Was really hoping to see Smith with Tkachuk because that's the kind of player I think Smith needs. And he got a shift with him! Hopefully more to come, but it seems he's rotating between the Farabee/Leonard line and the Tkachuk/Caufield line.
Some minor praise for Smith on the main board GDT... any commentary from us biased sharks fans?
I feel like I'm as critical of Smith as anyone, but from his limited ice time, I thought he looked quite good. Gave good effort to get to loose pucks and support defensively. Wasn't cheating out of the zone, etc. He setup a couple of nice chances too. Hopefully this buys him more ice time in future games.Some minor praise for Smith on the main board GDT... any commentary from us biased sharks fans?
Sample size aside, this sounds promising as far as player development goes.I feel like I'm as critical of Smith as anyone, but from his limited ice time, I thought he looked quite good. Gave good effort to get to loose pucks and support defensively. Wasn't cheating out of the zone, etc. He setup a couple of nice chances too. Hopefully this buys him more ice time in future games.
This makes it sound like the issues people had/have with his game were just coaching.I feel like I'm as critical of Smith as anyone, but from his limited ice time, I thought he looked quite good. Gave good effort to get to loose pucks and support defensively. Wasn't cheating out of the zone, etc. He setup a couple of nice chances too. Hopefully this buys him more ice time in future games.
Nominally on NHL Networkwhere are you guys watching this?
The world championships aren't really the best players from each country. A lot of the time Team Canada skates guys that compared to the countries best, look like house league players.Kunin, not good enough to play for the bottom feeder San Jose Sharks according to some here, but is good enough to be invited to team USA world championship team.
The whole Tkachuk NHL lineage has always been classless.Well, all Willy Smith does is score. 1+1 today in the last warm-up game vs. Slovakia. A couple of ill-advised passes, definitely got victimized on the Slafkovsky goal (although it wasn’t really on him as much as Farabee), and could stand to put on some muscle, but a good showing overall. Didn’t look out of place against a good team and the second effort on his goal was really nice, exactly what I want to see from him.
Brady Tkachuk is such a tool. Great player, but always yapping about something or other. Like, you’re up 5-2 with a minute left in a friendly match against Slovakia. Genuinely, shut up.
Nothing is worse than trying to search for Will Smith highlights on Twitter and getting bombarded by Will Smith the actor references.Filthy move from Smith to set up Werenski for a gimme shot that barely missed. Hopefully someone gif’s that, it was pretty nice.
Even worse is the randos showing up with ‘Smith’ in their handle and the word ‘will’ in the tweet.Nothing is worse than trying to search for Will Smith highlights on Twitter and getting bombarded by Will Smith the actor references.
It used to not be that bad until the "Will Ryan Smith move the Utah hockey team..."Nothing is worse than trying to search for Will Smith highlights on Twitter and getting bombarded by Will Smith the actor references.
Even worse is the randos showing up with ‘Smith’ in their handle and the word ‘will’ in the tweet.