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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
Fun fact, he only took 8 minor penalties (and no majors) after November 10th. So I would argue it would be quite difficult to take bad penalty after bad penalty when you take just 8 penalties in your final 45 games. No doubt he had a really bad stretch penalty wise to start the season but after he boarded Ekblad on November 10th the penalties went away for the most part.
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The funnest fact is that with limited ice time when he did play and 20 less games played then the players surrounding him Jooris ended up 4th on this team in minor penalties. There was a stretch of 24 games where Bollig only two two minor penalties, do I forgive him for the rest of the year because of that? No, certainly not. Bollig takes bad penalties.
You can forgive (to a degree) guys like Giordano or Hamilton for being high, they're eating up prime minutes against top competition. But for 4th line players, playing very limited roles they can't put their teams to a disadvantage when they do get an opportunity to play. Not with utterly needless hooking and tripping penalties.
I like Jooris, I hope he does well and bounces back with the Rangers, potentially good energy PK forward there but last season was terrible, no ifs ands or buts about it. In a cap world, which the Flames are up against you can't be overpaying these bottom line fringe guys.