jalperi
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Here is a goal. Somehow video loading time is long:
He is everything this team needs and everything our coach hates.
Bowman and Q could not be more polar opposites and now that we are rebuilding a defense I think it’ll be more apparent and cause more issues.
Looks promising but these young guys that will come and go for nothing as the team’s cap is gonna be taken up by some under performing useless players. Schmaltz in his last year next year, instead of the Hawks using him as a depth player to win cups and go deep, now he is a main player and the team will waste his 3 ELC for nothing, same thing will happen as prospects come in and out till the 4 pathetic contacts are gone. The way to win cups is have a performing core and young guys to be depth players until some take over the core position. Stan decided to stick with same core for more than ten years and failed which was a colossal mistake.
Stan the man got rid of the exciting Panarin for the supposed and I emphasize supposed “two way” juggernaut Saad which fits exactly the Q bill so your claims are not entirely true of Stan not being conforming to Qs ideologies.
Just looking up his stats and realized something, this kid is still 18 until the middle of June. He's only about 3 months older than 2018 draft eligible prospect Brady Tkachuk and 4 months older than Quinn Hughes. There were certainly younger players that have been drafted (the cutoff is hitting 18 by mid September), but how he's performed and progressed, I just imagined he was at least 19 by now.
It'll be super impressive if he snatches a spot away from a more developed player in the worlds. And he's looking like he stands a decent chance at doing just that.
When you say "he deserved it", do you mean that purely based off of his skill level or were you just impressed with him in camp? I'm curious about how he performed at camp.He didn't get picked for the WHC team. A shame. He deserved it.
He scored two goals in the first EHT tourney and was solid in both ends of the ice. Coach Marjamaki wanted bigger Dmen, workhorse types, i think....because Honka and Heiskanen are already on the team.When you say "he deserved it", do you mean that purely based off of his skill level or were you just impressed with him in camp? I'm curious about how he performed at camp.
Related to Tkachuk, it's something I've repeatedly tried to remind people about when it comes to him and his season, draft-status, etc. In actual birthdate he's the same age as the others but he's a "Hockey Year" older than most of the rest of the top 10-15 1st-Rounders.
Yeah, definitely a couple red flags being both much bigger and a year older than his competition while having a better head start than most prospects given his family connections.
Well, I'm not sure I'd call them red flags, they're just things to be aware of. Technically speaking, his competition was all his age or older in the NCAA ranks (I know you meant his draftee competition). And the family connections don't mean much either, at least not to me. He played all the same levels anybody else has that's being drafted essentially and at the end of the day he's gotta be able to play, period. Which he can, and he will. Just worth remembering he's a "hockey year" older than the others so it sets him up to be NHL-ready quicker because he's had that extra year of development and experience.
What would you say is his floor and ceiling?
If he gets paired with a skilled Center, the sky can be the limit. In a perfect scenario with everything going right he can be a 65-ish point Winger in the NHL, I think. He'll need that Center, though. He's not going to carry play on his own. He's a demon below the face-off dots and will probably score 80% of his goals there.
Floor, he's probably a 45-50 point winger. Think Byfuglien at F with CHI but a bit more productive.
NHL Now talking about him as I type - Both EJ Hradek and Tyson Nash strongly believe he will be gone by the Coyotes pick at #5. Nash actually wants Brady Tkachuk more than anyone not named Dahlin for the draft for the Yotes. They both feel he is NHL ready and likely makes the jump next year- things some of us who have followed him have been saying as well. People are going to look very foolish on this kid when he is performing at a high level at the NHL. I expect nothing less than what his brother Matthew has done at the NHL level for Brady out the gate.
Now back to Jokiharju lol!
Sucks he didn't make the team, wish I could have gotten to see him in that atmosphere as I think it would help his transition to the Hawks next year immensely.
He didn't get picked for the WHC team. A shame. He deserved it.
Kotkaniemi or whatever his name is, is flying up the boards after U18, he might go top 3