Still, the captain is playing 18 minutes a night and has yet to find the net. Obviously, everyone was going to cut Jonathan Toews a lot of slack as he returned from a year away from hockey. Basically, everyone outside Ilya Sorokin has disappointed, but Mathew Barzal can wear it because he’s paid to be a 75-point guy, not a 50-point guy. Sean Durzi, making his NHL debut against the team that drafted him, became the second in a 6-2 drubbing.īetween a 13-game roadie to start the year, a COVID outbreak and three straight L’s to kick off the UBS Arena era, I think we can safely say the Islanders are having a year from hell. We’re giving it to the entire defence corps because, prior to Wednesday night’s tilt with the Leafs, Drew Doughty was the only blue-liner on this club to register a goal all year. He’s also on a bizarre run of losing skate blades in the middle of the action.
We’re happy giving Darcy Kuemper time to adjust to his new team, but even during the Avs’ recent hot stretch, Kuemper’s save percentage during his past nine games is a ho-hum. 916 save percentage at even strength ranks him 32nd in the league among tenders with at least five games played.
It’s not that Vitek Vanecek has been bad, more like he just didn’t grab the bull by the horns when Ilya Samsonov was out or scuffling a bit upon his return from injury. Kailer Yamamoto has five points in 19 games as the 2017 first-rounder can’t seem to find anything close to the point-per-game pace he displayed over 27 games in 2019-20. Monahan is scoring at a 14-goal pace in 70 contests dating back to the start of last season. If I told you Calgary would be one of the teams surging to start the year, wouldn’t you assume Sean Monahan had recaptured 30-goal form? The big centre has just two markers all year.
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