I watched more tape on him.
Pros
- When he gets to top speed, he is close to impossible to stop
- Amazing ability to walk the blueline and change shooting angles
- Very deceptive from the point, great vision when it comes to shot-pass tips
- Cerebral player, especially when defending knowing he won't ever beat players 1v1 with size
Cons
- His first stride is pretty dang lacklustre
- His shot is awful, especially the heaviness of it
- Too slender, will definitely need to bulk up
- Huge puck watcher in the defensive zone
- Tends to use his stick too much when defending, I want him to be more involved with his body around the net
He is a big-time puck-rushing defenceman who is very crafty and uses his agility to honestly fool around with opposing forechequers at times. He uses fakes, body jukes, changing the pace, and the all-the-above to make space and ankle-break players. A bit cocky and confident in his ability with the puck, I actually like to see that. His play away from the puck needs work, his biggest weakness is puck-watching and leaving opposing players open in front of the net all the time. Another weakness is his defensive ability in the corner, especially when battling for pucks. He isn't truly terrible, but something he can work on by outsmarting opposing players.
He also has dished some pretty big hits from what I've seen by standing up in the defensive zone and catching players off balance. He's quite deceptive physically like Makar, but like Cale, he tends to pinpoint his targets and doesn't go out all the time. One of his best elements is anticipation, there were some extremely smart plays where he saw where the play was going and used his skating ability to steal the puck and make a very quick counter. Truthfully, this might be his best version of defence, using his anticipation and skating ability by reading the opposing team's play and countering this by stealing pucks before the opponents have a chance to set up a play. I see Erik Gustafsson/Neal Pionk in his game as I don't think it is fair to compare anybody to Makar (except Lane Hudson). If he doesn't improve his play away from the puck, we at least got a Marc-Andre Bergeron/Kyle Cuminskey type of player.
Pros
- When he gets to top speed, he is close to impossible to stop
- Amazing ability to walk the blueline and change shooting angles
- Very deceptive from the point, great vision when it comes to shot-pass tips
- Cerebral player, especially when defending knowing he won't ever beat players 1v1 with size
Cons
- His first stride is pretty dang lacklustre
- His shot is awful, especially the heaviness of it
- Too slender, will definitely need to bulk up
- Huge puck watcher in the defensive zone
- Tends to use his stick too much when defending, I want him to be more involved with his body around the net
He is a big-time puck-rushing defenceman who is very crafty and uses his agility to honestly fool around with opposing forechequers at times. He uses fakes, body jukes, changing the pace, and the all-the-above to make space and ankle-break players. A bit cocky and confident in his ability with the puck, I actually like to see that. His play away from the puck needs work, his biggest weakness is puck-watching and leaving opposing players open in front of the net all the time. Another weakness is his defensive ability in the corner, especially when battling for pucks. He isn't truly terrible, but something he can work on by outsmarting opposing players.
He also has dished some pretty big hits from what I've seen by standing up in the defensive zone and catching players off balance. He's quite deceptive physically like Makar, but like Cale, he tends to pinpoint his targets and doesn't go out all the time. One of his best elements is anticipation, there were some extremely smart plays where he saw where the play was going and used his skating ability to steal the puck and make a very quick counter. Truthfully, this might be his best version of defence, using his anticipation and skating ability by reading the opposing team's play and countering this by stealing pucks before the opponents have a chance to set up a play. I see Erik Gustafsson/Neal Pionk in his game as I don't think it is fair to compare anybody to Makar (except Lane Hudson). If he doesn't improve his play away from the puck, we at least got a Marc-Andre Bergeron/Kyle Cuminskey type of player.
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