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 Skookum Jim
Messages: 6158
Registered: March 2006
Location: Burnaby, BC
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Interesting stat on Nurse..
It seemed to me that Nurse was always the culprit regarding pucks off stick/skate/body deflections into the Oiler net..
Staples thought the same thing and reviewed past Oiler game stats on player deflections on to their own net.. turns out Nurse has had 10 deflections on net.. with 5 goals against.. (goalie with 0.500 SV% !! ) .. and the rest of the entire TEAM had 10 deflections total on their own net .. that kind of discrepancy would suggest a trend towards statistical relevance.
So it isn't just my imagination.. it seems to be a thing with Nurse.. Staples and Leavins both think its the way he tries to block shots, and his positioning.. there's methods players use to reduce the probability of deflecting pucks on net.. positioning, skate and stick placement.. but he isn't employing them.. or is bad at it.
I'm sure coaches must have caught this.. shouldn't that be a teachable set of skills?
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