It's a really weird/interesting pick.
I'm probably the biggest supporter around of taking high-skill smallish overage players with mid-late round picks. But there's '5-9 170 small' and then there's '5-7 139 small'.
I feel like there's a 1% chance we've done something genius and drafted a Russian Johnny Gaudreau and a 99% chance that in 10 years we'll be laughing about the time our scouts took a 139 lb Russian in the same way we laugh about that guy we picked from the Q about 15 years ago who had 1 goal and 653 PIMs.
I had no clue Byron had such unimpressive stats in his draft year. He really beat out the odds because that’s not the profile of an NHL regular.I remeber the last time I laughed at a team that selected such a diminutive player... that player turned out to be Paul Byron. So I'll reserve my judgement
Everybody seems to be speculating about this guy's vinegary piss. It's one of those weird old phrases that somehow carries on.a player with tonnes of piss and vinegar.
He absolutely wrecks a guy that is 6'0 175 in this video:
He's got some piss and vinegar in his game.
not the highlights i was expecting
Now we have someone who can fight gaudreau and we don't have to feel guilty about it.Thanks for the video links. If he's like 140 pounds, he looks more like a professional light wealterweight boxer than say Quinn Hughes.