Foligno and hinostroza winning sick nasty thumb wars on the back check.
Accomplishing unprecedented levels of defensive metrics.
Give them both 2nd line minutes, double powerplay, and 5×5 NMC Billy Bigs, time meow
Foligno and hinostroza winning sick nasty thumb wars on the back check.
Accomplishing unprecedented levels of defensive metrics.
Give them both 2nd line minutes, double powerplay, and 5×5 NMC Billy Bigs, time meow
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Is that good?
Imagine getting a mediocre contract like a 4×4 and immediately making it look like shit, then having it look like even more shit every day that passes for the next 4 years. Couldn’t be Marcus. Who could have ever seen that coming?
Yeah no, no one who actually follows hockey uses plus/minus to judge a player’s defensive metrics.
By your standards, Nikita Kucherov, Jared Spurgeon, Rasmus Dahlin, Tage Thompson, Brayden Point, and many others must be WAY worse than Marcus Foligno since their +/- is worse.
Find yourself some [real defensive metrics](https://moneypuck.com/stats.htm). Moose and Hinostroza are not a problem when you sort by xGA and xSA
There were games where Foligno was the best player on the ice. And he ain’t afraid to fight. This is a man’s game. Fologno is a gem.
That said, imho he’s part of the “Old Wild”, and the Old Wild aren’t winning.
Bring in the new kids, they’re faster – this is a new era the Wild need to embrace or they’ll get embarrassed just like the NJ game. The game has changed. It’s a speed and skill game now.