Article: Fewer Minutes Have Meant More Productivity For Marcus Johansson

[Robert Brent]

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[Scalptrash]

Fewer minutes or fewer dollars? He's under a show me contract. Billy will give him big money again, and once he's comfortable, his true colors will reappear.

[Pewterschmidt]

With the Olympics train having left the station, nojo’s drive goes with it.  I bet he retires after this season.  Enjoy the one handed water ski back check while it lasts

[MNCountryLife]

I watched him drop the puck to ... nobody... last night in the corner of the offensive zone and then skate away.  He earned the Nojo moniker for that play.  But I will admit that he has been productive... most of the season.  I'm with Pewterschmidt on this one.  I think we will see a lot more of Nojo as the season continues.  I hope I am wrong and continues to engage.  He has the skill.

[FredJohnson]

I’m all for reducing his minutes. (Whether he plays better or not. Which is relative…)

[Imyourhuckleberry]

With Rossi and Ohgren gone, there aren't too many players left in the Wild organization who could reasonably be asked to replace Johansson in the lineup. His resurgence has been surprising and commendable. We will see how he plays after the Olympic fire goes out. He only has 1 point in his last 7 games, which does make you wonder if it's fading already...

He should be trying even harder to possibly be the first add in case of injury. 11 games left until the olympic break. Hopefully the Wild get better results than they have the last 5 games, and maybe Johansson can get back near the pace he had in the first half.

If he can play the 2nd half somewhat close to his first half scoring pace, he will have earned some of the money from his last contract with the Wild. He's clearly outproduced the $800k, but he still owed a bit from his prior 2 seasons where he finished with the same points that he has through 45 games this year.

He already has the most goals he's ever scored in a year with the Wild.

On a line with Boldy and Eriksson Ek,  it's virtually guaranteed that he'll finish this season with the most assists he's had since he was 26 and playing with Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Bäckström.

He's basically playing the same role he has the last 2 years, which begs the question, where was this effort/game before he turned 35?

 

[Dis-allowed display name]

3 years, $5 million per, full NMC.  Come on Billy!  Get it done!  Then lock up Hartman and Foligno.

[Dis-allowed display name]

31 minutes ago, Imyourhuckleberry said:

With Rossi and Ohgren gone, there aren't too many players left in the Wild organization who could reasonably be asked to replace Johansson in the lineup.

 

 

I would surely hope that with the Wild roster as is, Hughes, Faber, Kap, Boldy, plus a few others, that the wild should be able to better compete in free agency for the tier of players that fill out a roster at fair contract value because they have a shot to go somewhere in the postseason.  This has to be a more attractive place than it has been because of our "stars".  

At least I hope so.  I am ASSUMING that when guys like Nojo, or Foligno, maybe Hartman expire, we should be able to replace with similar, if not better, just by paying fair market value and not having to overpay because people might actually want to be here.  It is replacing Zucc with similar level of play that will be difficult because he seems to be the one who has a stats line with a pulse.

Edited Wednesday at 02:56 PM by Dis-allowed display name

[Pewterschmidt]

1 hour ago, Imyourhuckleberry said:

We will see how he plays after the Olympic fire goes out.

[mnfaninnc]

It seems like Johansson is always on the 2nd line. I'm shocked that he only has just under 16 minutes of TOI. But, he has been more effective!