Will the real Michael Bunting please stand up?

[Bubba55]

This guy was a huge disappointment for me this year. He was a very solid own in multi cat leagues. In his two years with the Leafs; PIM of 80 and over 100, Hits at 85 and SOG of 175. Not bad. Then he goes to Carolina and he puts up 55 PIM, 25 Hits and 113 SOG in 60 games. These numbers, particularly SOG and Hits are significantly lower than what he was putting up in Toronto. ??? It gets better though, or certainly more confusing, since his trade out of Carolina, Buntings' numbers in 10 games with the Pens are 2 PIM, 27 SOG and 15 Hits. PIM's low for sure, but the other numbers look like they did in TO. To make matters worse, his scoring is down a bit as well, I'm not overly concerned with that, but maybe I should be? I'm curious as to what happened to him in Carolina but far more importantly, I'm wondering what his numbers are going to look like next year in Pittsburg, do we see the "Carolina Guy" or the "Toronto Dude"? Your thoughts?

[Bubba55]

This must be a bit tougher to answer than I thought (:

Bump

[RizzeeDizzee]

I'd give you an answer, but I'm saving it for my Forum Buzz column, as I'm going to need all the source questions I can get since most posts this time of year are about who to start/stream.

[ericdaoust]

PTS: in line with last year
PIM: I can see him picking up a misconduct or two in the remaining garbage games to pad this number
SOG: in line with past two years
HITS: Could be a combination of him playing a bit differently after the big contract. But don't discount the impact of the arena stats counter. Hits are very subjective.

There's room for improvement, but will he get more than 15 minutes per game?

[Bubba55]

I'd give you an answer, but I'm saving it for my Forum Buzz column, as I'm going to need all the source questions I can get since most posts this time of year are about who to start/stream.

Understood, I'm sure "content" at this time of year is a bit scarce. I started a thread on Podkolzin you might jump on as well....or not (: