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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
PMM - I respect your hockey views so what are you seeing with Dougie? I am not calling him the goat but he as been very average so far IMO. This team, the way it is structured and loaded up with salary on the back end, needs him to be better than this I believe.
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Gulutzan has deployed Hamilton 61% of the time in the offensive zone, which is ALOT. But when deployed there, he's been keeping the puck in the zone and getting a ton of shots directed towards the net (62% Corsi). He's doing the right things out there. When he finds himself in his own, he's done a good job of pushing it back up the ice. He and Joki were superb in the second game of the season. He wasn't on the ice for any of the goals against in that game.
In the other two games, his underlying numbers have shown him to be good. Not great, but good. He has taken some dumb penalties, for sure. He seems to be walking that fine line between aggressive play and taking penalties, and right now he's usually been on the wrong side of it. That's been his biggest knock so far. I just don't see where much of the criticism is coming from.