Top Scorer
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:56 pm
I see Jacob Brun Laarsen is currently our top scorer for the season on 6 goals. With 4 left to play, it is in entirely plausible that we end the season with a top scorer on 6 goals.
Given how low this is it prompted me to look back on previous seasons and I see that, excluding seasons not completed in the war years, only twice have we had a top scorer on 6 goals or less, one of these being a 22 game season way back in 1889-90, and the most recent being 1970-71 when Frank Casper and Erik Probert tied for top scorer on 5 goals. Looking highly likely this will be our lowest number of goals for top scorer in over 50 years.
(Not trying to make any particular point here - just thought it was an interesting observation - though perhaps this does highlight one of our flaws this season, with the lack of a consistent clinical goal scorer)
Given how low this is it prompted me to look back on previous seasons and I see that, excluding seasons not completed in the war years, only twice have we had a top scorer on 6 goals or less, one of these being a 22 game season way back in 1889-90, and the most recent being 1970-71 when Frank Casper and Erik Probert tied for top scorer on 5 goals. Looking highly likely this will be our lowest number of goals for top scorer in over 50 years.
(Not trying to make any particular point here - just thought it was an interesting observation - though perhaps this does highlight one of our flaws this season, with the lack of a consistent clinical goal scorer)