I can’t access the stats from Natural Stat Trick I’d like to, but my semi-educated guess is Barkov is drawing a lot of Pastrnak. Like how Bergeron wouldn’t always light up the scoresheet because of his deployment, it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s almost exclusively seeing 88 every shift, devoting his time to keeping him under wraps.
Holy shit, I hope the Bruins go up 4 and someone ruins his offseason on Wednesday.
I feel like Chucky has a history of dirty hits. I remember he had the beginnings of a reputation as a head hunter a couple of seasons ago. Maybe he's cleaned it up since.
I think maybe you need to show your work here. I did a google search and from what I can tell he has been fined once and the Avs whined about him taking out one of tgeir guys who was fucking with the goalie. Not sure that's enough for me to call him dirty.
Judging by everyone's reactions, I was offbase with my assessment of Mac--and I'm really happy about that. I follow the Bruins box scores and highlights during the season, but I'm pretty tuned in during playoffs. I recall some questionable hits early in his career (Anderson, Aho, Necas, etc.), but it doesn't seem like he has any reputation or real history of dirty play. Mea culpa.
He was also suspended for a playoff game for a headshot against Columbus.
71-18-74 has been really good. It's a small sample size but I think it's worth their while to keep them together. In about 25 regular and post season minutes with thoe 3 on the ice together:
I disagree, Pasta has really bad and boneheaded turnovers. It was pretty bad for a stretch in March, but agree he's been much better in the playoffs.
I'm not saying he doesn't turn it over. He does. 2nd hightest turnover rate in the league. I'm just pointing out that this is what you get with high end elite offensive players. They have the puck alot and thus they turn it over a lot. That's reflected by the top 10 list.
Yeah I just don't think we should make excuses for it. He needs to be better. His turnover rate is unacceptable.
Definitely true, but possibly incomplete, yeah? We don't have a metric for boneheadedness of turnovers yet.
We'd probably need to look at microstats that aren't really publicly available. They'd show where he is turning it over. It's one thing if it's lazy/sloppy passes around the permimeter, it's another if he's turning over low percentage passes to the slot/high danger areas. Ditto for trying to dance through a defender to get a breakaway/high danger chance or mindlessly doing it in the neutral zone. They'd also show the number of puck touches and percentage of completed plays and what not. That stuff is just not available publicly. Eye test picks up the bad stuff a lot more easily than the good. He could make 100 passes in a game and complete 98 but people will remember the 2 bad ones more than the 98 good ones. People seem to jump on Pastrnak for turnovers but nobody hays similar complatints about Marchand who turns it over at just about the same rate (4.06 for Pasta 3.73 for Brad).
There has been a lot of talk in this forum about how Bertuzzi and Pasta need help defensively, so maybe Monty is thinking that putting the greatest defensive forward in NHL history between them will be the way to keep those two together without giving away the store at the other end.
I've never understood the NHL's fascination with Paul Maurice. He's been a head coach for 24 seasons and made the playoffs only 10 times, advancing past the first round 6 times. 3 of those happened more than 20 years ago. Yet, he never seems to last more than 5 minutes on the unemployment line.
