I wrote about Jordan Staal’s wretched goal-scoring drought about a month ago.
It ended up being a 35-game drought that even Martin Necas wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole.
The most bewildering part was that, compared to his world-beating 2020-21, his metrics were better, and his results were drastically worse. The conclusion I reached was that, in a short time, he would end that drought, and things would start to balance back out.
I didn’t expect him to bounce back the way he has, though.
Over the last few weeks, Staal has been scoring goals with a consistency that he hadn’t reached since the second half of the 2021 regular season.