I generally disagree with you. Just because he plays in the AHL/NHL doesn’t mean he can’t advance his game and get better.
You said you either have it not. So pretty much at the age of 21 Tage is done. His shot will not get better.
You say to improve his ability at this time of development at the old age of 21 it is pretty much Impossible to do by everything your saying.
Thank you for clearing it up for me.
Perfectly fine to disagree. I'm simply saying to significantly improve certain individual skills at the nhl level is extremely difficult.
Incremental bumps for skating, sure, physical strength, yes. Slight improvements to stick handling under pressure, sure.
But reality is that by 20 or so, the vast majority of players are locked into a lot of their basic offensive abilities at high speed under pressure.
Crosby is one of the only players I have ever seen who dramatically improved himself with specific skills after arriving in the nhl. He manufactured himself into an excellent shooter, particularly at one timers, after being pretty average at them when he joined the league. But like Dahlin he came in at a young 18 and has inhuman hand eye.
Again, I'm not saying people don't improve. If you never played as a kid, but train as an adult, you will definitely see big jumps of improvement.
But at this level its different. The amount of work needed to put in to improve even a tiny bit is enormous, and if your base is to low, you'll never catch up.
Take Olofsson's goal today, he has been shooting that way since he was drafted. Sure he got stronger, quicker, a little sharper in his accuracy from probably 16-20. But I have seen him make that same shot with the same casual execution for 3 years now against professionals.
People in general are optimistic about development in lots of things, but there is a good reason why nhl stars are pretty heavily weighted towards elite play as late teens or major physical development and why the Mark Mancari's of the world can dominate the ahl and never come close to nhl competency.