Gumby
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X-SHARKIE said:Hello B-Mad, sorry I didn't reply sooner, i've had two hockey games and I've scouted the Badgers and a USHL game over the past two days.
Malkin plays great defensivlyh as well, very well rounded game, Safe pick with lots of upside.
Malkin well put in 30 goals as a high down the road, but he's the type of player that makes people around him better. I see Malkin as a 25 G 50 A kind of player. He could hit the 30-35 range though.
As a Caps fan you should be very happy next year if you land him in the draft. Down the road with players like him and Fehr,Semin,Johansson,Gordon,Sutherby, Nepriayev, ect and Ouelette in goal, mabey the caps well take another defensman like Barker to go along with Eminger and Yonkman?
Either way Malkin,Ovechkin,Olesz. Any team who lands one of those could be looking at the franchise guy. Back to the Kozlov comparison, some comparison in that is true, but I think Malkin well put up a much better career.
Well thanx for such a detailed post....I feel alot better about him. I noticed he was just basically putting up assists in the WJC box scores so I figured he's more of a passer, but put on a line with guys like Semin and Fehr (looks like a sniper from his stats) I'd certainly be more than happy. As for the Kozlov worries, if he does really have a good work ethic I think Malkin will be just fine 'cause Kozlov had all the tools in the world but never looked to put forth any effort to develop them thus has turned into nothing more than a average (if that) player (something that really irks me....especially after being scarred for life from the Caps Volchkov disaster).
As for Nepriayev, I see his name mentioned every once in awhile but even as a Caps fan I don't know a damn thing about him.....is he really NHL material?
Of course I want Ovechkin, but that ain't happenin with our luck (I still have a chair I broke when I fell in love with Samsonov and saw him sliding down the draft board just to be picked the pick before the Caps...one example of what I mean by our luck) and if they can't get Malkin (I really want him now) I'm a bit worried about Olesz with that concussion if it's really as bad as initially reported and with all the youth they have at D (as long as Yonkman can come back fully and finally stay healthy) I'd much rather have a scoring forward....especially since the owner was in the paper yesterday talking about finally rebuilding, thus trading off guys like Jagr, Lang, and maybe Bondra. Ah the hell with it, maybe I'll just sacrifice my little brother so we can just get Ovy!!