It’s like the team HAS to have a tank commander and once we trade one, another one takes it’s place. I don’t understand how Anderson just became this bad. I know he was a 1 trick tony, but that 1 trick isn’t even close from working anymore. And most of his shots even if no one is on him just completely misses the net now.
ATNfromMTL
And people did not want to trade him for a first last year
RikNasty2Point0
How about we send him down instead of Slaf
Physical-Asparagus48
He’s been really bad this year…I almost wonder if Marty trying to round out his game has actually hurt him. He’s always been a straight line, shoot first player, and I’m not sure he has the skill set to be anything else. Now he’s not even doing the few things he does well.
jadenspan
Wow I’m shocked…
Clear_Minimum_8945
Josh Anderson was never my friend – RDS
JohnyZoom
I thought many teams were willing to trade a 1st for him but he held more value to us?!
SkuL23
Should have traded him
MashYeti
At this point, I’d be totally fine with sending him thru waivers to Laval, but ideal situation would be that he gets claimed by a team like SJ or something. He drags down his linemates and provides no benefit to the team.
antoinePucket
I was never impressed with Anderson’s hockey senses since day 1. The Drouin-Suzuki-Anderson line was horrendous and in hindsight, I feel so bad for Nick lol
People ‘thought’ Nick was hitting his sophomore slump, but it turns out this is what happens when you put 2 deadweights with him.
By no surprise, Suzuki popped off at the end of that year by centering Toffoli and Caufield instead.
radhorrorfan
What the hell happened to this guy
JacquesEvans
I’m pretty confident that he’ll turn it around and get back to 40 point pace (3rd line guy), has many many chances. But struggling right now
Cipher_A
The weird thing is that he had a great pre-season where he looked exactly like the effective player he was at the end of last season.
I wonder if putting him with Suzuki and Caufield to start the season didn’t hurt him more than help him. We already knew that their styles clashed and the longer he stayed with them the longer all of them failed to produce.
Then we put him with Newhook-Slaf, first on the left, then on the right. That line looked good for all of one game. They lacked a playmaker and a real center. Anderson lacked finish on that one game, but I think it was clear during the other games that they struggled to generate concrete chances because of other collective shortcomings, like lack of balance on the ice. If you watched them at all, they had 110% effort, but effort like those super bouncy balls that bounce all over the place uncontrollably and unpredictably. That was never going to work without someone with poise like Dach or Monahan to balance things out.
Now he’s with Newhook and Dvo. Dvo’s a natural center who’s coming back from a long period of not playing. It might take a while for him to ramp up. Newhook needs to get used to playing wing again. And Anderson’s been unproductive long enough that it’s probably weighing on him now. So it might take a couple of games for them to gel, and it won’t be a better look.
So to me, it’s not necessarily as grim as people make it to be. He’s had games where he generated a lot of chances, although his last two games specifically have been off, but so has the rest of the team. Looking outside of that, he’s been physical and using his speed to draw penalties and try to help the team while he tries to get going.
Should he be on PP1? Maybe not. Nothing he can do about that.
I’m not excusing his lack of production, it’s pretty terrible, but I just want to try to find an explanation for why this is happening.
I think Anderson isn’t the type of guy that can complement his linemates’ game, so he absolutely needs linemates that complement his play (with playmaking, poise, simple plays, good work along the boards).
Does that make him a bad player? Depends on your definition of bad player. If he becomes a good player when he has the right combination of linemates, then is he still bad to you? He’s a specific tool that you have to use in the right conditions. You know the saying, if you’ve got a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Anderson is a hammer. Not everything is a nail.
I would give him some time with Newhook and Dvo. Let all three of them adapt. Just getting a goal would help him a lot.
He hasn’t forgotten how to play hockey, I think we just haven’t been using him right.
Surge-z
Anderson is a perfect player for a playoff team, he will find a way to rebound
Captain_Naps
New advanced stat- JALE% (Josh Anderson Lowered-Expectations Percentage)
antrage
Anderson is in a particular type of funk even for him. I wonder if just putting him in the fourth line with more gritty presence forwards and asking him to crash block the net is a better option for him?
eskimobootycall
I said this earlier in the season, he just doesn’t make anyone around him better. On-top of that he isn’t doing anything himself either.
BC-clette
Started paying attention to his play a week ago. Every time this man gets the puck he takes 3-4 strides and then the puck explodes off his stick in a random direction. Often directly into the possession of an opposing player who then springs a breakaway. His zone entries fail. His passing is terrible. His shots on net are directly at the goalie’s chest. WTF happened?
Ok-Sprinkles1644
Anderson gets a lot of chances because he creates them with his speed and hard work , maybe he should be on a third line , but his finishing will come . More than you can say for the other guys not producing .
Immediate_Gap_8130
Yeah he’s terrible. He has no vision, cannot play. He just skates straight back and forth. He’s overpaid.
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The new tank commander ?
Has wheels but literally nothing else
It’s like the team HAS to have a tank commander and once we trade one, another one takes it’s place. I don’t understand how Anderson just became this bad. I know he was a 1 trick tony, but that 1 trick isn’t even close from working anymore. And most of his shots even if no one is on him just completely misses the net now.
And people did not want to trade him for a first last year
How about we send him down instead of Slaf
He’s been really bad this year…I almost wonder if Marty trying to round out his game has actually hurt him. He’s always been a straight line, shoot first player, and I’m not sure he has the skill set to be anything else. Now he’s not even doing the few things he does well.
Wow I’m shocked…
Josh Anderson was never my friend – RDS
I thought many teams were willing to trade a 1st for him but he held more value to us?!
Should have traded him
At this point, I’d be totally fine with sending him thru waivers to Laval, but ideal situation would be that he gets claimed by a team like SJ or something. He drags down his linemates and provides no benefit to the team.
I was never impressed with Anderson’s hockey senses since day 1.
The Drouin-Suzuki-Anderson line was horrendous and in hindsight, I feel so bad for Nick lol
People ‘thought’ Nick was hitting his sophomore slump, but it turns out this is what happens when you put 2 deadweights with him.
By no surprise, Suzuki popped off at the end of that year by centering Toffoli and Caufield instead.
What the hell happened to this guy
I’m pretty confident that he’ll turn it around and get back to 40 point pace (3rd line guy), has many many chances. But struggling right now
The weird thing is that he had a great pre-season where he looked exactly like the effective player he was at the end of last season.
I wonder if putting him with Suzuki and Caufield to start the season didn’t hurt him more than help him. We already knew that their styles clashed and the longer he stayed with them the longer all of them failed to produce.
Then we put him with Newhook-Slaf, first on the left, then on the right. That line looked good for all of one game. They lacked a playmaker and a real center. Anderson lacked finish on that one game, but I think it was clear during the other games that they struggled to generate concrete chances because of other collective shortcomings, like lack of balance on the ice. If you watched them at all, they had 110% effort, but effort like those super bouncy balls that bounce all over the place uncontrollably and unpredictably. That was never going to work without someone with poise like Dach or Monahan to balance things out.
Now he’s with Newhook and Dvo. Dvo’s a natural center who’s coming back from a long period of not playing. It might take a while for him to ramp up. Newhook needs to get used to playing wing again. And Anderson’s been unproductive long enough that it’s probably weighing on him now. So it might take a couple of games for them to gel, and it won’t be a better look.
So to me, it’s not necessarily as grim as people make it to be. He’s had games where he generated a lot of chances, although his last two games specifically have been off, but so has the rest of the team. Looking outside of that, he’s been physical and using his speed to draw penalties and try to help the team while he tries to get going.
Should he be on PP1? Maybe not. Nothing he can do about that.
I’m not excusing his lack of production, it’s pretty terrible, but I just want to try to find an explanation for why this is happening.
I think Anderson isn’t the type of guy that can complement his linemates’ game, so he absolutely needs linemates that complement his play (with playmaking, poise, simple plays, good work along the boards).
Does that make him a bad player? Depends on your definition of bad player. If he becomes a good player when he has the right combination of linemates, then is he still bad to you? He’s a specific tool that you have to use in the right conditions. You know the saying, if you’ve got a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Anderson is a hammer. Not everything is a nail.
I would give him some time with Newhook and Dvo. Let all three of them adapt. Just getting a goal would help him a lot.
He hasn’t forgotten how to play hockey, I think we just haven’t been using him right.
Anderson is a perfect player for a playoff team, he will find a way to rebound
New advanced stat- JALE% (Josh Anderson Lowered-Expectations Percentage)
Anderson is in a particular type of funk even for him. I wonder if just putting him in the fourth line with more gritty presence forwards and asking him to crash block the net is a better option for him?
I said this earlier in the season, he just doesn’t make anyone around him better. On-top of that he isn’t doing anything himself either.
Started paying attention to his play a week ago. Every time this man gets the puck he takes 3-4 strides and then the puck explodes off his stick in a random direction. Often directly into the possession of an opposing player who then springs a breakaway. His zone entries fail. His passing is terrible. His shots on net are directly at the goalie’s chest. WTF happened?
Anderson gets a lot of chances because he creates them with his speed and hard work , maybe he should be on a third line , but his finishing will come .
More than you can say for the other guys not producing .
Yeah he’s terrible. He has no vision, cannot play. He just skates straight back and forth. He’s overpaid.