soothsayer
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- Oct 27, 2009
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Bouchard can't skate in the NHL. Needs at least another year of work.
His skating overall seems fine for the NHL. That pivot and gap control though. He's going to get torched in the early goings by even moderately fast guys, unless McLellan and staff become wizards at controlling his matchups. Even then . . . . He'll need a solid, solid defender beside him if he's going to succeed as a nineteen-year-old rookie, to mitigate overall the inevitable 1-on-1 battles he's going to lose.