2017 Player Reviews: Dominique Badji

Someone must teach the dark arts of being a lone target striker to Dominique Badji. Gordon can do it. Badji seems to be growing each season with the Rapids, but if he hopes to be a long term presence in this league, he’ll need to add a few more tricks to his repertoire.

2017 Counting Stats: 33 GP, 29 GS, 9 G, 6 A, 2540 min, 5 YC

Key Stat:

2017 Expected Goals: 9.36 ; Goals: 9 ; Minutes: 2540

2016 Expected Goals: 4.73; Goals: 6 ; Minutes: 1681

Season Highlights:

As the leading goal scorer with 9 goals, Badji had the bulk of the team’s highlights. Badji’s exquisite finish on Kevin Doyle’s throughball-azo merited serious consideration as his season highlight. I could have instead selected Dom’s game…