The Hurricanes Should Dress Patrick O'Sullivan Against The Oilers
by Derek Zona on Nov 9, 2010 10:45 AM MST
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Patrick O`Sullivan was much-maligned in Edmonton in last season, and no one was more vocal than the Edmonton Journal's Bruce McCurdy. O'Sullivan struggled last season, but some of that was J.F. Jacques and some of that was the percentages. He's not been able to crack the Hurricanes lineup with any regularity, but if coach Paul Maurice plans on playing him at all this season, he should dress him for tonight's tilt against the Oilers.
Listed below are O'Sullivan's career splits against his most common opponents
| Opponent | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PPG |
| St. Louis Blues | 12 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Edmonton Oilers | 9 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Nashville Predators | 12 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -4 | 0 | 0.750 |
| Colorado Avalanche | 18 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -5 | 6 | 0.722 |
| Columbus Blue Jackets | 14 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0.643 |
| Chicago Blackhawks | 16 | 6 | 4 | 10 | -10 | 14 | 0.625 |
| Vancouver Canucks | 16 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0.563 |
| Anaheim Ducks | 26 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 0.500 |
| Calgary Flames | 16 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -6 | 14 | 0.438 |
| Phoenix Coyotes | 20 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -7 | 10 | 0.400 |
| San Jose Sharks | 18 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -4 | 14 | 0.389 |
| Detroit Red Wings | 14 | 4 | 1 | 5 | -9 | 4 | 0.357 |
| Dallas Stars | 17 | 0 | 5 | 5 | -7 | 12 | 0.294 |
| Minnesota Wild | 19 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -9 | 6 | 0.263 |
O'Sullivan's highest goals per game rate is against the Oilers and his highest overall scoring rate comes against the Oilers and Blues at 1 point per game. If you want the kid to break out of a slump, tonight's the night.
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Derek, are you trying to curse the team? Exhibit A-Brodziak, K; Exhibit B-Torres, R; Exhibit C-Cleary, D. I know Joni, if healthy would probably have an almost equal sized bone to pick with the team, but I don’t think anyone in the league is going to want to light it up against this team, particularly this team’s management group than PO(f)S. They traded him for freakin Vandermeer to avoid the embarrassment of buying him out, letting the NHL basically do it instead, and he went from making a 7 figure salary in a hockey mad city to being on the NHL’s least-wanted list. I mean really, I think the only active player in the league (Souray doesn’t count as he is technically an active AHL player now) that might want to screw the Oilers more than POS is the hockey Jebus of long island.
That said, it would be pretty damn funny to see…
That said, it would be pretty damn funny to see…
If you are talking about Bruce’s reaction, then yes, it would be hilarious.
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yeah…if only…the look on his face would be priceless.
by Stephen Sheps on Nov 9, 2010 1:28 PM MST up reply actions
The look on my face says ...
I told you so. I’m actually quite proud of both of my stories from last season, written when I was a lowly blogger for some little known site,. The first one laid that ghastly contract on Steve Tambellini’s doorstep where it belonged, and the second laid the shitty hockey that was being played under said contract on Patrick O’Sullivan himself. In the latter, written on Dec 4, I forecast O’Sullivan’s end of season numbers to be 11-23-34, -32. Four months later, he wound up at 11-23-34, -35. Oh, oops, I was wrong … too optimistic! Suffice to say, he never improved one bit the entire time he was here.
Now he makes a sixth the money that he made last year which is a little more in line, but he’s been dumped by one team, bought out by a second, and now he can’t make the Carolina F. Hurricanes. I haven’t seen much in the year since I wrote those two pieces to change my mind, that’s for sure.
In the immortal words of Derek’s fave Petr Klima, “You need a long stick to score from the press box.”
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by Bruce McCurdy on Nov 10, 2010 11:01 PM MST up reply actions
If they would have dressed him, his stat line: 1-2-3, +4
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Well, yeah, any plumber bob can score against the leaky Oil. The ex-Oilers have been lining up to drill us. There’s already four guys in Raffi, Danny, Marty, and Kyle who are having their career best seasons at Rexall Place. :|
I notice the ex-Oilers who did dress – Cole, Samsonov, Pitkanen – all left their mark on the scoresheet last night.
It’s made me throw up my hands in exasperation and it’s made me laugh, sometimes both at once. I don’t recall ever seeing a bigger run of “XXX returns to haunt former mates” than what’s been going down vs. the Oil this early season. It’s been borderline spectacular.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Nov 10, 2010 11:26 PM MST up reply actions
I don’t recall ever seeing a bigger run of "XXX returns to haunt former mates"
Sins can be forgiven but conscience is a killer.
Seven evil exes
Torres, Reasoner, Brodziak, Cleary, Pisani, Cole, Samsonov
All have goals against the Oil this year (11 total by my count). Have I missed any? GlenX maybe?
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by Bruce McCurdy on Nov 11, 2010 11:20 AM MST up reply actions 1 recs
Isn’t part of the reason that his scoring rate against the Oilers is relatively high the fact that he’s only played the Oilers in the higher scoring portions of his career? I imagine that 2009-2010 (that is, trade deadline 2009 until the end of 2010) dragged down his scoring rate against all teams except the Oilers, since he didn’t play them even once in that span.
by sarcasticidealist on Nov 9, 2010 11:25 AM MST reply actions
If I recall correctly, a similar analysis at the time of his acquisition suggested the same results. At the time, it was an argument about whether or not GMs were more likely to overvalue or try to acquire players who lit their teams up.
I searched high and low for that post and couldn’t find it. I thought it was mc79hockey, but he said no.
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POS isn’t really playing bad or slumping he just hasn’t really been given a chance, even when they have dressed they’ve played him on the 4th line, so isn’t really getting a fair shake right now. Having said that I hope he dresses tonight.
No, POS isn’t playing especially bad or slumping, he’s just doing what he always does.
EV stats from BtN:
-0.129 QualComp
+0.154 QualTeam
0.00 G/60
0.00 A/60
0.00 P/60
1.33 GF ON/60
4.00 GA ON/60
-2.67 /60
25.3 SF/60
38.6 SA/60
72.7% OZoneStart
51.3% OZone Finish
1.3 Penalties Taken/60
0.0 Penalties Drawn/60
Sh% ON 5.0%
Sv% ON .906
PDO .956
Drat, it’s just those damn percentages again. Buddy just can’t catch a break.
But at least we’ve established that he’s not in a slump.
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by Bruce McCurdy on Nov 10, 2010 11:17 PM MST up reply actions
Maybethe reason his scoring against the Oilers is so high is because he wasn’t on a line with Coke Machines and Mini Magic Men when he played against them.
by Adam Dyck on Nov 9, 2010 4:19 PM MST via mobile reply actions
You’re trying to say the Oilers lacked forward depth? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
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