The first month of the new year of the overseas NHL brought great performances as well as a point series of several hockey players, but there were also those who significantly fell short of expectations.
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Zdeno Chára (33) in NY Islanders jersey.
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The Athletic sports website put together one whole team of players who, according to its editors, did not convince about their qualities at the beginning of the season.
He added Linus Ullmark from the Boston Bruins and Philipp Grubauer from the newcomer Seattle Kraken to the goal in this team.
The first defensive pair of the biggest disappointments so far are Jakob Chychrun from Arizona Coyotes and Alex Pietrangelo from Vegas Golden Knights.
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In the third defensive pair, a place was also found for the Slovak Zden Chára. The respected back returned to the New York Islanders after 20 years and scored two assists, 27 penalty minutes and three minus points in the first fifteen games of the season.
“It is challenging to have specific expectations from a 44-year-old player in his 24th season in the NHL.
We would probably all get involved in the irresistible story of a player who returned to his first team in the NHL after two decades of dominating the game.
The truth is that Chara doesn’t look good yet. Time is running out for each of us, but hopefully one more season awaits him before he finally finds himself in the selection for the Hall of Fame, “the editors of theathletic.com wrote.
As for the strikers, the trio Elias Pettersson of the Vancouver Canucks, Cole Caufield of the Montreal Canadiens and Kirill Kaprizov of the Minnesota Wild were disappointed in the first formation.
This selection corresponded to the period up to mid-November, but some players, such as Rus Kaprizov, have already started in points.
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However, this is not the case with the Swede Pettersson, who scored only three goals in 19 games of the current season and that plays all Canucks power-ups.
“Pettersson is not doing well yet and so is Vancouver. The question is whether Pettersson is the cause of the weak play of the whole team or the big mess in the Vancouver game is the reason for Pettersson’s poor presentation, “asks The Athletic.
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