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 Skookum Jim
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Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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| hitmen4 wrote on Thu, 03 February 2022 07:03 |
What a joke of a take. Bouchard has played all of 63 NHL games and you're carving him up because he's not a first pairing guy yet? Of course he's going to have some defensive mistakes, and probably lots of them. He's essentially a rookie defenseman even if the weird NHL rules for what qualifies a rookie says he's not.
Bottom line is that Bouchard is still one of our best defenseman. In terms of defenseman, he's #1 on the team in points, goals, assists. 2nd in +/-. If you don't like the traditional counting stats, here are his fancies:
CF%: 54.88
XGF%: 54.15
SCF%: 52.28
HDCF%: 51.02
He's on the right side of 50% on all counts, despite his defensive errors. He's already an elite offensive defenseman.
To be honest his defensive game actually isn't that bad when you consider he plays over 21 minutes a night despite only playing 63 NHL games. Rookie defenseman, even the elite ones, just aren't that good defensively most of the time. Luckily for those guys is most of them don't have to deal with portions of their fan base that think every defenseman that's 6'-3 needs to be the second coming of Chris Pronger before they've even played a full season.
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You made my point for me. We agree he's not an NHL 1st pair d-man.
NHL isn't a development league, if you plan on winning games.
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