Joonas Donskoi has scored two goals this season

So Joonas Donskoin as the Seattle Kraken season has been difficult.

Donskoi, 30, moved into the expansion graft for this season in Kraken, whose first season in club history ends on the regular season on Sunday.

Donsko had quite some good times at the Colorado Avalanch below, but he hasn’t been able to transfer the goals he saw at the Avalanch to Kraken. He only scored his first goal this season as part of regular time in February.

Donskoi has made a total of only two hits this season. That’s really little.

Why has this happened?

Wrong decisions

Donsko’s anti-attack direction has been really low this season.

Donskoi is working hard in both directions. He is an energetic presser, giving back and side pressure in the midfield and handling his own box in the defensive zone. Donskoi has also played in the Kraken underpower quartet and is often put first on the ice underpower.

Donskoi is able to break into the attack area with the puck in a controlled and reliable manner.

In the area of ​​attack, Donskoi is able to fight quite strongly in the corner and side twists against larger defenders. The Finnish striker uses the blade quite well at best and makes quick changes of direction to try to leave the defender behind. At the same time, he is able to protect the puck with his body.

Although Donskoi is able to break into the attack area with the puck, nothing really happens after that.

Donskoi has a hard time on the waterlogged pitch – his trademark technique was nowhere in sight today. They don’t want to come even from long spins of attack area.

His decision-making as a disc is at times flawed. For example, when the puck should only be unloaded from the area or thrown to the end, Donskoi may in time sometimes go out of his way to challenge and strive as a puck to or from the area. This will cause him unnecessary disc loss in dangerous places.

Donskoi also shoots from time to time in low-probability locations, sometimes not shooting a good plot of land, or circling with a puck behind the goal when you could try to drive with the puck in front of the goal. His disk handling is also not brisk enough in a small window of time and space.

Self-confidence missing

Of course, all of these are symptoms when a player’s self-confidence is lost.

The lack of self-confidence is also reflected in dueling situations where Donskoin is able to detach from the puck with reasonable ease.

He tries to do everything on the ice and sometimes more than that, which is reflected in skating in a negative way at times. Donskas seems to be in a hurry to tread, and the skating position fluctuates, and he doesn’t get all the strength behind his kicks. It, in turn, taxes balance, torque, and explosiveness.

That’s when he wants to walk on the surface of the ice with a slight bump and lose the puck.

Hard

Donskoi’s difficult season is also reflected in the statistics.

On the ice, Kraken have only 45.83% of the match. Evolving Hockey by. The figure is the fourth weakest of the Kraken players who have played at least 250 minutes and the second weakest of the attackers.

Kraken have created a goal wait in an average of 60 minutes for 1.99 hits with Donskoi on the ice. The number is the seventh lowest on the team.

The goals scored by Kraken with Donskoy on ice averaging 1.97 hits in 60 minutes, the sixth lowest number of the entire team.

GAR or WAR statistics (Goals / Wins Above Replacement) looking at the added value that an individual player brings to a team show that Donskoi has brought the seventh least added value to his team. Of the attackers, the Finn has provided the third least added value.

The GAR statistics have accumulated all the performance of an individual player on ice, which brings added value to his team in terms of wins and goals.

Kraken’s way of playing

When evaluating Donskoi’s paint column readings this season, it’s also good to consider Kraken’s style of play.

The level of intensity of Kraken’s puck play and various game actions in general is low. Kraken is not able to create benefits for the ice to move through, and the cooperation between the players is not brisk enough and of high quality. Puck playing is slow-paced, and attacks don’t accelerate in the midfield.

Defenders have also suffered a lot of puck losses and misfeeds in their area.

Thus, Kraken has not been able to create high-quality goals very often when playing evenly. Natural Stat Trickin according to Kraken, it has created 631 equal-number A-class finishers this season, the third lowest in the series. Seattle have scored 1.85 draws per game this season, the third lowest.

For example, Avalanche’s way of producing forced high-quality goals from one match to another, and so Donskoik got to the finish line better last season.

With the lime lines of the season, Kraken has turned the game up and running faster from his own area. It has seemed a little better suited to the current material as well as the Donskos.

The lowest figures in an NHL career

There are also reasons for Donsko’s paintlessness in his personal statistics.

Donskoi have created a personal goal waiting for this season so far for 6.96 hits Natural Stat Trickin by. The figure is the lowest in his entire NHL career.

Until last season, the corresponding figure was 7.61 and in the second period 8.84. So Tuuriak fit in when the Finn scored 17 goals last season.

Moneypuckin according to Donskoy, the goal expected per shot has also been the lowest in his NHL career this season.

These speak to the fact that Donskoi has not been able to shoot as often and with the same quality of scores this season as in previous seasons. Of course, there has also been room for bad luck.

It’s also good to note that his trigger accuracy was nearly 20 percent last season, and that high efficiency usually doesn’t last for several seasons.

The shooting percentage for this season is 2.4, the lowest since 2016-2017, when Donskoi had a shooting accuracy of 6.32 percent while playing for the San Jose Sharks.

Donskoy’s reduced Ice Time is also one explanatory factor, as less than 15 minutes of playing time makes it difficult to create goals or shots multiple times.

The tendon breaks easily

Reduced ice age, fewer high-quality goals and a lack of self-confidence are reflected in Donskoi’s playing. Once a Finnish striker has reached the finish line, the finishing attempt has often been forced.

The grips of the Kraken players have even shown indifference, and in the central area, for example, the backs have straightened and have been defensively defended in their own area.

Problems with the goalkeeper game have also been present throughout the season, and no Philipp Grubauer has not been at the level of previous periods.

The tendency to play Kraken has often broken very easily and quickly. These have inevitably also affected Donskoy’s gameplay.