Star players with limited skating/speed?

[Ignatius]

Luc Robitaille

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Obviously not the caliber of a Tavares but Tyler Toffoli has improved his skating from beer league to merely abysmal.

 

[zzoo]

Average: Jagr, Tavares
Slow: Thornton, Spezza (when he was in his prime)
Very slow: Allison, Robitaille

 

[StatisticsAddict99]

Laine...

 

[Bizz]

Thornton has always been a strong skater. Not very fast but players his size usually aren't.

 

[Neutral Hockey Fan]

This thread screams (as many others have pointed out) Patrik "I look like I'm wearing ankle weights when I skate" Laine

At least he has a good shot to help make up for all his other deficiencies, though. With his shot, he should be good for 35 or so goals most seasons.

 

[SotasicA]

The first person I thought of was Tavares.

I think skating is also overrated. There's a ton of super fast players who can't even crack their team's lineup. It's important to have good balance and maybe a good powerful first stride, but beyond that vision and hands and other hockey playing abilities dominate over pure speed. It's not often a hockey player even needs his top speed. There's short sprints to try and be the first player to touch the puck on an icing, but how is that an important enough ability that will keep you on the roster?

Speed, however, is a great complement to an already great player.

 

[FlyTimmo]

Claude Giroux isn't the quickest.

Giroux, similar to Gostisbehere, has fairly poor top end speed, but he makes up for it with very good agility and above average acceleration.

 

[Ryan Michaels]

Well nowadays there is atleast 4 generational players at any time

Right, we should only have 1 like always, I mean could you imagine if Crosby, Malkin and Ovie played at the same time?

 

[McDNicks17]

Is Derek Stepan a star?

 

[Lowered Expectations]

If we rate Kadri as star, then he. He is slower than Komarov! The Great Race: Komarov proves he's faster than Kadri

 

[MacDonald4MVP]

Subban

 

[PunkRockLocke]

He's a future star, but Brock Boeser is pretty slow

 

[NoMessi]

Neither Crosby or Malkin are that fast anymore. They just do everything else faster than everyone.

 

[HanSolo]

Struggling Corey Perry has been mentioned already but not one person has said Getzlaf? Weird.

 

[thesensguy]

Stone is real slow.

 

[Phil McKraken]

Dany "****in All-Star" Heatley

Stone feet? Hyeah watever, f***. Why don't you bring me a cleanex.

 

[eternalbedhead]

Another Getzlaf hat into the ring.

 

[firstemperor]

Since it said star players...I'd go with Laine, he's pretty below average in speed. To be fair, he's a bigger person.

On the Leafs, it's probably Kadri. He's not that fast, especially on a team with speedsters.

 

[Sol]

Jonathan Cheechoo is pretty slow.

 

[Bouboumaster]

Subban was fast, he isn't anymore.

However, his edgework is just freaking sick.