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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
The whole team is outside of Grant, Granlund, Agostino and Hamilton. Shore, Elson & Arnold are within 2 points of Poirier and seem to get more ice-time (Arnold and Shore are often on the top PP unit). Poirier has been creating offensive opportunities but they just aren't going in. My only complaints about Poirier this year would be that he seems to take a lot of penalties, often for running the goalie and he isn't shooting enough, he's had 28 shots in 13 games and 13 of those came in the last 4 games. However over the last few games he is shooting the puck more and staying out of the penalty box, if he keeps that up goals will come and so will assists since the opponents will be focusing on his shot a bit more.
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That's why I think he was making adjustments to his game in the early going of the season to make sure that he's heading to places that he can utilize his skills. The type of game he played worked well in Juniors, but typically it is difficult to beat defenders one on one. Now he's getting into the proper places to fire shots and is not trying to do everything by himself.