IT JUST GOT WORSE FOR THE CANUCKS & RED WINGS: BROCK BOESER & JT COMPHER

IT JUST GOT WORSE FOR THE CANUCKS & RED WINGS: BROCK BOESER & JT COMPHER

This right here, this is what I’ve been saying, man. And now, because there’s a chart that’s posted that aligns with my viewpoint here, we’re going to go out there and make this video and talk about these two players because it’s not looking good for the Red Wings and the Vancouver Conucks. when you analyze these two players and this particular angle of NHL play. Let’s go over onto JFresh’s Twitter account because he made this post earlier in the week talking about NHL forwards who don’t do stuff. Now, I get it. That’s a really weird way to put it, but let’s read the post to understand what a fresh means. One of the most popular insults in hockey is quote unquote cardio merchant players who don’t seem to do a lot of stuff when they’re on the ice. It’s pretty vibes-based, but just for fun, I decided to use all three zones in NHL’s data to find the players with the least stuff per 60 at 5v5 in 2024 2025. This list compiles players forwards in the NHL with their shots and passes, transition plays, offensive zone puck recoveries, defensive zone puck touches, hits, for checks, takeaways, blocks, penalties taken, and penalties drawn. A lot of stuff in the game of hockey on the puck and off the puck. And when it comes to the forwards that were the worst at doing stuff in the NHL, you’ve got JT Comfort right there at the top. 51.8 average stuff that he does per 60 minutes, which is one of only five forwards in the NHL this year who had fewer than 60 things done per 60 minutes at 5v5. So for JT Confer specifically, for every hour that he plays, he doesn’t do stuff for about 8 minutes or so because his ranking is 51.8. It’s really interesting to see how he doesn’t do stuff. But if you scroll down, you will see some other names that are interesting here, like one Brock Besser, who’s ranked 17th overall. Now, sure, 17th on a 30 player list isn’t bad, but 17th overall in the entire NHL out of all the forwards in the league, I would say that’s reasonably bad. And that’s not even to discredit what this stat really means. It’s not saying, oh, how many goals do you score? How many assists are you able to get? It’s just saying, hey, here’s the stuff that you do. Brock Besser, for example, if you look at his chart, he doesn’t really draw any penalties. He doesn’t really take any penalties. He doesn’t really recover the puck in the offensive zone, nor does he contribute too much on the transitions. It’s just a matter of whether or not the limited shots that you do take and the passes that you do make end up in points, goals, or assists. Which is why there are some guys on this list that are very productive. Dmitri Veronov is the second least stuffed per 60 guy in the NHL this year. And that guy was a monster. Came out of nowhere and all of a sudden he’s a firstline player for the Columbus Blue Jackets. There were some other guys that you could say are reasonably productive for their roles. Cory Perry, Arturio Lechin, Zack Heyman, Adam Goddet, Gabe Valardi. There are a number of guys here who are good hockey players who produce. But for a guy like Brock Besser, for example, to just be in that spot, and don’t worry, we’re going to refer back to JT Coner in a second here, but for Brock Besser to be here, it does start to get me thinking about what it is that he’s capable of bringing to the NHL lineup in Vancouver, especially without JT Miller. We’ve noted this a few times of Besser. He’s worked on his defensive game. He has worked on his passing, his playmaking. Those have really refined themselves over the years. He came into the NHL as a pure on the rush sniper, a guy who could bury it from anywhere. He doesn’t really do that much nowadays. His 40 goal season last year, he got a lot of those goals in front of the net, rebounds, tip-ins, and cleanup crew type goals. Getting set up by JT Miller on the flank with a back door open net type goals. He was not really a guy who displayed the same longer range sniping ability that he did in his prior few seasons. And that’s okay. He evolved as a goal scorer. He had his best season goal-wise as a member of the Vancouver Conucks. But around his game, he wasn’t really the fastest. He’s not really a guy who draws a lot of penalties and he’s not really somebody that has the strongest physical impact. Now, Besser is smart defensively. We’ll give that to him. and he puts himself in the right spots and he knows how to battle along the boards. But just looking at some of these statistics, takeaways and blocks, Brock doesn’t really do that too well. And then offensive zone puck recoveries, that’s a pretty low mark as well. The guy has 2.1 of those per 60 minutes. And he doesn’t really touch the puck much as well. If you wanted to go out there and look at the positive guys that are doing the most in the NHL, hey, guess what? Kefir Sherwood is the most productive forward in the NHL at doing stuff, particularly carried by his 32 hits per 60 minutes, but ultimately that is a different metric entirely. You can see that some of these other guys, I mean, defensive zone puck touches, there are a lot of players here who double Brock Besser. Offensive zone puck recoveries, there are a lot of people here who double Brock Besser. And it just goes to show you how odd it is that Brock is in this spot where after a 25 goal year where he was particularly disappointing, it seems like the pay raise that he’s going to get is going to go all the way to $8 something million. It just doesn’t feel right in my opinion. My ultimate argument here is that Brock Besser is probably going to be in a spot to get overpaid this summer. And if the Vancouver Conucks are not the ones doing it, you can start to understand why fans are a little bit more okay with the idea that he gets that money somewhere else. Now, of course, ideally, you would have wanted to see Vancouver trade him away and get some assets in return, but we don’t live in a perfect world now, don’t we? Especially if you’re a Vancouver Conucks hockey fan. Meanwhile, let’s go back over onto the Detroit Red Wings and their conversation with JT Comfort because a lot of Wings fans have been responding to this list in particular with a decent amount of concern. Medieval Walrus said this Christ Steve Money and term for a guy in comfort that doesn’t pass the eye test, doesn’t put up counting stats, and a guy that advanced stats hate too. Will he also be expiring by the time we’re ready to win? Most line projections have him as an expensive 4C for three more years. He’s listed as a left wing on our roster. Does this make him a good fourthline center or a fourthline left winger? Overpaid for sure, but our bottom six, depth scoring, and penalty kill all sucked. Is he a good fourthline center? He was on our first PK this year. That unit was last in the NHL. Another reply goes out there and says when Confer was signed from Colorado, he was a second or third line center on a cup winning team that even played some one center line minutes at times in a pinch. His game has devolved significantly since coming to Detroit. And that does get a lot more concerning when you just look at the numbers, you look at the dollar amount. JT Comfort is 20, no 30 years old, making $5.1 million a year till the end of 2027 2028. And this season, he had 32 points in 76 games. Just 2 years ago, he had 52 points in 82 games as a member of the Colorado Avalanche. 50 points as a center. Middle six, top six kind of guy. That’s reasonable for 5.1 mil. But only 30 points. He’s now playing in the bottom of the lineup. That is not great. And now you’ve got folks going out there and saying that yeah, JT Comfort not really playing the best. You want to see more out of these players. They’re clock killers. That’s what Ken Holland would put them. They don’t do anything positive or negative on the ice. They’re a wash, invisible. They don’t do anything that makes you say, “Wow, what a great play.” Or, “Wow, what a terrible play.” They’re a dead roster spot. And it all comes full circle when you look at this comment here made by Double Jack. I’ve been on the sign Besser bandwagon, but now I’m having second thoughts. It’s a move that would either pay off and make Eerman look like a genius or it would blow up in his face like the comp for signing. Also, this explains at least in part why the Wild are not high on Rossi. He’s not a player we should be interested in. So, huh, that’s a really interesting thought. how Brock Besser is so not doing stuff that it might be even worse in Detroit. Huh. I’m starting to wonder if that actually would be more of a critical thought that we need to analyze. But for now, I want you to let me know your thoughts in the comment section below about how it’s not looking good for these two Red Wings and Kucks forwards. Comfort and Besser both listed on the players who are doing the least stuff list. And we didn’t even mention Yonathan Bergen who was also on this list too. Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below about these two players getting this assessment by the NHL fantasy stats and whether or not you think it’s fair or actually indicative of the play they bring to the ice. Let me know in the comments section all your thoughts. I hope you enjoyed this video 9 and bye.

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We’re going over the latest on Vancouver Canucks forward Brock Boeser, and Detroit Red Wings forward JT Compher, and how they were both ranked as some of the worst forwards in the NHL in terms of “doing stuff” per 60.

This video is taking place after the 2024 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The 2024 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:

1st) San Jose Sharks, Macklin Celebrini
2nd) Chicago Blackhawks, Artyom Levshunov
3rd) Anaheim Ducks, Beckett Sennecke
4th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Cayden Lindstrom,
5th) Montreal Canadiens, Ivan Demidov
6th) Utah Hockey Club, Tij Iginla
7th) Ottawa Senators, Carter Yakemchuk
8th) Seattle Kraken, Berkly Catton
9th) Calgary Flames, Zayne Parekh
10th) New Jersey Devils, Anton Silayev
11th) San Jose Sharks (from Buffalo Sabres), Sam Dickinson
12th) Minnesota Wild (from Philadelphia Flyers), Zeev Buium
13th) Philadelphia Flyers (from Minnesota Wild), Jett Luchanko
14th) Buffalo Sabres (from Pittsburgh Penguins via San Jose Sharks), Konsta Helenius
15th) Detroit Red Wings, Michael Brandsegg-Nygard
16th) St. Louis Blues, Adam Jiricek
17th) Washington Capitals, Terik Parascak
18th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Sacha Boisvert
19th) Vegas Golden Knights, Trevor Connelly
20th) New York Islanders (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Chicago Blackhawks), Cole Eiserman
21st) Montreal Canadiens (from Los Angeles Kings), Michael Hage
22nd) Nashville Predators, Yegor Surin
23rd) Anaheim Ducks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Stian Solberg
24th) Utah Hockey Club (from Colorado Avalanche), Cole Beaudoin
25th) Boston Bruins (from Boston Bruins via Detroit Red Wings and Ottawa Senators), Dean Letourneau
26th) Los Angeles Kings (from Winnipeg Jets via Montreal Canadiens), Liam Greentree
27th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Carolina Hurricanes), Marek Vanacker
28th) Calgary Flames (from Vancouver Canucks), Matvei Gridin
29th) Dallas Stars, Emil Hemming
30th) New York Rangers, EJ Emery
31st) Toronto Maple Leafs (from Edmonton Oilers via Anaheim Ducks), Ben Danford
32nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Florida Panthers via Philadelphia Flyers), Sam O’Reilly

This video is also taking place after 2024 NHL Season, and after the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the Finals.

Brock Boeser was one of the top NHL prospects at the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.

The 2015 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The Top 27 of the draft went as follows:

1st – Edmonton Oilers, Connor McDavid
2nd – Buffalo Sabres, Jack Eichel
3rd – Arizona Coyotes, Dylan Strome
4th – Toronto Maple Leafs, Mitch Marner
5th – Carolina Hurricanes, Noah Hanifin
6th – New Jersey Devils, Pavel Zacha
7th – Philadelphia Flyers, Ivan Provorov
8th – Columbus Blue Jackets, Zach Werenski
9th – San Jose Sharks, Timo Meier
10th – Colorado Avalanche, Mikko Rantanen
11th – Florida Panthers, Lawson Crouse
12th – Dallas Stars, Denis Gurianov
13th – Boston Bruins (from Los Angeles Kings), Jakub Zboril
14th – Boston Bruins, Jake DeBrusk
15th – Boston Bruins (from Calgary Flames), Zachary Senyshyn
16th – New York Islanders (from Pittsburgh Penguins via Edmonton Oilers), Mathew Barzal
17th – Winnipeg Jets, Kyle Connor
18th – Ottawa Senators, Thomas Chabot
19th – Detroit Red Wings, Evgeny Svechnikov
20th – Minnesota Wild, Joel Eriksson Ek
21st – Ottawa Senators (from New York Islanders via Buffalo Sabres), Colin White
22nd – Washington Capitals, Ilya Samsonov
23rd – Vancouver Canucks, Brock Boeser
24th – Philadelphia Flyers (from Nashville Predators via Toronto Maple Leafs), Travis Konecny
25th – Winnipeg Jets (from St. Louis Blues via Buffalo Sabres), Jack Roslovic
26th – Montreal Canadiens, Noah Juulsen
27th – Anaheim Ducks, Jacob Larsson

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