[Devils-list] Barry Melrose's Intermission Thoughts

[Pete Keiper-White]

Our PK has been crap so I debate how great Pando has been on the PK.
PP Stats for our opponents:

Pit, game 1, 1 for 2
Tor, game 7, 1 for 2
Tor, game 6, 2 for 6
Tor, game 5, 1 for 4
Total:     5 for 14, that is better than 35%. That is very bad. 

I don't believe for a second that Pandolfo was not out there for a good
portion of those goals. I'm not saying that all the goals were all his
fault. I am implying that just because ESPN says he is a good PKer does
not make it so.

Also notice that these are games w/o Niedermayer. As a way of comparison,
here are the last four games before (during) Niedermayer's injury

Tor, game 4, 0 for 5
Tor, game 3, 1 for 3
Tor, game 2, 0 for 4
Tor, game 1, 1 for 3

That's 2 for 15 or 13%. That is still not great but a hell of a lot better
than post-Niedermayer.


			Pete 




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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Deanna Tortorello wrote:
> I dunno...I'm about to do something I never ever though I would...Pando has 
> been great on the penalty kill...he doesn't have any short handed goals (I 
> don't think he has any goals at all, actually :P), but he's been beating 
> the other team to the puck...you gotta give him that...maybe he's just 
> upped his game from really really bad to just really bad and so I'm 
> praising him, but maybe not....
> 
> D~
>