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Originally Posted by codynw
How has he been playing lately? Any better?
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Noticeably. He's bringing a much more physical game that seems to be translating into him getting points. He's also becoming more of the "playmaker" role then pure shooting role, that's also getting him ahead.
The last few games, he's fighting for his chances. Pushing his way into the crease, pushing guys out of his way, he's switched off his "get the puck to me" mode and gone full into "I'm taking the puck now thanks" mode. I think part of that was getting him off the top line and putting him with more of the workhorse types in Josh Jooris and Corey Locke.
Aside from the loss on Sunday (which was just a disaster is so many ways) he's been contributing on the score sheet consistently. He had a 5 game point streak that was 1g, 4a and doesn't include the beauty of a shootout winner for Saturday's game. His goal on Wednesday was the first in 12 games so long overdue. His assists have come on Josh Jooris goals and you can see the chemistry between them. I think given time, Sven will probably get a few more goals with Jooris. Right now (or the past few games) Jooris had the hot hand so Sven just kept setting him up.
There's a few videos in the Heat forum in the game day threads with highlights from the games and that show how much Sven's game as evolved in the last couple games.