If a player has good hickey IQ, he’s not going to lose it because he improves his skating.
So what you are saying is that we should have asked to Matheson to be slower so he would have been better?
It just doesn’t make sense at all. Getting faster can’t never be a bad thing for a hockey player.
A player just doesn’t become stupid because he can skate faster lol
Not stupid but blind and will usually start because of that hanging on too easily to the puck simply because you can’t see so well the ”open windows” for passing, because the time that they are open is much shorter. Or they start then losing the puck easier with a bad play because accurate passing during that very short ”open window time” is clearly more difficult.
It’s a natural thing to happen and if you understand anything about the laws of physics, you should really understand what I’m talking about. Very basic things honestly and if you truly deny this, I think there is no reason to continue this discussion, as you are then simply in somekind of denial for whatever reason. I’m just talking about some very clear and evident facts that there is no escaping from.
But the quicker and smarter hockey IQ a player has, the better is his ability to see plays and make good plays at very high speeds. But these kind of players are really a very small minority even in the NHL.
Matheson is clearly a quite low hockey IQ player for the NHL level, so he really should probably slow down his plays more often. But his problem is anyway relatively low hockey IQ for the NHL level, which he can somehow compensate with some other abilities.
But as hockey IQ is way more important than anything else in hockey, I have to say that I honestly wouldn’t want to have a player like him in my hockey team. Of course you can’t have every player as ideal as you would want to have, so I understand that it’s not just as simple as that.
But anyway, I don’t see there much hope with how Matheson is. Probably the only way to use him is to have him with your best two-way players so that his bad plays won’t make the worst kind of damage in general.
