RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 09 October 2019 16:02

NetBOG wrote on Wed, 09 October 2019 15:36 https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/early-returns-neal-lucic -swap-exactly-oilers-flames-hoped/ Eric Francis now trying to claim that 2 fights = 6 goals and Lucic was the main reason the Flames almost won last night. I thought Oilers media was bad. Francis is a freaking clown. Even Stauffer isn't this bad. I heard him compare James Neals 6 goals which right now leads the NHL and then said "Lucic is leading the league in his own stats, PIMs". I don't care who you are and what style of game you like. There isn't a GM around that would take PIMS over goals. I bet Treleving as much as he wanted to make the Flames tougher is not too thrilled seeing Neal with 6 goals and Lucic with not even a point and 1 shot and would gladly trade a few PIMS for some points from Lucic. Francis actually believes and said it in his article that Flames fans would be happy if Lucic repeated his 6 goals from last year as long as he lumbers around the ice trying to pick fights. At 5.25 mill, is he nuts?

PIMs are such a funny stat. It’s super rare that an actual “good” penalty gets taken, like preventing a sure goal or breakaway, but then if somebody has lots of PIMs at the end of the year that’s somehow a positive. Nobody is intimidated nowadays, if they ever were, and frankly I’d take the power play over the intimidation anyways.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you can get a lottery pick.