In Wednesday's loss to Colorado a goal , Patrick Kane extended his personal scoring streak of three games . This is a modest one of the NHL 's campaign the most talented offensive player, a player who had 12 games and scored 14 runs earlier in the season . But it 's highly welcome news , because it is the first sign that he has destroyed the second half of the season slump may be coming to an end.
Kane since the halfway point of the season gone three games scoring run . It is December 28 , in this group of 14 consecutive games with at least one point in the final contest .
How bad it ? The reason is simple , there is no comparability between Kane 's two seasons segments:
This is an incredible drop. Kane has gone from scoring 46 goals , 106 points down to a speed of 21 goals, 48 points pace , but before that, we entered what had happened, his positive / negative . This is the difference between a mediocre team all-star and second-line between the forward and as Stanley Cup contenders such as Chicago , this is a deeply disturbing transition.
So what happened ? This is a problem even strength or power issues play ? Chart Kane goals, assists and points per hour across the board in every discipline extends indicate trouble :
When asked for his production fell a few weeks ago by the NHL.com Brian Hedger, Kane was dismissive . He told Hedger , he is very excited about his game , how he can improve it down the stretch . He further suggested that this is naturally more difficult to score this season :
We are now at the point where it is difficult to just brush off Kane difficulties.
It is true that some problems falls on shooting , a highly variable statistics. Kane has had ups and downs in his career, but on average, he has a 11.7 shooting percentage . Earlier this year, he is significantly more than this number ( 23 goals in 137 shots , 16.8 shooting percentage ) , and most recently , he has been on things ( six goals in 76 shots, 7.9 shooting percentage ) on the other side. This happens in the course of a season , if Kane recent shooting slump is just a drop in the result, we will wield it away. However, this is not to say that the only thing happening here .
Kane assisted production declined , both in five -on-five and power play . Blackhawks ' goal , and the goal against Total when he on the ice, even in strength. Chicago Corsi rating , Kane take opposite shot attempts of the opposition needs to shoot ice attempts Blackhawks , is reduced.
Some of these problems are of the team . Black Hawk is a little shooting in the fall , even though both the strength and the power play , which cut production of each person :
A personal shooting slump means fewer goals. Shooting range within a team means that everyone fell less assists.
Does this explain Kane 's team wide slump collapse ? It explains part of it , but not nearly all . Power play goal was down more than 50% in an hour , but production fell by nearly two-thirds of Kane . At even strength , the gap is even greater ; Chicago 's goal has fallen off by 25 %, but Kane 's point production fell by more than 50 %.
There is another problem , too : the difficulties resulting from the separation effect . It's possible that the power play is struggling , so hurt Kane's numbers, but it is also possible that the struggle is what Kane ailing power play . This is especially so because the time at the ice Kane advantage of people in Chicago . The same is true ( although to a lesser extent ) in the even strength.
In many cases , a player 's personal struggles can be traced to something beyond their control . Shooting up and down volatility in the team and individual level, it can use a player's individual statistics severely damaged . It simply does not cut it as an explanation. Linemates factors also did not like the drop down is simply too big , not chalk to external factors.
Kane's play is slipping , not good.
cheap Blackhawks jersey have from now until end of the season to figure out what the problem is and correct it . West is simply too competitive to win with Patrick Kane Chicago tried Chris Versteeg impression.
