Who is the genius who brought us the obsolete bum Scandella? and now we have to try to find a way to get rid of the shackles he represents. - Der Kaiser
Not sure if you like scandella or not, because of your coded message.
I imagine his nhl experience and reasonable contract justify some decent value. He is slow though
Who is the genius who brought us the obsolete bum Scandella? and now we have to try to find a way to get rid of the shackles he represents. - Der Kaiser
Man, I don't know about that. Point shares(both offensive and defensive) point to Risto crushing him. More EV points per game. Klefbom had one good year offensively, and this year regressed badly. Risto is the model of consistency offensively, both EV and PP. There's almost no variance in the points numbers the last 3 years. Klefbom might be better defensively, but his zone starts also favor that because he gets pretty even zone starts whereas Risto, aside from this year, has been leaned on heavily in the D-Zone. And what do you know? When Risto got more O-Zone starts this year his CF% came way up.
Plus Klefbom is fairly injury prone. Risto's had 2 injuries and missed a grand total of 13 games to injury in the last 4 years. Klefbom has missed 90 games in the last 4 years. Those are almost Bogo numbers. Ok, not quite Bogo's missed 128! games in the last 4 years; though half of them came last year.
They're stylistically different as well. They've both played in 5 seasons, Klefbom is a year older, but Risto has a little more than a season's more worth of GP. Klefbom has on ice goals for of 53 in 66 games and on ice goals against of 66. Risto was 60 and 83 respectively in 73 games. Edmonton scored 35 more goals and allowed 17 less than the Sabres. - Wetbandit1
Their zone start ratio's were almost identical this year, and Klefbom had far superior expected goals against and far fewer shot attempts against. He's played 148 games in the last two years, so while he may not be iron man i don't think you can label him injury prone.
To say they weren't contenders isn't quite true. They were derailed by some pretty awful goaltending a few of those years after excellent regular seasons. Then Bylsma's message got stale along with the awful goaltending, then Sullivan came in and won back-to-back Cups. Johnston was a failed experiment. I actually totally forgot about him until I looked it up. - Wetbandit1
it also didn't help that money was inefficiently spent in secondary areas, like Sutter.
Their zone start ratio's were almost identical this year, and Klefbom had far superior expected goals against and far fewer shot attempts against. He's played 148 games in the last two years, so while he may not be iron man i don't think you can label him injury prone.
Edit: Risto had a higher PDO as well - Sabresfan-365
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Their zone start ratio's were almost identical this year, and Klefbom had far superior expected goals against and far fewer shot attempts against. He's played 148 games in the last two years, so while he may not be iron man i don't think you can label him injury prone.
Edit: Risto had a higher PDO as well - Sabresfan-365
I think you can, he's missed a lot of time. He missed more games to injury this year alone than Risto has since he's been a regular and playing an absolute (frank) ton of minutes. And that's not insignificant. Bogo hasn't exactly had a lot of injuries, they're just bad ones. He's(Klefbom) not like Kane who will, aside from this year, will miss 4 games here, 7 games there. He misses big chunks of games.
Yeah, I said he was better defensively, he also played on a better team and had a career year on a team that massively over-performed. I was just showing that when Risto finally got O-Zone starts his CF% came way up. 4 points is a big jump in one year, especially when the team around him was even more atrocious than last year.
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