DK’s Daily Shot of Penguins: Trade Jarry? Why?

DK’s Daily Shot of Penguins: Trade Jarry? Why?

[Music] Tristan Jarry has an 863 save percentage. But wait, there’s more to that context. A lot more. Morning to you. Good Wednesday morning. I’m Dan Kvachovic of DK Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Penguins. It comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you’re into football andor baseball, I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Pirates in the same place that you found this. Before you freak out, yes, I know Jar’s actual save percentage, is 911, which is good for 11th in the NHL among qualified goalenders. But the 863, a wholly different figure, is the one that leaps out for me. That’s his save percentage against high danger shots. And I’m going to explain what a high danger shot is cuz I think there’s a lot of misconception about that whenever the subject arises. It’s not, oddly enough, Alexander Ovetchkin firing a one-time from the left dot. Although there’s a lot of danger involved in that, the way this specific statistic is compiled, it’s based on nothing other than a certain location on the ice. And we’re talking blue paint and a few feet forward. In the hockey dialogue, that would be your low slot. And the nice thing about the statistic being summarized that way is that it takes all of the subjectivity out of it because whether it’s Ovetkin shooting from that left dot or Nolachari shooting from that left dot, all that stuff goes out the window. Plain and simple. Spot on the ice. 863 save percentage. Fifth best in the National Hockey League among qualified goalenders. Number five in the entire league. And yeah, I know I’ve been singing about the guy for a while. And I also know that there’s a pretty big chunk of the fan base that still doesn’t want to hear it. They feel like this is another of those situations where they’re going to go running up to the football and Lucy’s going to pull it away and they’re going to feel stupid and that within a month Jarry will be back riding buses in the AHL on yet another permanent exile and that Kyle Dubis will have blown his window into trading Jarry to whoever Montreal, Edmonton, any team that’s got some skill to it but is lacking goalending, they’re going to come up. And if you want to know something, if Jarry had not gone through the first quarter of this season looking the way he did when he returned from the miners in the last quarter of last season, I’d be right there. I’d be right there. I I’d still be in the mode of just ditch the contract, just bury him, get rid of him. But I’m not. And I don’t feel like I’ve changed my mind. I feel like he’s changed who he is both on and he’ll tell you this himself and off the ice as well. He’s grown up. He’s 30. Had a kid. First kid this past April. Loving life. Smiles all the time. Outgoing, chatty, not shy. You can see some of this on the rink as well. There’s more spirit. There’s more animation to his conduct and communication out there. It happens. Who among us hasn’t experienced some kind of maturity? I I get it. Some of us more than most, but some We’ve all been there. Somebody wrote to me yesterday how impressive it was to see the angry Jarry at work. And and I was like, angry? No, I think it’s the other way around. Dude’s just happy all the time now. And if I had to guess, and there’s nothing more dangerous than trying to get inside a goalender’s head, but I would think that there was a certain stage of his career slash life where he realized, man, giving up that goal that I just gave up, that’s not the end of my world, much less the end of civilization or however it was that I was taking it before. He just gives up a goal and he keeps playing, keeps battling, keeps fighting. One of my favorite things about Jarry’s play, and this really applies over the past couple of weeks more than any other time in this season, is he has been relentless. He’s been the one who’s outfought the people trying to score on him. Watch him compete. That wasn’t always the case. Watch him make that first save and then bounce back up. And I mean bounce to the point where you don’t even see it happening. Watch how he strives and pushes to make sure that he’s seeing a shot that’s coming in from the point. He was never doing that before. It was one of my biggest knocks against him. And those of you who’ve been with me for a while will recall it. He wasn’t trying to find the puck. You got to work to do that. You got to do the Alex Adelkovich stuff to do that. You got to want it more than the people that are trying to score on you. So, do you want to trade this player because of something that you thought last year or something that seemed to make a whole lot of sense before there was a a whole new mountain of evidence in front of you? Why? Why? This is the perfect goalender to have around here in this scenario. First and foremost, he wants to be here. He never held a grudge against the Penguins. In fact, when he came up, he went out of his way to say, “All I want is to succeed in Pittsburgh.” He sees that as his success, kind of in the same mold to what happened with Mark Andre Flurry. Flower didn’t want to win somewhere else. He wanted to do it here. He wanted to win everyone back on his side, which he did. You had a model teammate. On top of that in Philadelphia, when Jari was asked about the goalending that the Penguins have put together, he said on his own, I feel like me and Arty have done a great job. He went out of his way to include Arur Sheils despite what’s happened to Sheilovs in particular over his past couple of starts. He did that. So when Sergey Murishov does make that next step, whenever that might be, when he does get to the NHL and there’s some sort of sharing of the crease that inevitably has to occur, this is who you’d want. This is what you’d want. By the way, just for fun, one NHL goalender who has a higher safe percentage against high danger shots or a shot 875. When we come back, J1Q’s [Music] J1Q comes from Cody who says, “DK, this organization in this season feels different to me. I think this is not only sustainable, but also that it has room to grow even further. It feels like a culture or an identity is being born and Kyle Dubis’ vision has never looked more clear or beautiful than it does right now. Do you also feel it or am I crazy? Well, Cody, I wouldn’t want to be the first to suggest that you’re not crazy given your rapidity for this particular sport as you’ve shared with our community for quite some time now. I will say that I’m not there and I know that’s not going to be the popular answer because everybody’s really feeling it after Philly that was just so thorough and you had on top of everything else Dubis and Dan Muse accident or not and I don’t believe that it was an accident calling up Boo Imama to play in Philly dressing Connor Clifton to play in Philly. And let’s not kid anybody here. Hockeyy’s changed a lot, but it hasn’t changed that much. And when those types of scenarios arise, whether it’s Pittsburgh versus Philadelphia or anywhere in the sport, we do perk up. We do pay closer attention. and the Penguins from those guys to Ben Kindle not backing down from Shan Couturier who was clearly trying to either rough him up or intimidate him or whatever that was down behind the Pittsburgh Net the one time to Parker Wtherspoon showing everybody yet again that he’s really he’s made of some serious sandpaper. That’s that’s stuff that feels very very different than the way it was before. And that of course makes you think of Muse probably first and foremost because you weren’t going to get that stuff ever from Mike Sullivan. Just doesn’t believe in it. I’ve always liked it. I’ve always valued it. I’ve always felt that it’s a meaningful component to participating in the most meaningful games. So why am I hesitating? Why am I backing off? I I’ve got a couple things for you on this, Cody. One is there is still too much, way too much of this team’s productivity that comes from the same people. And by the same people, I mean the same people who’ve been doing it for two decades. If you’re not getting it from Sydney Crosby, you’re not getting it from Afghani Malcin, you’re not getting it for the most part. And on that front alone, I can tell you that I felt more of what you’re describing that you’re feeling now all the way back to opening night at Madison Square Garden. That was an entire team effort. That was between that game and the few that followed. A team level contribution to the offense. You were getting goals from all over. It wasn’t just Justin Brazo coming out of nowhere. Everybody was pitching in. That has to happen. Two, the young players need to rise up. I keep talking about those parallel tracks, the development over here, the playoffs over here, side by side, moving in the same direction. Well, they are. They’re not necessarily moving at the same speed. And I don’t know that it would have been fair to suggest that they should. If anything, there’s already been a bonus blessing with everything that Kindle’s done. Now, could I get greedy and say, “Wow, it’d be wonderful if it was Kindle and Rucker McGuerty and Vill Coovenan, all three of whom happen to be on the same line at the moment.” That’s uplifting stuff. Go ahead and pop a couple goals. Make yourselves real. Make yourselves at home. But now, let’s see a Tristan Bros or a Sam Pulan or an Avery Hayes get here and be the ones who fill up your fourth line or maybe even push themselves into contention for a top six spot the way both McGory and Koan appeared poised to do late last season. Let’s get some young mobile defenseman into the mix. I would love if Harrison Brunick had achieved the same status as quickly as Kindle did and been contributing all along. That’d be wonderful. Apparently not all that realistic. I would love if Owen Pickering hadn’t been bounced right back to the AHL. Meaning I would love if he’d performed better. He didn’t. There was no way he was going to hang around, especially after what happened in Winnipeg. So I I I guess I want to see those trains moving at the same speed. my man. That That’s where I am. And that’s not to be negative. I I spend most of these shows these days complimenting exactly what you’re complimenting, but I I’m not ready to go the full Cody here and start writing poetry over it. I’m just teasing you. I appreciate hearing from you. I appreciate everybody who listens to Daily Shot of Penguins. We’ll be back with another one of these tomorrow when I’ll be in Tampa, Florida covering penguins versus lightning and reporting back to you right here. [Music]

Trade Tristan Jarry away? Wow, why?

#Pittsburgh #Penguins #LetsGoPens #NHL #DKPS

Hear award-winning reporter Dejan Kovacevic’s Daily Shot of Penguins podcast every weekday morning!

SUBSCRIBE TO CHANNEL ►https://www.youtube.com/@DKPS_Penguins?sub_confirmation=1

MEMBERSHIP TO CHANNEL ► https://www.youtube.com/@DKPS_Penguins/join

OUR APPS ► https://DKPS.net/apple | https://DKPS.net/android

OUR WEBSITE ► http://www.DKPittsburghSports.com

ABOUT US ► DK Pittsburgh Sports is the proud, pioneering, fully independent venture begun in 2014 by award-winning reporter Dejan Kovacevic and featuring a professional staff covering the Penguins year-round and everywhere they go! This is where it all started!