Author of How to Win Forever, out Oct. 27th. Credits: The Athletic, Sportsnet, ESPN, Edmonton Journal, Oilers Nation, The Score, Hockey Prospectus & Grantland.
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I've been working on "How to Win Forever" for more than a year. It's still surreal to see the book jacket.
Among NHL D with 100+ minutes at 5v5, Bouchard is:
1st in GF/60 (7.44)
6th in GA/60 (0.78)
36th in xGF/60 (3.24)
T2nd in xGA/60 (1.65)
The offence has been crazy, but the underlying numbers suggest the Oilers should have a 2:1 edge in his minutes - mostly thru great defence.
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Life's not too different. If you put in an honest effort and take care of those closest to you, you'll be rewarded.
With all that in mind, I'm pumped to share:
🚨Introducing Darryl Sutter's "The Code of the West - Lessons From the Ranch and the Rink"🚨
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Sergei Bobrovsky is the first Maple Leafs goalie to allow 3+ goals in each of his first 6 games of a season since Vesa Toskala in 2009
Third line at 5v5, first unit power play, and no higher than second unit PK.
And that's fine, he's good value at that cap hit in those roles.
The PP has always been RNH's bread & butter, and at 33 it's time for his usage to evolve from jack-of-all-trades to specialist.
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This is not what I would've expected the Oilers zonal performance to look like given their personnel...
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It's too bad Eyssimont doesn't PK but he's still been a handy player over his NHL career.
Waivers today:
Michael Eyssimont #NHLBruins
Patrick Giles #SJSharks
Gustafsson cleared from yesterday
puckpedia.com/waiver-wire
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Checking in on our skating speed dashboard for the current season, making sure nothing is wrong, and, yeah, this one checks out.
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Devon Levi is the story of last night, but Jake Walman/Ty Emberson going 9-1 by shot attempts as a pairing is awfully important too.
I've been thinking about that Bouchard video package for a few days now. I'd like him to reduce is the insistence he sometimes has on forcing the puck up to 97/29, even if it's not optimal. But he's just so wonderfully quick at transitioning the puck from defence to offence.
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Classic Bouch game. Give him a second or two of time and space and he'll make a better touch than 95%+ of NHL defenders. Put him under pressure and he'll still identify and go for the "right" play but with occasionally tough results. Reads off 97 and 29 brilliantly but his quick breakout ability + knack for filtering shots through and finding open space in the offensive zone explains why his results without them on the ice are typically so strong.