Jacobv2 said:
Vlad, what are your impressions of Crosby?
Great! Nothing really shocking or anything
Down from the savior talks but definitly an elite prospect. I think his physical strength is overhyped (after having previously been labeled as weakness, which was *********) and his goalscoring ability underhyped.
Have you noticed a thread about the best pure goal scorers in the NHL? I don't think I even saw Mario's name pop up on the thread and he is one of the scariest player around the net with out-of-this-world accuracy. I think Crosby is a lot better goalscorer than he gets credit for but like Mario he uses hockey sense and feeds people so his goalscoring is overlooked. He can be really sneaky, positions himself well or can battle.
He has higher
upside than any prospect in a long time but it's a toss up between him and Ovechkin for me as far as prospect rankings, and I'd choose Ovechkin to be on the safe side.
If the NHL is serious about rules changes, it should be an even better day for Pittsburgh.
He is absolutely NOT the next Forsberg and is not going to be as powerful as Peter unless something unexpected happens. He's going to score more goals and is in-between Forsberg and Kariya as far as style and assets he can use.
Everybody is going to love him, I think. He competes really hard. But he's not the superhuman phenom the media have made him out to be, IMO. With the new rules, it's tough to say how it's gonna play out.
