Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Who is that guy?

I wandered onto Martle's blog today and noticed his list of restricted free agents. Perusing down the list I came across the name, Rich Peverley (14). He doesn't look like much in the point total(5g-5a-10pts), but then again, he only played in 33 games. Not to mention he was only getting an average of only 10:19 time on ice per game. I was fairly impressed by what I saw of him so I did a little more digging on him today. Down in Milwaukee he was getting over one point per game. The player notes say:
* Has recorded his first two playoff points/assists in back-to-back games, including one on Radek Bonk's game-tying goal at 19:16 of the third period in Game Five, sending the contest to overtime.
* Notched his first career playoff point/assist in Game Four, tallying on Shea Weber's goal.

* Made his playoff debut in Game One, and won a game-high 86% of the face-offs he took (6-of-7).

That's a pretty nice faceoff percentage. TSN.ca no longer has scouting reports so I'm wondering what the dirt on this guy could be. TSN lists him as W/C (winger/center) and with Radulov jettisoning back to Russia you would think that the Predators would be locking up this guy. Too bad Lou already dumped $2.5 on Holik and is getting close to the cap, otherwise I might be asking him to give an offer sheet to this guy.