Punstoppable
A list of puns related to "Mark Blake"
What's up buds, tight turn around for me today.
This one is a bit of a follow-up to my write-up about Troy Terry yesterday, because Scheifele’s kind of a natural sell high/buy low trade target for Terry owners. Once I started looking into him, I realized that since Scheif and Wheeler are each other’s most common linemates at all strengths, and are both having terrible starts to their seasons, that it would only make sense to look at both of them when talking about one of them. So, while I’m going to be writing about each of them individually to an extent, I’ll still be going back and forth a bit between them throughout this PD.
Mark Scheifele had steadily improved his offense every season since being drafted by the Jets, and broke out as a consistent PPG+ player in 16-17 with 32G 50A and 82pts in 79GP. Since then, he’s never finished a season with less than an 82pt pace. Because of this, I’m going to be comparing his current stats to his averages over the last 5 seasons. Over Scheif’s last 15 games, he’s been a little fricken disappointing, sitting at only a 44pt pace with 2G and 6A.
I’ve noticed him and Wheeler have sometimes been playing on the second line, but both are still getting roughly the same TOI/GP at all strengths that they’ve always been given, and they’re still on PP1. His line is also still getting the same ratio of offensive to defensive zone starts that they have historically been given, and while Scheif’s shots/60 rate has gone down slightly to 5.92 from his last 5 years’ average of 6.33, I see nothing to worry about there.
These guys are kind of the opposite of Troy Terry, because where I’m seeing the craziness is in how low their PP unit’s conversion is, and in their steep individual S% dip. Mark Scheifele is currently shooting at a shockingly low 6.45%, a drastic departure from his elite post-breakout average of 18.25%. His IPP is also down to 47% from his average of 68%, oiSH% down to 9.34% from an average of 12.21%, and finally, his PPP rate per 60 is all the way down to 1.34/60 from a 5-year average of 3.95/60. He very clearly should be scoring way more, and getting in on more points, and there really isn’t anything in his own stats that tells me otherwise.
Blake Wheeler’s stats seem to be telling a similar story. The difference here, is that at 35, Wheeler is 7 years older than Scheifele, and a little more at risk for age regression. That said, he’s had a great tenure with Winnipeg, generating excellent production
... keep reading on reddit ➡Tweet >“They have a need for a four-man. I’ve always had a lot of respect for Steve Nash and all of the guys that they have. Sean Marks has done a great job there. It was a tough decision and I wanted to be on a team that was contending.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55452313
"Over nine years, the Soviet spy handed over information that led to the betrayal of at least 40 MI6 agents in Eastern Europe."
Born in the Netherlands, Blake was a naturalized British citizen who was a part of the Dutch resistance during World War 2 before fleeing to Britain and working for MI6. Stationed in Occupied Korea when the Korean War broke out, Blake was captured by the Korean People's Army. During his internment, he witnessed the effects of the AmeriKKKan bombings of the country, as well as reading some of Marx's work. He chose to defect to the Soviet Union because, according to his own words,
"It was the relentless bombing of small Korean villages by enormous American Flying Fortresses. Women and children and old people, because the young men were in the army. We might have been victims ourselves. It made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technically superior countries fighting against what seemed to me defenseless people. I felt I was on the wrong side...that it would be better for humanity if the Communist system prevailed, that it would put an end to war. "
Already harboring Communist sympathies due to his time spent studying with his cousin Henri Curiel in Egypt as a child (a seasoned Communist anti-imperialist activist in his own right), Blake would return to Britain and begin working to undermine British and AmeriKKKan spies operating in Eastern Europe, as well as recruiting more double agents from within Britain. Over the course of eight years, he managed to leak the identities and activites of over forty MI6 agents to the KGB, though Blake himself estimated that he had compromised as many as five hundred agents over the course of his career.
After being betrayed by a Polish defector, Blake was convicted and sentenced to 42 years in prison in England. However, he managed to escape prison after five years with the help of an Irish criminal and two anti-nuclear peace advocates who were imprisoned alongside him, and spent the rest of his life in the Soviet Union.
A committed Marxist-Leninist to the end, Blake expressed no regrets for his actions. He denied being a British traitor, arguing that "to betray, you first have to belong. I never belonged."
Rest in power, comrade.
https://twitter.com/DavidFurones_/status/1079433803456745474
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