It does seem that many posters are deceived by Jake's skating. They see him steaming through the middle of the ice in OT and they get visions of another Pavel Bure. When I first watched him in Calgary it's definitely the part of his game I first noticed. I thought he had the potential to be a great zone entry player. The problem, of course, is that he has little idea of where to skate with the puck or what to do with it, and he's kinda just barely in control of it when it's on his stick.
Jake's definitely skating pretty fast in the clip right above my post. The part I notice is that McDavid ends up pretty easily lifting Jake's stick and changes his shooting angle, forcing him to put a weak attempt right into the goalie's pads.
Jake had a couple breakaways in previous games this week. He created both with great bursts of speed. Both times he made a lame five hole move that the goalie easily stopped. This was a bit of a change from some other chances he's created with his speed, the ones where he wires a wrist shot two feet over the crossbar.
Anyway I'm done posting about Jake, I'm sorry I posted today. I fully admit I have a grudge against him, because in addition to being a huge, huge disappointment as a player he also comes across as a lazy, entitled, morning skate-skipping ****head. He also plays fortnite?? It's a game for babies. Whatever, I hope he proves me wrong! I really do.
