Lesieur's Offensive Output Sputters

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Guy Lesieur is enjoying his new team, city, GM and teammates, but is not as happy about how the move has affected his output. Maybe it’s just that the chemistry is off. After all, it takes some time to learn the moves and preferences of your line mates. But it certainly seems like a real issue and Lesieur hopes to solve the riddle soon, because he knows what he can do and he also knows that he was brought over in a trade to give the Aces that little extra jolt of offense in an already strong attack in hopes that it would put them over the top for a deep run in the playoffs.

 

Lesieur plays on a line with Washington, a pass first center and Wallace on the other wing. It seems best to compare the two wings. Even after a dry spell, Lesieur has nearly twice as many goals as Wallace (28 to 15), but not in Las Vegas. Regardless of the fact that Lesieur’s scoring percentage is almost double that of Wallace’s (14.14% to 7.61%), over the last 5 games, which is typical of Lesieur’s time in Las Vegas, Wallace has 15 shots vs. only 9 for Lesieur. Wallace has just the one goal vs. Lesieur’s goose egg, along with 3 assists.

 

One has to believe that if Lesieur tee’d up at least as much as Wallace, the line would be more productive. Lesieur is working on his SC to make that happen.