JotCast | PHR Live Chat: 11/13/24

PHR Live Chat: 11/13/24

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Lavvy

2:54

After Mika Zibanejad's woeful performance last night vs Jets and so far, subpar season, the NY sports media is in a frenzy, what's a coach to do? Cut his minutes, take him off PP1, healthy scratch...? Didn't seem to work for Torts/Couturier.

Josh Erickson

2:56

I mean, this is kind of out of nowhere. His possession metrics have never been this bad. His relative CF% at even strength is at -6.2 – it's only been negative once before in his entire career (2020-21).

That tells me that things should turn around naturally. It's only been 14 games, after all. I'm guessing this is just a straight-up slump in his two-way play. He's been averaging 18+ minutes per game for seven years now, I'm reasonably confident he'll figure it out.

Lester

2:58

It's not a matter of "if", but "when" Columbus moves Ivan Provorov. Do you think he could fetch at least a second round draft pick? Also, the David Jiricek situation, at the time he was drafted, the word was he'd develop quickly because he was playing against men in the Czech League. This has not materialized. Could his problem be that he is not coachable? If he isn't, how long should Columbus wait before moving on?

Josh Erickson

3:00

I'm not even going to consider Jiříček's play from this season. Five games is just too small a sample size. Last year, I thought he was fine and deserved more minutes than the 14:36(!!) per night that he was getting. I get the point production didn't jump off the page, but he got NO power play time, and Columbus controlled possession with him on the ice better than without him.

3:01

I don't think it's an issue with him not being coachable. I think it's an issue of Columbus maybe trying to put a square peg in a round hole and/or simply undervaluing the metrics that support him as an effective two-way player.

And yeah, Provorov probably nets a second with half retained.

3:02

Thanks for all the great questions today, everyone! Same time next week –but timing may shift two weeks from now with it being Thanksgiving week south of the border.

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