Vancouver Canucks forward Nikolay Goldobin‘s last game was on January 13th. During that game, he only saw 8:34 of ice time. The game also marked the fifth consecutive outing where Goldobin failed to record a point, his last one prior to that was his two-assist performance against the Edmonton Oilers on Dec. 27th.
During his ensuing five-game slump, Goldobin had a minus-eight rating. To be fair to him, the majority of the players on the Canucks found themselves in the negative during those five games, as the Canucks dropped three of five.
That five-game slump was good enough for Goldobin to earn a spot in Travis Green’s doghouse, or as we like to call it, the press box.