Not too worried for this kid. He will find his footing in Utica adjust to playing against top line fringe NHLers.
I expect him to be on the bottom pairing come Christmas, wouldn't be surprised to see him with Tanev at the end of the season.
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I agree with the notion that he isn't or never will be a #1 D he has the tools to be a reliable #2 behind Hughes, Tanev and Edler . He just lacks the high end skill to be considered top tier. He will be really good for us. Personally I project him as a Kevin Klein (with a better first pass) type player, quiet , defensively sound and does the little things right.
Give him time fam, you will all hate him less when he figures it out, I promise. You will still hate the pick at 5 but you can't blame the player.
Hopefully Trent Cull can get this kid to show some damn emotion.
He's gonna be a stud for us.
Love how calm he is. Excessively cocky at this stage. but as he develops, he'll be Casual Kev on roids..
Yeah guess theres still a lotta hope for a guy with that talent. Ups and downs and not producing like a normal top 5 pick but some guys are late bloomers i guess. Guess we can hope for thatHe's gonna be a stud for us.
Love how calm he is. Excessively cocky at this stage. but as he develops, he'll be Casual Kev on roids..
He's gonna be a stud for us.
Love how calm he is. Excessively cocky at this stage. but as he develops, he'll be Casual Kev on roids..
And SaloWait, so he’s going to be like Tanev but also like Bieksa?
He was never a Canuck - get with the program.and don't forget lidstrom
That says a lot about the quality of the blueline that Benning has assembled. No, this isn’t a shot at Juolevi (who I still have high hopes for) but that a rookie coming off an major injury is still better than some of the trash on D at this point.As good or better than half the D on the final roster.
I dont want to turn this into a Benning discussion but after Tryamkin left and he couldn't undue the Gudbranson failure (Demers sais NO) He kinda blew the potential to do anything other than wait for developing prospects. Good UFA's IMO were not coming here and trading for a legit top4 costs a fortune.That says a lot about the quality of the blueline that Benning has assembled. No, this isn’t a shot at Juolevi (who I still have high hopes for) but that a rookie coming off an major injury is still better than some of the trash on D at this point.
His good plays were more numerous than his bad plays and those bad plays have to do with a lack of physicality which could be reasonably explained away by his back injury in the summer and it being a meaningless preseason game
Your post is so unbelievably illogical that I can only conclude that you are again posting intentionally stupid things in an attempt to troll this subforum.[/QUOTE said:He might be wrong, but there's nothing illogical about the post, much less "unbelievably" illogical or intentionally stupid. Juolevi might be behind and tentative because of his injury. That's an obviously logical possibility.