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This is what I’ve been looking for in games where they have a lead this season. They need to learn how to close out games strong instead of letting teams back in or looking like they are just holding on for dear life. It’s part of the maturation process.

Is Eichel really a much better defensive player? I’m very skeptical.

With all due respect to the uncertainty of the position, Devon Levi’s performance is far and away above anything that Cal Peterson achieved. Portillo is a run of the mill good goalie prospect, a crapshoot.

I would call it “several”, but close enough.

Matt Murray has been excellent this season.

Papa John’s fan? Seriously though, I think there is a very good chance that Quinn is a star and ends up being one of the 5 best players on the team going forward. Olofsson ain’t that.

I don’t know if they would still be “good”, but I doubt they would be better. Quinn does things to contribute that Olofsson simply doesn’t.

Yeah, I get a Lazar-ish vibe. A little more skill/speed, a little less size/ruggedness.

Look at Vilardi’s #s. How does that math work out?

It’s not the player type I would target as a fit for Power/Dahlin. A big part of Grans’ game is carrying the puck in transition. It’s kind of a duplicate skill set. Id be looking for RHD who can regain possession in the defensive zone and make good/fast decisions with where to pass it. Puck carrying ability and offensive aggressiveness are some of the last skills I would have in mind to pair with Dahlin or Power.

Is Grans really a defensive defenseman? He is pretty big, but I always got the impression that he leaned more towards offense and the defense was kind of a work in progress, that he played more like a Power than a Samuelsson, to use a quick Sabres comparison.

Oh, no, it’s just because the graph is per 60 (~10), while the list is just straight xGF (3.83). Which makes sense, with 22:23 of ES ice time it calculates out to 10.3 xGF/60.

Why don’t the xGF numbers on the graph match the xGF numbers on the numerical list? It looks like about 10 on the graph, but 3.85 on the list? What’s up with that?

It’s a minor point, but I’m not sure from that video that she wasn’t happy with Rochester or didn’t understand how things worked. She probably has a bunch of people on her socials who are not “hockey people” and don’t know how it works. Objectively, compared to “normal” jobs it is pretty crazy, or “insane” as I think she says. Personally, I don’t get people who put tons of their life out on social media, but lots of people do, and getting shuffled between the NHL/AHL is definitely a big deal for a player and their family, especially with a new baby, which I believe they have. I don’t think anyone would like it, even if they understood that it was as part of the deal. I didn’t really think she said anything outrageous, out of line, or worthy of scorn. I wouldn’t blame anyone if they decided to take, say, a 2 year, $650k per deal in the Swiss League with the higher degree of certainty that comes with that. As opposed to getting shuffled around and going on long overnights get bus rides in the AHL. That might be better for the family.

Best friends with the kids? Never heard that one before. Just that they went to the same school and knew each other. Also, I think you are extrapolating too much from the fact that they didn’t draft him.

I’m relaxed. I just try to state things as clearly as possible. Sometimes that comes across as blunt or overly serious.

It’s hard or impossible to quantify, but I’m also not positive that “prime offensive output” exactly equals “prime hockey player”. There is also the defensive facet of the game.

Honestly, after looking at it a 2nd time, I understand it less. Regardless, I can see that it’s heavily skewed at each end by the early entry, and longevity of elite players. To me, that makes it harder to say with any confidence that it’s correctly identifying the peak age range.

They certainly have the money to fly whoever wherever, but getting on a plane for a 2/3/4/5 hour flight, possibly with layovers, is a lot more of a hassle than jumping in the car for a 2/3/4 hour drive.

The thing is, the chart isn’t tracking raw totals. It’s tracking amount of change in production.

A guy in his 3rd NHL season simply is not a rookie, and you will continue to be misunderstood if you keep using the word like that. Everyone else is not going to adjust to your personal definitions.

You don’t think that playing close to home is attractive to very many players? I think if Buffalo gets it’s head out of it’s butt and becomes a perennially decent team, it becomes an attractive location for lots of players from Ontario. It’s not about being close to the border so players can live just on the other side. It’s about being close to family/friends so it’s easier to visit. The word rookie has an actual definition. It’s not “ player on his ELC”.

Come on, now you are just using words wrong on purpose. We are all here just reading what is written by other people. It makes it a lot easier to understand each other if we don’t just start making up our own personal definitions for words whenever we feel like it.

I don’t know. I’ve seen charts like this before, but they just never seem to make sense. Players at age 18 produce more than players at age 27? Players at age 20 produce more than players at age 26? Players at age 40 produce more than players at age 35?

Lance Lyshowski and Joe Yerdon confirm on their Maintenance Day podcast that Sheahan initiated and requested this contract termination, and also that he intends to pursue opportunities overseas. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/maintenance-day/id1601283889?i=1000587724007 They begin discussing it around the 25:00 min mark.