[wolfgaze]

Originally Posted by Tawnos

If you never, ever, get to the front of the net, you never really build momentum. Your grinders who can't hit twine still have to create chances. Something has to happen on the ice. He has good shifts here and there, but they're more the rarity than the usual.

Besides, the refs are no harder on him this year than they ever have been in the past few years, so why can he suddenly not go to the front of the net now?

And still, his production is 60% of what we've come to expect out of Avery. How is that not "terribly off"?

Exactly...