The Hurricanes captain has not been having a good season at all and he's fallen under harsh scrutiny from the most of the fanbase, myself included. With only four goals and eight points in 20 games played, everyone is wondering where the spark is from Eric Staal this season and if he's beginning to decline as a player. While I can agree that Staal's start to the year was brutal, he has been picking it up lately even though his point total does not indicate it.
We'll take a closer look at Staal's season after the jump.
Here's a graph that shows the Hurricanes corsi percentage with the score tied while Staal was on the ice along with the percentage of scoring chances that went in the team's favor.
Like I mentioned earlier, Staal got off to a horrible start this year and was in a funk for the entire month of October. Whenever your scoring chance percentage is below 40% then you know something is wrong. However, you can see that he's slowly been im...
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