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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
I was one of Ferland's distractors last season and I can assure you it wasn't because I missed replays, come on FDW.
Physically and offensively he looks better in both regards. He's finishing his checks this year, with more consistency. Plenty of times last year he'd bump into a guy and yeah it would count as a hit but it was a nothing moment. This year he's smashing into players more often with devastating results.
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I have to disagree actually. I think Ferland was consistently physical last year but didn't get recognized for it, or for his good offensive play for whatever reason.
I just went through my video of his 2015/2016 and counted of the hits I showed 47 what I would consider big hits in 71 games (
66% of games). That's also 47 big hits out of his 207 official hits (
23% of hits).
This year through the 21 games I've pulled highlights from he has 12 big hits (
57% of games), and that's 12 out of his 49 official hits through 21 games (
24% of hits).
Nothing super scientific, but as someone who looks through the games for each hit he makes the numbers should be pretty accurate.