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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Lucic has been terrible and needs to see the press box.
Without Lucic at 5v5: 38 GF - 28 GA (+10)
With Lucic at 5v5: 7 GF - 11 GA (-4)
11 forwards have played more than 150 minutes at 5v5 for the Flames. Lucic ranks:
Goals For %: 38.1% (11th)
Expected GF%: 46.0% (11th)
High Danger Corsi: 44.8% (11th)
Shots For: 51.2% (11th)
Goals: 0 (11th)
Points: 4 (11th)
Shots: 18 (11th)
Individual Expected Goals: 1.63 (11th)
PIMS: 16 (1st - 8 minors, no majors)
He’s been our worst forward by literally every single metric.
He’s a liability defensively this year, is getting caved in when he’s on the ice, provides no offense, take too many penalties, hasn’t had a fight all year,
Time for him to eat some popcorn. If he wasnt a Sutter favourite he’d have been benched 10 games ago like Rooney.
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We discussed in the offseason that Lucic should be a player that doesn't dress every night and I expect his play to get worse as the season progresses just like last season. Problem is that I don't think Darryl scratches him this season. There seems to be some sort of dynamic where Darryl overvalues his leadership and size and doesn't want to embarrass him by putting him in the pressbox.