Grading the 2011 Philadelphia Flyers: Jody Shelley

May I just say that Daniel Carcillo better be higher than a 4? Not even being (too) baised on this

I gave him a 4. Given his type of player, he did pretty much what I expected. I initially considered a run-of-the-mill 5, but I gave a -1 because his type of player simply isn’t needed.

I gave him a 5. For everything he did better than I expected (not getting scored on, not being sheltered, playing 6 minutes a game) he did something worse than expected (severely out shot, fighting less, staying healthy).

In other words, he was as bad as I expected.

but after that, he didn’t lose a single fight the rest of the year. We didn’t notice` this during the season, did we?

Depends who you mean by we. I wrote this in January:

We judged him poorly because he lost a couple of fights. It was probably just variance. For this year, he’s now 2-3-2 according to hockeyfights.com, and I expect him to finish at or above .500.

had a few more similar comments in trying to get people to notice this, patted myself on the back in February:

Shelley regressing to the mean!
If he gets credited for a win tonight, he’ll be 5-3-3 on the year.

And then pointed it out one last time in March:

You decided he was a bad fighter after he lost badly to Engelland and Boogard early in the year, and you ignored his many wins since then.

Yay me!

Also, for those saying he didn’t fight as much as you expected…

He had 13 fights in ’06, 13 in ’07, 13 in ’08, 16 in ’09, 13 in ’10, and 12 in ’11.

I give him a 3.5, but not because I was disappointed in his fighting, just because we heard so much from fans of his former teams that we’d love him so much, and that raised my expectations to something that I never really saw.

He gets a 6 for not being a complete Defensive liability.

I’m giving him a 3. My personal expectations for him included that he’d be able to energize the team a littlee when he got into a fight, you know wake them up a little bit and get them involved; and it never seemed to happen that way. That may be an indictment of the rest of the team for not responding, but his fighting rarely seemed to have much of an effect.

I guess nobody liked the descriptions for the scale?

3,

Because of him, Betts had to be more sheltered, so I’m taking an extra one off for that

10 for taking bob to dinner

An enforcer who can’t fight. What more do I need? Everything else he accomplished would have been accomplished and then some by almost any other skater.

His salary could probably land Drury at this point. I’d take that.

6

1.75

I think the salary listed is incorrect. Shouldn’t it be $1.1M/ year for both his salary and cap hit?

He did what I thought he would do, honestly. Threw in a surprise every now and again. And he was probably one of the most well-spoken members of the team. I appreciate his candor even if I don’t appreciate his cap hit.

Remember, Shelley was the one who basically told us all about the issue with Giroux… and he didn’t even name Giroux. Before that 7-0 blowout against the Rangers, he told Therien that the slump was in part due to some of the attitudes in the room, especially from one of the younger players. He told Therien that “it would be straightened out.” And it was.

3, all 3 points for the Atlanta goal. I may have jizzed my pants in the stands. Hell, i didn’t even stand after he scored, i just sat there with my jaw dropped. That said, there are times when I absolutely cant stand him(like when he stays too long on his shift and keeps a better player off the ice). but there were times when he wasn’t a liability. But he does get a – for his crappy contract.

Total class act and all around good guy as expected. For what is it worth he is a member of “leadership” group. Wasn’t a total liability on the ice and fought the tough guys didn’t take bad penalties. He pretty much did his job. His 6 minutes of ice time wasn’t a liability in terms of getting scored on or costing the team by being stupid.

Team PIM/G were down almost 3 minutes per game from last season. That is a big difference.

I believed his signing was to take the pressure of fighting off Lappy who despite a serious brian injury I feel he still would have dropped the gloves in the moment. Unfortunately we were not able to see if that hypothesis was true. Either way I didn’t expect him to do much hard to quantify what type of effect his presence has. And we been all that before. But my expectations were for him not to be a negative factor on the ice and he wasn’t. I am going to give him a 6 then a plus 1 for flying to Boogard funeral service.

This is because he cannot play a regular shift. He cannot beat another heavyweight in a fight. He cannot shoot. He cannot skate. He cannot pass. Why is he a hockey player? What kind of psycho guidance counselor sent him into a life of hockey.