Claimed: With only three games to go, Digital has yet to score a goal

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Bobby Digital takes goalless run deep into season once again

Last season, one of the storylines in New York was captain Bobby Digital's extreme aversion to scoring goals. Through 69 games, all 69 of points points were assists, but this came to an end in the opening minute of the Americans' 70th game of the season, as he quickly scored a power play goal against the Cologne Express. That run of assists without scoring a goal was probably a record; but it isn't anymore, as Digital has surpassed that. Having played 69 games thus far in S54, Digital has 80 assists with no goals. As Digital moves to potentially finish the season with no goals, the Americans head into their 70th game against the same team that ended the streak last season, with COL G once again starting in net.

 

Digital has only scored 13 goals in his 429-game career. His ratio of assists to goals make him one of the most prominent pass-only players in VHL history. Nearly 96% of his 314 career points are assists. He scores a goal in just barely over 3% of his games played, and most of those goals were scored in the early part of his career. After netting the puck just once in his rookie season, he scored a career-high five goals in his second season. Since then, the numbers has been declining season after season: four in S51, two in S52, and one in S53. Along with the current season potentially being the first time not scoring any goals, he's currently leading the league in assists, 12 ahead of teammate Unassisted in second. If Digital can hold onto that lead, as he likely will, without scoring, he would certainly be the first Beketov Trophy winner to score zero goals. It would also be the first Beketov Trophy of his career.

 

New York's fearless captain, Bobby Digital

 

The Americans certainly don't need or expect Digital to be scoring goals; they have other players to do that. Diana Maxwell is currently leading the league with 59 goals, while Unassisted and Tom Lincoln are part of a three-way tie for fourth with 49. As a team, New York ranks third in goals, which is lower than they would like to be, but the offense has been picking up lately. Last season, as well, they started scoring more late in the season, which may suggest that Digital is bound to slap one in soon, whether or not he wants to. From what I recall, it also wasn't until it gained serious attention that Digital scored last season, so perhaps I'm cursing him by bringing it up at this time.

 

New York is set to be North America's second seed in the playoffs, with Quebec having passed them this season. Digital hopes to lead the team to a third straight Continental Cup, but based on the team's record against other top teams, they will be underdogs. Even if they can get past the Meute, who they are currently 3-4 against on the season, should they come up against the Vikings in the finals, they'll find themselves facing a team who cleanly swept them in the regular season. But it's the playoffs, and anything can happen. Personally, I'd love to see Digital score his first goal of S54 in the fourth overtime of Game 7 of the finals.

 

 

 

 

for Maxwell

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@gorlab

[gorlab 4,321]

#TheDream

[gorlab 4,321]

wooooo I did it !!

 

thanks for the motivation @Street x Lite

[boubabi 4,725]

digital pulling a scott gomez 

 

[Devise 4,475]

10 minutes ago, boubabi said:

digital pulling a scott gomez 

 

 

19th in the league in scoring and one point behind Helsinki's #1 center with 0 goals is so much more boss than Gomez could even dream of. 

 

[boubabi 4,725]

Devise on the defensive stance