Nolan Patrick

Shane Wright all the way to the left.

Only Nolan Patrick and Jesperi Kotkaniemi getting less ice time his first full season.

But having a higher expected goal share than random people who you've never heard of, like-

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Like, like it's, it's hard to get up there.

Um, one of the things that I noticed when, with looking at this, um, is some of the names with him when it comes to the ice time.

It, mainly Nolan Patrick and Jesperi Kotkaniemi.

And Nolan Patrick, uh, injuries definitely played a role in it for him, of course.

Now we gotta create a Seeler spot because Bohm looks that good, yeah

... like, whether it would be trading or moving Cates to the wing and trading a winger, like, Jet Lucchenko making this team creates the, "Well, Nolan Patrick's gonna make the team, so we gotta trade Braden Schenn" situation.

Right, right.

Yeah, and the other thing, too, that you have to remember in these, is, is we can forget this because we're not, no one's rooting for these things to happen.

And then, fine, I would just love to know if he did that on purpose.

And last guy I wanna talk about is Nolan Patrick.

And I'll just never forget the 2017 draft party.

Uh, it was our first year.

It was our first one.

It was electric.

The place was so hopped up for Nolan Patrick.

Who could have known it just wasn't going to work? But we were hopeful.

You're getting it tomorrow."

We learned this during Nolan Patrick's draft process.

Um, like, the core muscle sports hernia guy is, like, at the Navy Yard.

Yeah.

And remember, like, it was totally misdiagnosed for Nolan Patrick for, like, three times in Canada, and then they figure it out here 'cause we have the specialists.

So hopefully all is well with, uh, Luchenco.

Another dude I am looking forward to seeing how he progresses with the Phantoms.

With the exception of it being like, you know, Ryan Ellis and some shit.

Nolan Patrick.

Yeah.

Yeah, you probably could.

What do you get out of that? Nothing.

That is a total objective failure on every fucking front.

And there are people to this day, 10 years later, still blame Nolan Patrick for shit.

Well, if Nolan Patrick panned out, we would have been fine.

We moved up to 2nd.

where we drafted Nolan Patrick.

Oh, my God.

If

He only got...

The only players who got less ice time, however, in that first year are Jesperi Kokaniemi and Nolan Patrick.

Now...

You can talk about his deployment and, you know, we can look at this, run this exercise again with strength of competition.

And maybe.

Uh, like, there's one way it works, if Nolan Patrick is immediately what-

Yeah

... we thought-

Uh, [laughs] but, like, uh, who-

I don't-

... knows what the problem with him is? Like, if it's, if Nolan Patrick is...

Okay, we all knew he wasn't gonna be a franchise center, but if he's a 60-point center right away and we have him in '18, '19, '20, like through that era, maybe it works.