Keith Yandle with 965 straight games played is remarkable. Article I just saw about it though didn’t give his average time on ice since it started or anything, that would be interesting to see. I guess a “game played” means you have to complete one shift but like… is there a time requirement to that? A shift could be 30 seconds or two minutes so that seems like an odd measurement so unless he has a few hundred “30 second shift games” that count in this 965 that’s a crazy achievement.
I highly doubt that Keith Yandle at any point in his career was playing five minutes a game or less. Defenseman, especially ones that were of his caliber (until recently) usually play 15+ per game
I would like someone to yeet Aaron Dell into the boards if/when Craig Anderson (WitSec, dead, idk) or Dusty Tokarski (Covid complications) are finally able to return
The table leaves out xG, given that rask has a GSAA in the hundreds while Ward was negative (lol), just goes to show how good Boston's defensive play has been in those years for rask to be that low on the list.
I honestly can't believe he's ever won in the NHL. The Sabres have rolled out like, 10 different goalies or something in three seasons and he's possibly worse than "trying to play through vision issues" Carter Hutton
there was a time when the sharks wanted to make him the starter because they thought he was that good It’s no wonder they’ll never win
wait I didn’t mean a starter I meant they wanted to sign him long term and thank god they never did that
Hextall built up a fantastic prospect pool. He tried to build internally without flashy trades. It wasn't his fault everything was squandered.
I wouldn't call it fantastic, because Provorov & Sanheim ended up just being very good players instead of stars & the Nolan Patrick pick hurts a lot (although the kid's had some serious injury problems that I wouldn't wish on anybody). He never wanted to bottom out because he didn't want a losing culture around the team, which is fine but they never got a high draft pick except for Provorov & Patrick. Frost has had so many injury problems & other high picks like Ratcliffe & Rubstov are probably not going to make it. Everything adds up after awhile.
I (rightly) shit on the Devils plenty, but whew boy imagine if they picked Patrick over Hischier and Kakko over Hughes? yikes
In all fairness the consensus was that Patrick would put up great numbers but would be hampered by injury problems. I don’t think anyone foresaw that he was going to be a total bust at the NHL level.