Noah Hanifin

[Beautvillier]

they haven't shown the improvement of hanifin. he'll be amazing, you will see.

he's proven he can play at the nhl level but nothing i've seen from watching the canes play the isles has shown me he's anything special. i think everybody knows he's got potential, but until he hits it there's a question mark.

 

[VoluntaryDom]

he's proven he can play at the nhl level but nothing i've seen from watching the canes play the isles has shown me he's anything special. i think everybody knows he's got potential, but until he hits it there's a question mark.

yeah, but I'm confident he can work it out

 

[NHL Dude 120]

would you folks say that he's an unremarkable dmen

 

[tarheelhockey]

would you folks say that he's an unremarkable dmen

If you had no context and simply saw him as an anonymous player, yeah. He's just league average for now.

 

[KPower]

He wouldn't go top 10 in a redraft.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

He wouldn't go top 10 in a redraft.

assuming 1 2 3 & 4 stay the same

pls list six players you would draft ahead of him

ie - him falling out of the top 10

 

[Havre]

assuming 1 2 3 & 4 stay the same

pls list six players you would draft ahead of him

ie - him falling out of the top 10

I really like Hanifin, but Werenski, Aho, Provorov are certainly good shouts.

A lot of potentially very good players in that draft, but so is Hanifin. It does look like he did go a bit too early though. We'll see.

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

I've seen Hanifin a few times in Tampa, And i've always liked what i've seen from him.

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

I've seen Hanifin a few times in Tampa, And i've always liked what i've seen from him.

No, you're wrong. He's garbage. He's like the opposite of Benjamin Button. Getting worse and worse by the second. Kid should hang them up at 20 because it's not going to get any better.

 

[therealkoho]

I think he'll settle in somewhere in the neighbourhood of JBoy eventually, a big fluid skater who is just short of the total package to be a #1

from what I've seen he's not quite there as yet, I think because of getting used to how fast the NHL game comes at you, but definitely a top 4 guy

*although to be sure...what do the advanced stats say about him

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

It’s too early to pass judgement. I mean, we saw two wildly different Noah Hanifins last season. For the ~3/4 of the season that Hainsey was in the Top 4 and Hanifin was paired with Tennyson/Dahlbeck, he was an overall disappointment that didn’t look NHL caliber at times. In the final ~1/4 of the season, after Hainsey got dealt and Hanifin was promoted to the Top 4 to play with Faulk/Pesce, he was a 20+ minute a night defender that scored at a 40+ point pace and played a very quiet defensive game.

The only thing I feel comfortable in saying at this point is that Hanifin is not good enough to carry an AHL/NHL-tweener partner, even in a sheltered role.