Habs: One-game Scouting Report for Blake Geoffrion

By Kicks @Chrisboucher73
Blake Geoffrion was picked up in a trade that sent Hal Gill to the Nashville Predators. The 6'2", 190 lbs forward can play both the wing and centre, and was sent to the Hamilton Bulldogs immediately following the trade. This scouting report is from a November 12th, 2011 game between the Predators and the Montreal Canadiens.
REFERENCE POINTS
These averages have been calculated over hundreds of games and approximately 2000 individual scouting reports:

Average grade: 67

Average ratio: 2.03
Average risk/reward: 1.31
Average offensive-zone risk/reward: 0.30
Average defensive-zone risk/reward: 0.62
Average neutral-zone risk/reward: 0.30



OVERALL GRADE
Geoffrion had a slightly above-average grade of 68. His best work was produced in the defensive-zone; both at even-strength and on the penalty-kill. He had an even traditional plus/minus and 2 shots on net.  

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WINS 19 WINS

EVENTS 28 EVENTS

GRADE 68 GRADE

PLAYER 5


OVERALL RISK/REWARD RATING
Geoffrion had a below-average overall risk/reward, and an overall ratio of 1.89 successful plays for every unsuccessful play. He was involved in an unimpressive 2.20 events per-minute played. As already mentioned, his best work was produced short-handed.

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POS 17 POS

NEG 9 NEG

RATIO 1.89 RATIO

MIN/G 11.82 MIN/G

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MINUTES 12 MINUTES

POS/MIN 1.44 POS/MIN

NEG/MIN 0.76 NEG/MIN

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EVENTS/ MIN 2.20 EVENTS/ MIN

RISK/REWARD 0.68 RISK/REWARD

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OFFENSIVE-ZONE RISK/REWARD RATING
Geoffrion had an offensive-zone risk/reward rating of 0.00, and an o-zone ratio of 1 successful play for every 1 unsuccessful play. He won only 2 of 5 offensive-zone puck-battles, and completed only 2 of 4 o-zone pass-attempts. He recovered 1 loose-puck, and was successful with his only attempt to beat an opposing player 1on1 (deke).

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OZ POS 6 OZ POS

OZ NEG 6 OZ NEG

RATIO 1.00 RATIO

MIN/G 11.82 MIN/G

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MINUTES 12 MINUTES

POS/MIN 0.51 POS/MIN

NEG/MIN 0.51 NEG/MIN

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EVENTS/ MIN 1.02 EVENTS/ MIN

RISK/REWARD 0.00 RISK/REWARD

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DEFENSIVE-ZONE RISK/REWARD RATING
Geoffrion's best work was produced in the defensive-zone. That said, his defensive-zone risk/reward was still low due to a significant lack of  events. He produced a defensive-zone ratio of 4 successful plays for every 1 unsuccessful play. He won his only defensive-zone puck-battle, completed his only d-zone pass-attempt, and recovered 1 loose-puck.

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DZ POS 4 DZ POS

DZ NEG 1 DZ NEG

RATIO 4 RATIO

MIN/G 11.82 MIN/G

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MINUTES 12 MINUTES

POS/MIN 0.34 POS/MIN

NEG/MIN 0.08 NEG/MIN

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EVENTS/ MIN 0.42 EVENTS/ MIN

RISK/REWARD 0.25 RISK/REWARD

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NEUTRAL-ZONE RISK/REWARD RATING
Geoffrion had a below-average neutral-zone risk/reward of 0.17. Again, this was due to a lack of events. He also produced a neutral-zone ratio of 2 successful plays for every 1 unsuccessful play.  He was successful with all 3 of his attempts to dump the puck deep into the offensive-zone, and won 1 of his 2 n-zone puck-battles.

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NZ POS 4 NZ POS

NZ NEG 2 NZ NEG

RATIO 2 RATIO

MIN/G 11.82 MIN/G

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MINUTES 12 MINUTES

POS/MIN 0.34 POS/MIN

NEG/MIN 0.17 NEG/MIN

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EV/ MIN 0.51 EV/ MIN

RISK/REWARD 0.17 RISK/REWARD

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SHORT-HANDED RISK/REWARD RATING 
Geoffrion

POS 4 POS

NEG 1 NEG

RATIO 4.00 RATIO

MIN/G 2.65 MIN/G

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MINUTES 3 MINUTES

POS/MIN 1.51 POS/MIN

NEG/MIN 0.38 NEG/MIN

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EVENTS/ MIN 1.89 EVENTS/ MIN

RISK/REWARD 1.13 RISK/REWARD

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