Travis Sanheim - D - 6'3" - 181 - Calgary WHL - 2014 pick (1-17) - [signed ELC, 9/25]

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JXC

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alll those point shots by manning that failed to get through could have been goals by sanheim. Inexcusable not to play him.
Sanheim has two career goals?
 

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You do know advanced stats says Manning has outplayed Sanheim this series? :sarcasm:

Sanheim hasn't played badly, but he hasn't jumped out either.
 
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You do know advanced stats says Manning has outplayed Sanheim this series? :sarcasm:

Manning's 5v5 xGF% was the lowest on the defense in the playoffs.

Hagg 75.59%
Provorov 52.73%
Ghost 49.16%
Sanheim 43.64%
MacDonald 41.35%
Gudas 38.67%
Manning 35.83%

In the regular season he was second lowest.

Sanheim 54.42%
Ghost 52.36%
Gudas 52.04%
Provorov 50.45%
MacDonald 49.41%
Manning 48.89%
Hagg 48.15%
 

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Manning's 5v5 xGF% was the lowest on the defense in the playoffs.

Hagg 75.59%
Provorov 52.73%
Ghost 49.16%
Sanheim 43.64%
MacDonald 41.35%
Gudas 38.67%
Manning 35.83%

In the regular season he was second lowest.

Sanheim 54.42%
Ghost 52.36%
Gudas 52.04%
Provorov 50.45%
MacDonald 49.41%
Manning 48.89%
Hagg 48.15%

He means to say only a select few cherry picked stats that he has stripped of context, of course.
 

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Glad Sanheim will get some more playoff games this season. I just wish he had gotten two more (at least) with the Flyers.

I watched him pretty closely in the four games he had in the Pittsburgh series and thought he played well.

He sometimes gets criticized for a lack of strength in his board play, but he's improved in this area. He's not as strong as he'll be in a couple of years, but he's learned to use his speed to get to loose pucks in the corners and move them up ice quickly, which is usually better than getting bogged down in a board battle anyway.

In his four playoff games, the Flyers allowed 18 goals. Sanheim was on the ice for two of them.

The goal against that seemed to punch his ticket to the press box was Kessel's in the first period of game four. As you can see in the sequence starting at 0:52 in the video below, Sanheim didn't catch Kessel, but I'm not sure who could have, in that situation.

The play started with a good stretch pass from Manning to Laughton. After an attempted pass to Raffl failed, the puck came back to Laughton on the left boards. Then, we saw one of those blind, backward, diagonal passes in the offensive zone that the Flyers attempt too often (Jake does them; G does them; Simmer does them; even Couts does them. They drive me nuts.)

Anyway, Laughton's hail Mary pass to no one in particular was read by Kessel, who filtered it to Malkin and they were off to the races. Sanheim managed to get back enough to leave Kessel with only one option; a forehand shot that was stoppable. Unfortunately, Elliott let it leak through and the Pens went up 2-0.

After the game, Dave Hakstol said one of the biggest problems in the Flyers' poor start was "early in the game, until the first power play, our D didn't move the puck well, we weren't sharp and crisp with it back there ... that's where a lot of our issues started."

If you go back and watch the start of that game, until the first power play that Hak mentioned, you'll see MacDonald falling and giving the Penguins possession in our end. You'll see Manning losing the puck in the neutral zone, which gave Pitt a great opportunity. You'll see turnovers from Filpulla, Read and Weal. You'll also see MacDonald take an unnecessary penalty that created the first power play which led to the Penguins' first goal.

Did Sanheim do anything wrong during this part of the game that Hak focused on? Nope. He also made a nice recovery of the puck behind our goal and passed it to a wide open AMac for an easy zone exit.

Was he at fault for the Kessel goal? I don't see it, but if he was he had company in Laughton and Elliott.

So, after that game Sanheim sat, and Hagg, Manning and Gudas played. For a coach who expressed concerns about a D-corps that didn't move the puck well, it was a really strange decision.

 

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Hopefully Sanheim will really train this offseason, he simply isn't physical enough for a guy his size, and he's not as skilled as Ghost - you really only need one guy like Ghost.

Sanheim is a work in progress, he was sheltered last year with the easiest matchups, which is fine, nothing wrong with bringing a young player along slowly. Next season he should be on the 2nd pair, playing 18-20 minutes a night, including PK and PP2. But to play PK and in his D-zone he needs to be able to clear people in the crease and win board battles. If he can do that, as he gets more comfortable offensively (less skating, better passing, more playmaking) he can be a top D-man in a few years.

But he wasn't nearly the impact player some would suggest - only 10 points in 49 games averaging 15 minutes a night. For a guy who is still shaky in his D-zone, that's 3rd pair production at best.
 

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Hopefully Sanheim will really train this offseason, he simply isn't physical enough for a guy his size, and he's not as skilled as Ghost - you really only need one guy like Ghost.

Sanheim is a work in progress, he was sheltered last year with the easiest matchups, which is fine, nothing wrong with bringing a young player along slowly. Next season he should be on the 2nd pair, playing 18-20 minutes a night, including PK and PP2. But to play PK and in his D-zone he needs to be able to clear people in the crease and win board battles. If he can do that, as he gets more comfortable offensively (less skating, better passing, more playmaking) he can be a top D-man in a few years.

But he wasn't nearly the impact player some would suggest - only 10 points in 49 games averaging 15 minutes a night. For a guy who is still shaky in his D-zone, that's 3rd pair production at best.

I mean none of that is incorrect, but you're leaving out that at 5v5 in that role his possession numbers were fairly impressive for anyone let alone a rookie and the mistakes he was making that were leading to high danger chances against weren't any less frequent with some of the veterans he was benched in favor of.
 

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Hopefully Sanheim will really train this offseason, he simply isn't physical enough for a guy his size, and he's not as skilled as Ghost - you really only need one guy like Ghost.

Sanheim is a work in progress, he was sheltered last year with the easiest matchups, which is fine, nothing wrong with bringing a young player along slowly. Next season he should be on the 2nd pair, playing 18-20 minutes a night, including PK and PP2. But to play PK and in his D-zone he needs to be able to clear people in the crease and win board battles. If he can do that, as he gets more comfortable offensively (less skating, better passing, more playmaking) he can be a top D-man in a few years.

But he wasn't nearly the impact player some would suggest - only 10 points in 49 games averaging 15 minutes a night. For a guy who is still shaky in his D-zone, that's 3rd pair production at best.
Accurate assessment in my opinion

I look forward to Sanheim next year
 

deadhead

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I mean none of that is incorrect, but you're leaving out that at 5v5 in that role his possession numbers were fairly impressive for anyone let alone a rookie and the mistakes he was making that were leading to high danger chances against weren't any less frequent with some of the veterans he was benched in favor of.

Sanheim is skilled, but it was obvious early in the year he's much better in open ice than when pressured, that was one reason to protect him, it takes time to learn how to handle pressure, make quick decisions, etc. I think people just look at his raw skills and have exaggerated expectations. Lindblom also put up big Corsi numbers when he came up, but like Sanheim, struggled to turn them into actual points - because it takes time to get the timing and anticipation to turn an easy shot into a tough scoring chance.

Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and accept that players take time until the light goes on, and often they explode, Konency didn't just start scoring because he was with Giroux and Couts, he also started sinking shots he was missing early in the season (when he had his share of scoring chances). Playing with them meant more of those shots, but he still had to score on them to stay on the 1st line.
 

deadhead

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FU. Only an internet donkey's butt goes around calling people liars.
A bunch of cowards on this board.
 
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