Lesieur's S70 Performance Update: Installment 6 - Hall of Fame Potential?

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I’ve been tracking RW, Guy Lesieur’s S70 progress all year as a fun way to stay connected with him and see how he is progressing from S69. It started as a way to see how much he could improve in his second year in the VHL having spent only one year in the VHLM.

 

But now, given how much he has improved in just one year and looking at where he is at in only his 3^rd overall year in the sim, I am starting to believe that the Hall of Fame is certainly not out of the question. In fact, I’m going to go on record early and say that Guy Lesieur will one day be honored in this way.

 

Let’s look at the numbers now that nearly all the games have been played. I am going to go with the numbers as of 64 games played to keep the analysis comparable on a week to week basis.

 

Goals

 

In the past 14 games, M. Lesieur has scored another 6 goals. That’s nearly a goal every other game and if he had scored at that pace all season long, he would score nearly 36 goals. In only his 3^rd season. That is a Hall of Fame trajectory if I have ever seen one.

 

This brings Guy’s season long total to 23 putting him on a pace to score nearly 26 goals in his 3^rd season of development. As a point of reference, Guy scored 12 goals in all of S69 – evidence of his meteor-like rise. With 8 games to play, Lesieur has doubled his S69 total less one goal.

 

His talented teammates have also picked up the pace and so Guy has slipped from the #3 goal scorer on the team to #4

 

Assists

 

As it has been all season, it is a similar story on this side of the scoresheet. In the past 14 games, Guy notched 5 assists for an S70 season total to date of 22. This is a pace of nearly 25 assists on the season. His current 22 assists means he has already more than doubled his total for S69 (10), but again his teammates superior performance means that he slipped from #8 to #9 in assists for all Dragons players.

 

Lest one think that his current 45 points is simply due to being a big fish in a small expansion pond, let us remember that Aaltonen, Frostbeard, Valentino, Fish and other greats play on this team. Also, GM @Enorama pointed out in his recent article, “Young First Gens Destined for the Hall” that Guy Lesieur is leading all S69 wingers in points this season and is only 7 career points behind Soren Jensen who won the Stolzschweiger prize in his rookie year.

 

Shots

 

One of the reasons that Lesieur his having success is that he is willing to be put the puck on the net. As the Great One, Gretzky, famously opined, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Lesieur tries to not let that happen. He has 254 shots on the season and is on pace for nearly 286. That is nearly double his S69 total of 145 and ranks him fourth on his team, the D.C. Dragons.

 

Shot Percentage

 

But it’s not just flinging the puck and hoping something goes in. After 6 games (my first progress update) Guy was on fire with an 11.54% shot percentage. No one thought that could last and that dipped over the next 3 updates. However, as Lesieur continues to work on his game, his shot percentage has risen in both of the last 2 updates. From 7.48% to 8.72% and then from there to 9.1% in this latest update. This is good for 6^th on among Dragons players.

 

Here is a man who puts the puck on net and whose accuracy is beginning to grow.

 

Yes indeed, I believe this is a 3^rd year performance worthy of early discussion of a Hall of Fame career.