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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
TBH the underlying stats had shown it too, the puck just wasn't going in the net.
He had been generating chances for much of that 12 game pointless streak, puck just went in the last two games for him.
His team rank over those 14 games:
Corsi %: 55.6% (1st)
Scoring Chances %: 55.1% (1st)
High Danger %: 54.3% (3rd)
Expected Goals %: 53.7% (3rd)
Scoring Chances For: 103 (1st)
High Danger For: 44 (1st)
Expected Goals For: 9.38 (1st)
Hopefully he keeps it up but he's been creating chances on the ice at 5v5 for pretty much the entire 12 game pointless streak and the last 2 games now where he has points.
He's paid for production so the puck has to go in, but even during the pointless streak there were signs the offensive play was coming.
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Kind of like how Kadri's start to the season went, no?
Strong play without much in the way of results - but then things started to click.
I'm still a Huberdeau fan. The fact that he's just putting in the work and keeping his head down (not that there's much else to do), I hope it starts to click. Would like to see him and Shaggy develop some team-impacting chemistry as things go forward.