Kunitz. Getzlaf played 630 of his 1119 minutes with Perry.