CrudeRemarks wrote on Wed, 09 October 2019 19:02

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.

Travis Yost is rarely a popular guy on this site, but this may change his fortunes a little bit...

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