Player Discussion Zach Hyman

[MettleMcOiler]

 

[McSpecial DraiBlend]

This is the type of player we have been missing. Toronto is going to miss him a lot. Fans are going to love him.

 

[JordanGalhanth]

Hyman explains his decision to sign with Oilers - Sportsnet.ca

Comes across as a thoughtful and high character guy, I think he’ll bring a lot to this team off the ice.

He strikes me as an engaging and intelligent person who is a professional through and through. He’s going to be a fan favourite. The full interview in the second link is a good interview.

Sure, an airplane ticket might be chump change for him...but good on him for taking the initiative to check out the city and the team on his own terms.

 

[Del Preston]

Looks like he's going to wear #18.

 

[ehhteen]

The way Hyman plays with his relentless forecheck and constant motor, I feel it’s gonna really rub off on young guys like Foegele/Yamamoto. Our forecheck this coming season is going to be insane. Maybe just maybe this + fans coming back will reinvigorate a guy like Kassian and he’s gonna be just a menace out there.

Super excited to see Hyman play. He’s gonna be a fan favourite as early as Game 1.

 

[FrozenJagrt]

Hyman is a guy that jumpstarts every line he plays on. Great defensively, one of the best forecheckers in the league, he knows his job, and it's one he does very well: dig the puck out of the dirty areas and throw it out front to the star on his line. Seriously, the guy has eyes in the back of his head, always seems to know where his stars are on the ice.

While his hands have improved a ton and he will get a few goals, he's never going to be a sniper. He'll hit a lot of chest protectors for sure. But he knows where to be on the ice to bury some garbage goals.

I haven't been this disappointed to see a guy leave the Leafs since Sundin. Treat him well, Oilers fans. He's a hard working guy with a ton of character (which surprised me given his family is quite well off, guess that says more about me though). I have a feeling he'll join the likes of Bozak, Kaberle and Kessel as guys who left Toronto and quickly won a cup.

 

[AddyTheWrath]

Looks like he's going to wear #18.

Didn't Strome wear that too? They even look kind of similar.

 

[Dirk Dangler]

He’ll be the right shot net front presence. Him and Pulju will likely get split reps but I’d imagine Hyman would have the inside track on PP1 to start.

And I think that will be a huge boost to an already great PP. if there was a weakness it was Neal and Chiasson. Although they are decent in front of the net both of those guys were too slow and could not maintain or regain possession for the skilled guys, which is Hyman’s bread and butter.

 

[MettleMcOiler]

 

[McGoMcD]

The way Hyman plays with his relentless forecheck and constant motor, I feel it’s gonna really rub off on young guys like Foegele/Yamamoto. Our forecheck this coming season is going to be insane. Maybe just maybe this + fans coming back will reinvigorate a guy like Kassian and he’s gonna be just a menace out there.

Super excited to see Hyman play. He’s gonna be a fan favourite as early as Game 1.

Yup. Our forecheck will hem teams in big time. This is the game in the new NHL. Get turnovers. McDavid and Drai will thrive with players like Hyman and Foegele, along with Yamo and Kass.

 

[Del Preston]

Crazy how many goals he scores from inside the hash marks. Ryan Smyth Jr.

 

[Louis Cypher]

Hopefully with Hyman, Foegele and Archibald as energy guys maybe it will rub off on Kassian and he will return to form.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

The way Hyman plays with his relentless forecheck and constant motor, I feel it’s gonna really rub off on young guys like Foegele/Yamamoto. Our forecheck this coming season is going to be insane. Maybe just maybe this + fans coming back will reinvigorate a guy like Kassian and he’s gonna be just a menace out there.

Super excited to see Hyman play. He’s gonna be a fan favourite as early as Game 1.

Hopefully with Hyman, Foegele and Archibald as energy guys maybe it will rub off on Kassian and he will return to form.

I don't think this rubs off or reinvigorates Kassian, however it does put him in a much better spot.

Short of a few games vs. SJ in the playoffs, Kassian has never been much of a kamikaze forechecker, even when the Oil needed him to be. He's far better as the second guy in and in a support role. It's why he's worked well with Drai, who's a monster when it comes to possession along the boards.

However, if he's lining up across from Archibald or Foegele, he gets to go back to that second-man-in, where he's far more effective.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Speaking of puck hounds, I can only hope we get to see a line of

Hyman-Holloway-Yamamoto

in the near future.

 

[Stoneman89]

The way Hyman plays with his relentless forecheck and constant motor, I feel it’s gonna really rub off on young guys like Foegele/Yamamoto. Our forecheck this coming season is going to be insane. Maybe just maybe this + fans coming back will reinvigorate a guy like Kassian and he’s gonna be just a menace out there.

Super excited to see Hyman play. He’s gonna be a fan favourite as early as Game 1.

I think Foegele and Yamo already bring that to their game. Kassian is the one that could watch and learn.

 

[Not Canada Drai]

First three goals with our monster Marty Marincin on the ice. Classic.

 

[Mr Positive]

It's also good to have an older and younger version of a player. Foegele can learn a lot from Hyman. In time, they likely switch roles

 

[oobga]

Does Hyman help ensure that Tippett puts McDavid and Drai on different lines? If that is the case, then I'm even more excited about this pickup.

It's not like Tippett couldn't do the obvious before and make a more balanced attack with 2 lines, but whatever it takes to push him away from the 1 line team is a great benefit to the team.

 

[Stoneman89]

But......who's going to dig out pucks for Nostrils and Marner now?

 

[Mr Positive]

Does Hyman help ensure that Tippett puts McDavid and Drai on different lines? If that is the case, then I'm even more excited about this pickup.

It's not like Tippett couldn't do the obvious before and make a more balanced attack with 2 lines, but whatever it takes to push him away from the 1 line team is a great benefit to the team.

If you were in Tippett's spot you would do the same. You never want to put your best players on one line but you do it if the alternative is making lines with one decent player on it, and the opposition just double checks them and paralyzes everything

 

[ehhteen]

Does Hyman help ensure that Tippett puts McDavid and Drai on different lines? If that is the case, then I'm even more excited about this pickup.

It's not like Tippett couldn't do the obvious before and make a more balanced attack with 2 lines, but whatever it takes to push him away from the 1 line team is a great benefit to the team.

Seems like it. Only really time you see them load up is probably near the end of a period, after a penalty kill, or if we’re down with like 10 minutes to go.

Draisaitl - McDavid - Hyman would be a nasty nasty line.

 

[Dorian2]

 

[Messrules11]

I can only hope Hyman is as good as advertised in this thread. I’ll judge for myself.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

It's also good to have an older and younger version of a player. Foegele can learn a lot from Hyman. In time, they likely switch roles

And Holloway. Pulju, Yamamoto, Hyman, Holloway and Foegele are dogged on pucks. No easy games against the Oilers just because Connor or Leon has an off night any more.

 

[snipes]

Hopefully with Hyman, Foegele and Archibald as energy guys maybe it will rub off on Kassian and he will return to form.

Holloway will come in and bang too. He’s relentless on the forecheck if he’s getting playing time.