Player Discussion: Mathew Barzal

[CREW99AW]

Congrats to Barzal.
I hope his contract calls for him to get a nice bonus.

 

[Big L]

Congrats to Barzal for winning. But these awards are cringe worthy to watch.

....except for the stunningly beautiful women there. :drool:

 

[BMOK33]

Just noticed Ledecky is sitting there. That’s the first sighting of him in ages

 

[SI90]

Just noticed Ledecky is sitting there. That’s the first sighting of him in ages

Malkin let him out.

 

[Kevin27NYI]

Why wasn't it unanimous?

Omg you remember that poster? What an ass lol

Dumb as rocks, that kid

 

[Islesfan22]

Ok great now let's go get Trotz and sign JT to an extension.

 

[PWJunior]

Why wasn't it unanimous?
Dumb as rocks, that kid

More creepy than dumb.

 

[eoin92]

This thing is cheesy as hell.

 

[ML19]

Pretty cool

 

[boredmale]

Congrats to Barzal.
I hope his contract calls for him to get a nice bonus.

I am fairly certain whoever wins an award gets like 250k automataically(it might be 500k)

 

[CREW99AW]

I am fairly certain whoever wins an award gets like 250k automataically(it might be 500k)

Good for the kid.

 

[BelovedIsles]

Came across this on LHH, the stat geeks are going to love this one.

Mathew Barzal: The Center Behind John Tavares

Great stuff. I didn’t need stats to substantiate what I saw, but I will say that over the course of the year I routinely saw teams put their D1s against Barz and NOT JT. Even better, he still produced.

You should post this in every Barzal thread in the general boards that try to undermine his performance. If you need added incentive, plenty of Leaf fans you can troll.

 

[SI90]

Did anyone see the magician throw a knife at Barzal? Wtf

 

[Quickdraw2828]

Did anyone see the magician throw a knife at Barzal? Wtf

It should have been Ladd

 

[SI90]

It should have been Ladd

It would have been such an isles thing for him to miss and hit Barzal causing nerve damage.

Why would the NHL even allow that?

 

[seafoam]

Did anyone see the magician throw a knife at Barzal? Wtf

That can never happen again.

 

[SI90]

That can never happen again.

Not to mention he already messed up the first trick.

 

[CREW99AW]

Did anyone see the magician throw a knife at Barzal? Wtf

A leaf fan?

 

[periferal]

Who in the **** voted Barzy 3rd?

Snow.



#bitter

 

[BelovedIsles]

Congrats to our...cough...new franchise center...cough...

 

[doublechili]

Who in the **** voted Barzy 3rd?

Yanni Gourde had one 1st place vote and Sergachev had two 2nd place votes. So I'm thinking some TBL writer voted Gourde #1 and Sergachev #2 and gave Barzel the 3rd vote.

 

[SI90]

Not that there would be a reason to but we can never trade Beauvillier lol

 

[dlawong]

A better comparison would be Barzal’s stats before Eberle’s comment and after Eberle’s comment.

I think Ebs is just try to parlay his own experience to Barzy. Ebs used to hold on the puck a lot in his younger days with the Oilers and he got checked and hit. He knows that after a while other teams learns your puck handling tendencies and start to wait for the right moment to steal the pucks from you. Even JT has learned that too. He also used to hang on the pucks longer but now he would try to move them a bit faster to avoid getting checked. The reason is that there are so many good checkers in NHL who can steal pucks from you once you stop skating and in fact some of them get to keep their jobs in the NHL because they are exceptionally good at doing exactly that. Holding the pucks too long is especially dangerous when you do it near your own blue line. One successful steal will send a fast moving opposing players on a partial breakaway the other way. Marner did that quite a bit last year too but soon he learns that this is not junior and he needs to be more careful. Thus he does not do that as much now. I think it is the same way with Johnny Hockey from Calgary as well.

Barzy is extremely talented but he can still learn from others who knows because they have been there.

 

[GrandmaSlices51631]

Not that there would be a reason to but we can never trade Beauvillier lol

Hopefully we can give them both long term deals when they are due. Once we get Bellows on an ELC, that is one POTENT line!!

 

[Instant]

I think Ebs is just try to parlay his own experience to Barzy. Ebs used to hold on the puck a lot in his younger days with the Oilers and he got checked and hit. He knows that after a while other teams learns your puck handling tendencies and start to wait for the right moment to steal the pucks from you. Even JT has learned that too. He also used to hang on the pucks longer but now he would try to move them a bit faster to avoid getting checked. The reason is that there are so many good checkers in NHL who can steal pucks from you once you stop skating and in fact some of them get to keep their jobs in the NHL because they are exceptionally good at doing exactly that. Holding the pucks too long is especially dangerous when you do it near your own blue line. One successful steal will send a fast moving opposing players on a partial breakaway the other way. Marner did that quite a bit last year too but soon he learns that this is not junior and he needs to be more careful. Thus he does not do that as much now. I think it is the same way with Johnny Hockey from Calgary as well.

Barzy is extremely talented but he can still learn from others who knows because they have been there.

I'm not saying that you're wrong, but that's just a little insider joke someone *cough* can't let go. Eberle made that comment and after that Barzal had like a three or four games where he didn't seem like his usual self, so we had a poster here screaming doom and gloom and how Eberle ruined Barzal and how Mat will never be the same player again. So everytime you see something along the lines of "Eberle ruined everything", it's a joke