2009-2010 Francois Beauchemin

I think that he was guilty of trying to do too much at the beginning of the season, but he improved as the season went on.
He played a ton of minutes and as pointed out his Corsi numbers are solid considering the quality of the team he played with.

It’s not the minus that stands out for me, it was the number of poor first passes and turnovers that I have an issue with.

A 3.5mil defenseman shouldn’t be making those mistakes.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Well put.

Yeah, he played some horribly tough minutes and had some gems in there as well, hopefully with better goaltending and a more settled defense core, next year will be better for him.

This is a very accurate evaluation. It was a good signing and I am glad that they have him. He is good enough to be on a Cup team as he has already proven.

His PDO is 973 – the Leafs weren’t making their shots with him on the ice and the goalies weren’t making the saves. With anything near 1000, he’s probably an even-ish player with the highest QComp and the second highest Corsi-QComp, while maintaining a positive relative Corsi. He’s a good player, I’d expect a rebound in counting stats next season.

So I gave him a 4.

According to SkinnyFish, that was the highest mark I could give according to my expectations. Beauchemin played well, but I think he can be noticeably better.

Oh yeah, over at Japers eh? Well they must be totally copying off of us then. Jerks…

So you’re giving him a five despite the Leafs SVPCT with him on the ice being .913 and him being a d-man with a 2.9 SPCT?

What were you expecting?

a .913 ES save percentage is actually really not very good… but his 6.04 shooting percentage was the worst in the NHL for blueliners at ES for players who played over 40 games and 15 minutes a game… so yeah that sucked. The average was 8.45% so he’s well below average, but the median was 8.37%, so he’s not alone in the whole not being able to shoot out the lights thing as a D man.

He’s in the same realm as Steve Staios and Brad Stuart (i.e. not an offensive D man).

As for the ES Save percentages of that group, he’s pretty far down the list. A .913 ES save percentage ranks him 78th out of 128. The average for the group was .917, and the median was also .917, so yeah .913 is below average.

Either way, he wasn’t brought in to score goals as much as he was to stop them, and I’d say the ES save percentage, when combined with how atrocious Toskala was on the PK, has a lot to do with how bad his year went as a Leaf overall.

I didn’t know Mrs. Beauchemin was a member.

I like his facial hair.

or a 1 for that matter.

I gave him a 4. If we had been grading his play from December – April, he was pretty much the guy we signed him to be. Unfortunately, I didn’t think his play in October and November was all that great.

I think he’s the perfect number 2 guy. I don’t think he’s comfortable with being the leader on D – which is what he was after Komikaze went down – but he plays his best alongside an alpha dog like Niedermeyer in Anaheim or Phaneuf.

although I’m not sure I’m grading this the same as everyone else…

I inherently am looking at this the same way I do grading in the classroom. 50% is a gift pass… so a 5 would mean he was barely adequate as a D man for the money we signed him at. 60% would be average given his surroundings, playing time, and pay. I gave him a 70%, which would mean that I think given his surroundings, work load, and pay, he outperformed the average of the class (team) but not by a whole hell of a lot… 70% = 7.

I also gave him a 6, for pretty much the same reasons. Based solely on pre-Christmas play, a 4, max.

I wanted to give him a 7, but I had to round down – gave him a 6.

my mind is blown

but near the end of the year, Francois was mostly paired with super chin Dion, that brings down his HTeam stat

Duncan Keith who used to be handsome.

Poor toothless joe…

Alexander Ovechkin plays with Mike Green big bad bear Karl Alzner who is handsome

They never recovered from the loss of Ian White’s mustache.

Do you mean Wayne and Brent?

for the amount of players that are all but guaranteed to stick with the Leafs D, there are certainly a lot of options for change
If Kaberle is moved and, for argument sake, Marleau is signed at 6 mill (knocking Finger through waivers) I could definetly see VanRy brought in to plug that final spot on D, hell even if Finger does stick at the 7th and MVR signs at around a mill.. who the hell knows
I’m excited

“well the goaltending is suspect, but heaven help anyone that tries to come over our blue line”

:/

I think that’s how most of us feel.
And as most have pointed out, he should have a better year this year.

I wouldn’t call him a scrapper; he’s only had 8 fights in 7 NHL seasons.

Yeah, on a team that I was hoping would be a fringe playoff contender but finished in 29th, I know I won’t be giving many grades over 5 or 6 (remembering again it’s not how good they were, it’s how they did vs. expectations). Gunnar, Bozak… Bueller?

Even though he’s long gone we should do this for Toskalol just for the hilarity of 100% votes for 1 out of 10.

Let’s just hope we can rid ourselves of Finger so there’s room for him.

not a statistically significant result due to the bias of all the information presented and the fact that the sampling is done from people who actually give a crap about the Leafs (who read this blog). The anchoring effect isn’t going to sway said group significantly more than those other realities would either way.

Average vote so far is a 5.84

but then everyone would just have to define their expectations…

Rate Beauchemin below on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best) based on his performance relative to his potential and your expectations for the season – if he had the best year you could have imagined him having, give him a 10; if he more or less played as you expected he would, give him a 5 or a 6; if he had the worst year you could have imagined him having, give him a 1.

I have no idea when it’ll be released, but I’m pretty sure it’s coming back.

I assume August again.

It’s on again. Do not re-read the old one.

1. That the Leafs would have reasonably adequate goaltending, which they did not receive for the majority of the year from Toskala and the rookie Gustavsson. Once Giguere was present, Beauchemin’s numbers were improved.

2. The PK was also decent once Giguere arrived, and Gustavsson settled down a bit with less pressure. Those futility records were more of a concern early on in the season.

3. He did provide more leadership than you might think. Gunnarsson and Schenn showed improvement generally by the time the final 3rd of the season rolled around, and the team didn’t collapse completely at any point in the year after it’s initial horrible start.

4. At 5 on 5 the Leafs goals against wasn’t as bad as you’re framing it. 163 goals against was better than Columbus, Ottawa, Atlanta, the Islanders, AND Edmonton. The PK was a large part of the problem.

And rec’d. I’m sorry folks but he was brought in to be a team leader, a potential captain, and under his leadership the season was a spectacular failure. We can’t put all of the blame on Toskala.

And 4 isn’t a terrible grade on the defined scale. It means just below expectations. That’s pretty kind given how last year went.