This guy has a BOMB from the point, has broken the glass numerous times at Tampa etc.........Hopefully he can help our club with some offense from up top, although he is not a shut down D man etc .Hopefully he can get a good pairing and get some confidence going early on. http://youtu.be/pntihTPvyHU
This guy has a BOMB from the point, has broken the glass numerous times at Tampa etc.........Hopefully he can help our club with some offense from up top, although he is not a shut down D man etc .Hopefully he can get a good pairing and get some confidence going early on. http://youtu.be/pntihTPvyHU
in that video Foster's D partner was Mez. curious to hear if they were paired regularly.
as everyone else here is saying he's got a real hard shot that may not always be that accurate but thats ok. according to jj and Clement he's also a good passer so i expect he'll be spending a relatively large percentage of his ice time on the pp and not necessarily getting a lot of ES time.
I hope he plays well, it'd be a good story and would certainly help the Flyers out on the PP. But I'm doubtful Foster actually corrected his balance issues after that femur injury.
He seems cool. His shot is definitely fas and accurate. Gotta see him in game action before really judging him.
Accurate if he's shooting into a soccer net.
Good luck to him, but I'd be very, very surprised if he doesn't quickly become the Flyers scapegoat. He was atrocious with NJ, sure he could score because he had a hard shot, but it was wildly inaccurate and he was really bad 5-on-5, definition of a pylon, he made Lilja look like Scott Niedermayer. Devils were awful giving up SHG primarily because of him as well, the problem was solved, for the most part, once Zidlicky was brought in.
Good luck to him, but I'd be very, very surprised if he doesn't quickly become the Flyers scapegoat. He was atrocious with NJ, sure he could score because he had a hard shot, but it was wildly inaccurate and he was really bad 5-on-5, definition of a pylon, he made Lilja look like Scott Niedermayer. Devils were awful giving up SHG primarily because of him as well, the problem was solved, for the most part, once Zidlicky was brought in.
Just curious what pairing was Foster on when he played for the Devils? And what pairing was he expected to play on when you first got him? It looks like he's been brought in to primarily as a #6, PP specialist with limited ES time.
Just curious what pairing was Foster on when he played for the Devils? And what pairing was he expected to play on when you first got him? It looks like he's been brought in to primarily as a #6, PP specialist with limited ES time.
Yes. He played the bottom pairing but it was unfortunately when we had a lot of injuries.
The limited even strength time he was dreadful. We got him for Pelley and Fraser, two guys that were scratching on a daily basis and we needed to get rid of. So there wasn't much expectations of him, except to just come in and hopefully revitalize the power play while being better than Fraser even strength. Technically, percentage-wise our PP was better, but they probably gave up just as many shorties as they scored at the new percentage. I'm not too sure how much of it was him, or the players just getting used to the PP. You have to respect his shot because it's hard, so I guess it could somewhat play into it.
I'm going to look back at a January/February game to recall who he was paired with or the injuries. Now that I've looked back, yes, he was playing primarily third pairing minutes.
I dont see how someone could screw things up too badly if he only gets a handful of minutes as sixth dman, playing against weak opposition and some PP time..
Kinda like saying a 500,000 strong army lost an entire war just cuz of one lowly grunt who under performed... How is that even possible?
Foster is not important enough to make a big diff for Flyers one way or another. He's too low on the totem pole.
