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Jay McClement & the PK

I won't even bring up those on here who once pushed for Francois "Beautiful Path" Beauchemin.  You know who you are!!!!11!1!!! >:( >:( >:(
 
Heroic Shrimp said:
Bullfrog said:
Zee said:
Carlyle gets McClampdown
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Please, somebody make it stop.
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C'mon Bulfrog, when life gives you McClements, make McClemonade.
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bustaheims said:
Beowulf said:
Bullfrog said:
Beowulf said:
Not to hijack McClampdown's (lets give this a shot?)
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Pretty please, let's not.
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Fair enough, McClementykill it is!  ;)
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That's not better. Can we not force unnatural nicknames on players, please? This is Lockdown Luke Schenn all over again, but even worse this time.
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:P  Get over it busta, that was a great nickname, way better than crap like Optimus Reim.  ::)
 
Some stats in here about the Leafs PK and the precarious nature of it right now - allowing far more shots against than last season and relying on the goaltending to an unsustainable degree: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/leafs-beat/are-these-maple-leafs-better-than-last-years-team/article15291864/

Hopefully some personnel returning can go a ways to helping out, but the PK is one area where the face-offs are probably noticeably hurting the team.
 
Potvin29 said:
Some stats in here about the Leafs PK and the precarious nature of it right now - allowing far more shots against than last season and relying on the goaltending to an unsustainable degree: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/leafs-beat/are-these-maple-leafs-better-than-last-years-team/article15291864/

Hopefully some personnel returning can go a ways to helping out, but the PK is one area where the face-offs are probably noticeably hurting the team.
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Good point.  Bozak actually logs a fair mount of PK time, does he not?  They need him to win draws, and he's gotten good at getting in passing lanes.

Also Kulemin.

EDIT: and Fraser, who seems to be the forgotten man.  I just did.  :P
 
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Potvin29 said:
Some stats in here about the Leafs PK and the precarious nature of it right now - allowing far more shots against than last season and relying on the goaltending to an unsustainable degree: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/leafs-beat/are-these-maple-leafs-better-than-last-years-team/article15291864/

Hopefully some personnel returning can go a ways to helping out, but the PK is one area where the face-offs are probably noticeably hurting the team.
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Good point.  Bozak actually logs a fair mount of PK time, does he not?  They need him to win draws, and he's gotten good at getting in passing lanes.

Also Kulemin.

EDIT: and Fraser, who seems to be the forgotten man.  I just did.  :P
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I can't see Fraser making much of a difference - he was 4th among the D in SH time per game last season of those who played most/all of the season.  When Holzer and O'Byrne were in the lineup both averaged more PK time per game than Fraser.

I'm sure he'll get PK time, I just don't think he'll personally make much of a difference.
 
Potvin29 said:
Hopefully some personnel returning can go a ways to helping out, but the PK is one area where the face-offs are probably noticeably hurting the team.
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Definitely. Every time you win a face-off on the PK and ice the puck off of it, by the time the other team has regained the zone and set things up, you've killed like 15-20 seconds of the penalty. You get that done 2 or 3 times a PK, and you've severely limited the other team's ability to create chances, never mind goals.
 
McClement - 7.48 goals/60 minutes of PK time.  Last year 3.84. 
Kulemin - 6.18 goals/60 minutes of PK time. Last year 6.88.

Interestingly, JVR leads the team among forwards with just 3.04 goals/60 minutes given up on the PK.
 
I don't know why the PK has fallen off so much this year.  Everyone agrees the goaltending hasn't been the reason ... don't we?

I personally think they aren't attacking the puck as much.
 
L K said:
McClement - 7.48 goals/60 minutes of PK time.  Last year 3.84. 
Kulemin - 6.18 goals/60 minutes of PK time. Last year 6.88.

Interestingly, JVR leads the team among forwards with just 3.04 goals/60 minutes given up on the PK.
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That kind of number is pretty heavily weighted towards presenting guys on the second PK unit as better, isn't it? Because a team with a really good PP will tend to convert early in the man advantage and give your Kulemin-types less time out there and specifically less time against a team's #1 unit.

I wonder how McClement looks in that regard compared to the guys he tends to be on the ice on the PK with.
 
Nik the Trik said:
L K said:
McClement - 7.48 goals/60 minutes of PK time.  Last year 3.84. 
Kulemin - 6.18 goals/60 minutes of PK time. Last year 6.88.

Interestingly, JVR leads the team among forwards with just 3.04 goals/60 minutes given up on the PK.
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That kind of number is pretty heavily weighted towards presenting guys on the second PK unit as better, isn't it? Because a team with a really good PP will tend to convert early in the man advantage and give your Kulemin-types less time out there and specifically less time against a team's #1 unit.

I wonder how McClement looks in that regard compared to the guys he tends to be on the ice on the PK with.
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Well Kulemin is 2nd on the team in SH-TOI/game by a pretty wide margin.
 
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