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Is ROY meeting expectatons??????.......
Good question. I honestly do not think the Islanders are that good and even when Barry Trotz had them overachieving a few years back I did not think they were all that good. However Roy has a team with .500 talent playing .500 hockey. So
is he meeting expectations? Probably not. Is he "God awful", like he said Duclair is? I don't think so.

His comments were a bit harsh, and now that Roy has coached in NY for a while I feel like he has been emboldened by the fans' lack of toleration for poor play and poor effort. Whereas in Montreal there may be a tendency for fans to give passes to players who have poor performances and poor effort nights, NY fans are uniformly unforgiving. It's true of the NY hockey fans and the NY baseball fans. So I think Roy maybe feels emboldened to dress down a player publicly and win points with the NY fans and media, which deflects the attention off of his less than stellar coaching efforts. In the past, NY fans and media have embraced coaches like this.
 
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Roy Comments on Duclair Stimulate Story in The Athletic
Duclair asked for some time away from the team, needs to reflect on what is going on. Not a good sign at this moment, Islanders were in the chasing pack.
 

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Makar Becomes 9th NHL Defenseman With a 30 Goal Season, Joining Bobby Orr and Others:
He needs 4 more 30 goal seasons to tie Orr's record. I think Orr also has the record for points in a season by a defenseman (139) and had 6 consecutive 100 point seasons.
 
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41 goals and going, the guy is a machine.
6 games left to score 1 goal! It shouldnt be a problems!
41 goals and 27 assists for 68 points in just 60 games, having missed a bunch of games after having his leg broken earlier this year. He is on a 56 goal pace, had he played 82 games- at the age of 39! Has anyone scored 50 goals or had such a pace at age 39?

It's funny but many of Ovechkin's goals look the same to me. It looks like the Caps offense is often designed to get him the puck in open spaces usually in the faceoff circles or the high slot. He then one-times a slapshot with lightning quick release and tremendous exit velocity, as we would say in baseball. The exit velocity kings in baseball, on battled balls, are Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and Shohei Ohtani, who all hit a large number of 115 mph+ HRs. I do not know what the exit velo is measured at on the Ovechkin slapshot, buit the goalies do not react to it in a way that makes you think it's saveable.
 
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