Johnny Hoxville
The Return of a Legend
Any chance Shink gets called up before season's end?
It's possible, not sure it's likely though. That all depends on Hunter.
Any chance Shink gets called up before season's end?
It's possible, not sure it's likely though. That all depends on Hunter.
It is illogical for him not to. Whether he gets a start is another question.Nick Schneider's season is over with Medicine Hat after losing to the Oil Kings tonight. I wonder if he'll join Stockton?
he is dressed as the backup tonight, wearing #31http://stocktonheat.com/news/goaltender-nick-schneider-set-to-join-heat/
Schneider is going to heat today.
Jankowski has been excellent tonight. He has his first point, an assist on a goal that started with him showing good hands at the blueline to keep the puck in. He could easily have 3 points tonight, he made a great move around the defenseman and a blind backhand centering pass to Shore in the first period who shot wide and early in the second a drop pass in close to Austin Carroll who appeared to shelf it but was called back after a very very lengthy review. He has also shown excellent defensive awareness as he is regularly the first guy back and always seems to be prepared to cover the point when a defenseman pinches. He is also 4 for 8 on draws if my count is correct.
That said he has made a coupe small mistakes, in both situations though he got the puck back himself, one leading to the goal and the other to Carroll's disallowed goal.
Also I am a little behind live action so more may have happened since I typed this, in my time there is about 9 minutes left in the third.
I posted this in the Janko signing thread on the trade board
Lots of shots does not mean lots of scoring chances, this isn't just a case of a team that has bad luck. While shots are usually in the Heat's favor, scoring chances are often in favor of the opposition. Outside of a few guys the Heat are not an offensively talented team so they just throw the puck to the net a lot and when they do get scoring chances they don't have the talent to bury it. On the flip side they give up too many scoring chances for the number of shots they give up, often due to absolutely terrible giveaways.So I was messing around in my favorite stats site http://www.ahl.prospect-stats.com/teams.html and I found some interesting things about the Heat.
They lead the league in shots per game! All season I have been thinking that the heat have basically no offensive firepower but apparently they can throw a lot of rubber on net. They also have the league's second lowest shooting percentage, which can probably explain why they don't look like they can score.
Also, they are second in shot differential in their division, and 2nd last in points %. Wooooo corsi.
The goaltending has been terrible, much like that of the parent club, but we all think Gillies is the real deal, so that should get better. The bad goaltending and low shooting percentage combined to give the Heat the worst PDO in the league.
If the gods of regression act like they're supposed to, the Heat could be in for a great season (at least offensively). Their shots against/game are a little below average, but they should be an offensive powerhouse next year, assuming the team doesn't get gutted by callups.
Maybe Huska is actually doing something right.