deadhead
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Are you saying you think Brink has average offensive skills? Average compared to what? Physical skills like hard shot and stick handling or mental like vision and iq.
I was responding to Ted's assertation that his off puck skills were enough to make him valuable, i.e., good enough to make him a NHL player if he had only average offensive skills.
QUOTE="VladDrag, post: 163661221, member: 298321"]He just does a lot of very good things for his hockey club. He's such an effective player, and he's tenacious. He is a guy that adds value to your lineup even if he's not relied on to be a primary goal scorer. .
Brink is one of those players who is useful because of his tenacity/compete level. If he isn’t scoring, he impacts the game in other ways: winning battles, cycling the puck, creating space for himself & his teammates with his deception, forechecking, and through his back-checking.
The idea that he’ll be a liability if he isn’t scoring or that he’s a “one zone player” has a whiff of: “I’ve only seen him play a few times and I’m basing my critiques/player projections off of this limited sample size.”
My point was that his tenacity/compete level is insufficient to overcome his lack of size combined with average skating and offensive skills.
That is, if he wasn't an excellent playmaker with an exceptional shot and high hockey IQ, he'd have zero chance of being a NHL player.
And I'm still waiting for the counter-example, a player his size with average skating and offensive skills who IS a NHL player.