Habs: One-game Scouting Report for Blake Geoffrion

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.

	5
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
	5
MINUTES	12	MINUTES
POS/MIN	1.44	POS/MIN
NEG/MIN	0.76	NEG/MIN
	5
EVENTS/ MIN	2.20	EVENTS/ MIN
RISK/REWARD	0.68	RISK/REWARD
	5

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).

	5
OZ POS	6	OZ POS
OZ NEG	6	OZ NEG
RATIO	1.00	RATIO
MIN/G	11.82	MIN/G
	5
MINUTES	12	MINUTES
POS/MIN	0.51	POS/MIN
NEG/MIN	0.51	NEG/MIN
	5
EVENTS/ MIN	1.02	EVENTS/ MIN
RISK/REWARD	0.00	RISK/REWARD
	5

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
	5
MINUTES	12	MINUTES
POS/MIN	0.34	POS/MIN
NEG/MIN	0.08	NEG/MIN
	5
EVENTS/ MIN	0.42	EVENTS/ MIN
RISK/REWARD	0.25	RISK/REWARD
	5

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
	5
MINUTES	12	MINUTES
POS/MIN	0.34	POS/MIN
NEG/MIN	0.17	NEG/MIN
	5
EV/ MIN	0.51	EV/ MIN
RISK/REWARD	0.17	RISK/REWARD
	5

SHORT-HANDED RISK/REWARD RATING 

Geoffrion had an impressive short-handed risk/reward rating of 1.13. This was the result of both a solid performance, and a significant increase in events. His short-handed ratio of 4 successful plays for every 1 unsuccessful play was equally impressive.

POS	4	POS
NEG	1	NEG
RATIO	4.00	RATIO
MIN/G	2.65	MIN/G
	5
MINUTES	3	MINUTES
POS/MIN	1.51	POS/MIN
NEG/MIN	0.38	NEG/MIN
	5
EVENTS/ MIN	1.89	EVENTS/ MIN
RISK/REWARD	1.13	RISK/REWARD
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