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Juiceman

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Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 8, 2023 at 5:59 p.m.
Thread: If petterson wants out
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>C21</b></div><div>I get your point but it only slightly weakens mine. Take the Canucks games out all of those teams records, the Canucks wins still mainly come from losing teams. The goal differential even more so. And that’s not their fault, you play the games listed on the schedule. But I’m not going to act as if I believe the Canucks are going to continue shooting at a 15.5% clip and saving 93.6% of pucks.

Basically, I’m not going to expect their goal differential and record to stay at the top of the league when every metric and my eyes are telling me, it’s not sustainable. Talented team on an absolute heater, but once their top guys start to slow down and become human again, I’m worried that the makeup of the team could potentially lead to them being a streaky team. Which in a worst case scenario after a start like this, leads them to missing playoffs.

Am I predicting they miss playoffs right now? Absolutely not. To me they had a good shot at playoffs before the season and now they’re in prime position to make playoffs as a team that has finally had a good start, which is something they’ve missed greatly the past two seasons with how they’ve been able to make up ground towards the end of the year

TLDR:
Great start, unsustainable numbers. They need to improve defensively and challenge goalies with more volume (more volume ≠ more shots for the sake of taking more shots) so they can keep the scoring up and the goals against down. T

With how crazy their start has been, there’s a word in which that comedown to normal level is so drastic, that they fall out of playoff positioning by seasons end, thus triggering a Petey trade demand</div></div>

You’re right of course they will regress, but that means instead of winning games 10-1, it’ll be something like 4-2. Doesn’t mean they will start losing a ton of games. They just won’t be lighting goalies up with 6 goals per game
Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 4, 2023 at 4:10 p.m.
Thread: If petterson wants out
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>C21</b></div><div>The trade itself is bad. The idea that Petey may end up wanting out is still very possible as Petey still seems to be waiting to make a decision. He already has all the leverage he needs to get his bag.

Vancouver over preforming so far and still has a 1–2-1 record against teams with a .500 point’s percentage/teams in the top 20 in the standings right now</div></div>

Have you ever thought about the fact that the Canucks winning against them is a reason they are below 0.500? Canucks have played half their games against teams who were considered cup contenders at the start of the year. I don’t expect them to continue to be at the top of the league, but let’s not pretend the Canucks are simply getting lucky