vadim sharifijanov
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- Oct 10, 2007
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i'm sure there are a lot of interesting instances of a team grabbing a player expecting him to be like his brothers or uncles or dad or whatever, expecting the last name to inject some culture into the lineup, and he totally disappointingly is not like them at all.
two recent examples are vancouver: we picked up markus granlund and our GM compared him patrice bergeron. but the expectation was that he would be a stereotypical finnish player like his brother, competitive, gritty, always moving his feet, just with a lower offensive ceiling. instead, he was one of the more passive players we'd seen in a while.
and then there's brandon sutter. traded to upgrade nick bonino with a "true" second line center, with the expectation that sutter means he will eat nails, set an example, and push a tractor uphill over his mother to get the puck. what we got was a lazy player who doesn't pass and calls out teenage teammates.
(obviously this thread isn't about where one player is awesome and the other sucks, like the gretzkys, or where one player is big and the other small, like the koivus, or where three players are good and the other is bad, like the staals. it's more like when you draft a sutter brother, the skill level might vary but you know what you're getting in the effort and toughness department, or when rookie ron hextall joined the flyers and was a violent maniac, you were like, yup that's about right.)
two recent examples are vancouver: we picked up markus granlund and our GM compared him patrice bergeron. but the expectation was that he would be a stereotypical finnish player like his brother, competitive, gritty, always moving his feet, just with a lower offensive ceiling. instead, he was one of the more passive players we'd seen in a while.
and then there's brandon sutter. traded to upgrade nick bonino with a "true" second line center, with the expectation that sutter means he will eat nails, set an example, and push a tractor uphill over his mother to get the puck. what we got was a lazy player who doesn't pass and calls out teenage teammates.
(obviously this thread isn't about where one player is awesome and the other sucks, like the gretzkys, or where one player is big and the other small, like the koivus, or where three players are good and the other is bad, like the staals. it's more like when you draft a sutter brother, the skill level might vary but you know what you're getting in the effort and toughness department, or when rookie ron hextall joined the flyers and was a violent maniac, you were like, yup that's about right.)
