Johan Frazen is a simply incredible hockey player. I offer this video as evidence of some of this guy's incredible skills.
Spectacular regular season goals aside, this guy is doing something that few have ever seen before. Here are his post-season statistics that I am sure are drilled into your head by now:
13 Goals last year, 18 points this year in 12 games.
Frazen is singlehandedly keeping the Red Wings in contention for another championship. Think about where the Wings would be without his elevated, clutch play; they would undoubtedly be dead in the water (Pond?). Anaheim would have walked all over the Wings without the play of Frazen in that hard-fought, 7-game series, given how well the Ducks shut down Datsyuk and Hossa.
Frazen is the most clutch post-season performer we have seen in any sport in a while. There is a long list of athletes whose performance takes a serious hit when the post-season rolls around; a list that starts alphabetically in the A's for A-Rod and Ray Allen. There is another list, a much shorter list, of good players who become legends in the post-season, and Frazen belongs near the top.
If Reggie Jackson was Mr. October, Frazen might have to be Mr. May.
Lastly, remember the Wings just signed him to an 11 year deal earlier this season. That contract looks even more appealing now that Frazen's play this post-season proved that last year's amazing statistics were no fluke. The Wings will just about always be good enough to make the playoffs, and as long as this guy steps up his game in April and May like this, expect the engravers to be carving a lot of "Frazen" on those Stanley Cups and Con Smyth trophies.
1 comments:
just shows the depth and how good the scouts are for the wings. after coming off a championship, they go out and sign hossa. they know what they're doing, and they're doing it well.
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