Dermott a really good skater, can he skate like Dermott?
Koster is a pretty good skater. Their straight line speed is similar. I will have to watch more games to have a firm decision on koster’s mobility, but his technique is pretty good. From the brief glimpses of the game i saw today, koster is a fast decision maker and will box out the front of the net. He’s definitely better than whoever his d partner is as koster is really good at exiting the zone. On the pp, i’ve only seen him do one zone entry and it wasn’t good. They do that drop-pass play. His positioning is not bad.
The one downside to koster playing on the stacked team is that the entire team is pretty young so don’t expect high point totals until 2022 unless faber, johnson, and lacombe leave early. Of the three, i suspect johnson may leave the earliest (buf may pressure him to leave out of stupidity lol).
Koster makes the fewest mistakes in my opinion so he is similar to dermott in that regard. Before the season, i thought he was a pure offensive defensemen.
On a separate note, i am going to watch some tyler klevin for s**** and giggles during the wjc. He wasn’t that bad in the few shifts i saw. Sanderson was horrible in the first period.
