Lesieur's S70 Performance Update: Installment 2

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Five more games have passed since I have reported on Guy Lesieur’s blazing early start to the S70 season. The “way too early” analysis of the first 6 games can begin to be checked by the ongoing performance over the season. It is still “way too early” with only 11 total games being played, but why not take a look? It is fun, it hurts no one, and as long as things are kept in perspective and unseemly crowing or unfounded pessimism takes over, I shall forge ahead. So, my first analysis was after only 6 games or 8.3% of the season. With 11 games played, we are now at 15.3% of the season played.

 

Where is Guy Lesieur now in S70, only his second in the VHL?

 

Goals

 

Guy has scored four goals thus far. This is a steep decrease in pace versus those first 6 games when he blazed out of the gate with three. However, this still leaves him as the goal leader on the D.C. Dragons. He is actually tied for first, but from here on out in my reporting, I will not be reporting whether it is a tie or whether Guy holds the rank all by himself. This puts him on pace to score 26 goals on the season – more than double his total of 12 in S69. If Guy were to score “even” 20 goals this season, I would count it as a monster success.

 

Shots

 

Guy continues to be one to really swing the stick! In S69 he put 145 pucks on net. Thus far in S70 he has already challenged goalies 47 times. This is on pace for a whopping 307 shots on goal! But it really is not so out of the norm for his team. He ranked third in S69 and has fallen so far to 4^th leading shot taker and he is built to be a shoot first high flying winger after all. So, we will just have to see if this pace continues. If it does, those twenty plus goals look very possible.

 

Shot Percentage

 

Here is an area where Guy really needs to improve and he is working hard on this facet of his game. In S69 he ended with an 8.28% scoring mark which ranked 8^th on the team. Lesieur started with a greatly improved 11.54% mark, but that has regressed back to the mean as it were. After 11 games he is back to scoring on 8.51% of his shots. This is still a hair above his performance last season, but statistically similar enough to say there has been no improvement shown so far. He has climbed in the team rankings though from 8^th to 5^th and that is a little odd as the Dragons added some real talent this year. Doubtless just an atypical slow start for those veterans.

 

Assists

 

Guy is mainly a scorer, but it’s important to look at this side of his game too as it only makes the team stronger. The story is basically identical to the goal scoring one. Guy went from 3 G, 3 A in 6 games to 4 G, 4 A in 11 games. So, he is on the same pace as for goal scoring - 26 assists for the season. Again, could he attain a 20/20 season, I would consider it a great season and a nice setup for his third year and a chance for the Dragons to really make some noise in the league.

 

Next week, I will continue to track Guy Lesieur’s rise in the league.