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No Excuses No Limits! The mother fucking goddamn season thread

The vibes should be goal-worthy for Auston Matthews

Seven goals in eight games is a fine start for Matthews. When accounting for ice time, his pace is top 20 in the league. But he has goals in just three games so far this season.

Matthews raced out with back-to-back hat tricks to open the season. He’s only mustered one goal since, last Tuesday against the Washington Capitals.

It’s not for a lack of trying. Matthews’ shot volume has been relatively consistent compared to years past, and he’s improved the quality of his shots. According to MoneyPuck, Matthews’ average shot distance in all situations this year is 20.4 feet. It’s a lot closer than last year’s 27.2 feet, or 2021-22’s 27.9. Right now, it measures up as the closest average shooting distance of his career, ahead of 2020-21’s 22.4 feet. Considering the quality of his shot locations to start the season, it’s no surprise that MoneyPuck’s model has him off to a career-best individual expected goal rate of 2.32 per 60.



But one noteworthy trend in the wrong direction: Matthews’ shots are actually going on net slightly less than usual — 67.9 percent of the time — when his attempts tend to go on goal upward of 70 percent of the time.

After a down year in the goal column by Matthews’ standards, the center should bounce back this season, especially if he continues to put up such high-quality chances. But whether he can continue driving this close to the net or whether his sweet spot is actually a little further out is going to be a trend to watch moving forward,
 

The vibes should be goal-worthy for Auston Matthews

Seven goals in eight games is a fine start for Matthews. When accounting for ice time, his pace is top 20 in the league. But he has goals in just three games so far this season.

Matthews raced out with back-to-back hat tricks to open the season. He’s only mustered one goal since, last Tuesday against the Washington Capitals.

It’s not for a lack of trying. Matthews’ shot volume has been relatively consistent compared to years past, and he’s improved the quality of his shots. According to MoneyPuck, Matthews’ average shot distance in all situations this year is 20.4 feet. It’s a lot closer than last year’s 27.2 feet, or 2021-22’s 27.9. Right now, it measures up as the closest average shooting distance of his career, ahead of 2020-21’s 22.4 feet. Considering the quality of his shot locations to start the season, it’s no surprise that MoneyPuck’s model has him off to a career-best individual expected goal rate of 2.32 per 60.



But one noteworthy trend in the wrong direction: Matthews’ shots are actually going on net slightly less than usual — 67.9 percent of the time — when his attempts tend to go on goal upward of 70 percent of the time.

After a down year in the goal column by Matthews’ standards, the center should bounce back this season, especially if he continues to put up such high-quality chances. But whether he can continue driving this close to the net or whether his sweet spot is actually a little further out is going to be a trend to watch moving forward,
bottom line, Marner and Matthews need to be top 10 scorers for this cap distribution to work
 
Didn't we all expect those 3 to be shit? If I remember correctly Kampf wasn't good after the deadline last year and Klingleberry and Reaves are exactly what they are... 1 dimensional misfit toys.
 
the annoying thing is that Bert and Max have both been surprisingly good on the nerdies but they were supposed to be here for "real production".
 
contrary to popular belief, Kampf's numbers did not tank after the engvall trade last year.
 
post-engvall trade

Acciari 50.3xgf% (-3.8rel)
Kampf 47.4 (-6.0)
Kerfoot 47.1 (-6.4)
ZAR 44.0 (-9.8)
Lafferty 42.5 (-12.7)

and of course, Kampf got the toughest usage of all those depth guys. (Acciari had the pleasure of playing with RoR).
 
Wings signed Gost for about the same amount as Klinger and he's been what we were hoping for from Klinger.

Nerdies always preferred that signing, obviously.
 
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