Camille the Eel
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Seems to me that Yvan was slightly more of a scorer than set-up man.
If Bratt ends up like him or even approaching him, he'd end up being viewed as the best pick of the 2016 draft by far.
Yes a great finisher but I’d have to go back and check who his centers were. The pocket Rocket, Peter Mahovlich, Jean Beliveau and our own Jacques Lemaire among others were with him over the period I seem to remember.
But Bratt has a great shot. I love his slapshot and actually wish he’d look for it more.
Really, though, it’s more his style of skating that recalls Cournoyer for me. How Bratt uses his speed to get everyone turned around and moving in one direction, whereupon his instinct is to cut back against the grain, or to circle back and find open space while everyone else is still going the other way. In fact I really don’t think he’s quite learned fully yet how to exploit that advantage. Because it can create great opportunities for him to shoot the puck from high danger areas that he’ll maybe learn to utilize more as he matures.