«De tous ces PKers qui ont tué 50 minutes ou plus de pénalités en 2022/23, le PPGA / 60 d’Irwin était le taux le plus bas de tous. Pas seulement les Capitals de Washington, pas seulement les 34 ans et plus, pas seulement les gars nommés « Matt ». Le plus bas de tous les PKer réguliers, point final.
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Brentwood Bay’s own baby! Really happy to see Matt get to come home for what, let’s be honest, is likely his swan song. He’s come a long way from Worcester let me tell you, and every player in that dressing room is going to be happy to have a guy like that in there.
3LD job is his to lose
These additions are underrated because it will improve the worst aspect of our team last year: PK. There were a lot of games where we just gave it away because of the PK. In fact, I am convinced we could have made the playoffs had we fixed our PK earlier. Irwin will be great for this.
Every year I hear about how whoever we brought in is a PK legend and every year I’ve watched them do literally fuck all then get traded away a year into their contract. I’ll reserve judgement until 20 games in.
Wait. Did we sign Matt Irwin?
He also averaged the 6th least amount of PK time on the Capitals. So is he an amazing penalty killer or did he just not really get relied on to kill any penalties?