ConnorMcMullet
#12 Colby Cave
- Jun 10, 2017
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Continuiation of previous post...
Here Podkolzin is at the right faceoff circle with control of the puck and has all the time in the world to make a simple pass to his defenseman at the blueline which would be the smart play here. Instead he opts to dangle with three opponents surrounding him. He is skilled enough to pull it off the first time, but then he gets the puck again on the other side of the ice, fails to shield the puck and cause instead a turnover.
Last clip. He carries the puck up the ice trying to gain the zone on the power play. Opts for a very dangerous play where he tries to carry it in himself again surrounded by three opponents instead of taking a safer option.
For Podkolzin to be successful playing the style that he is he would need to be a lot more shifty, explosive and elusive of a skater (think Johnny Gaudreau) and/or a lot stronger on the puck. This was a game against kids in MHL and I still saw him get muscled off the puck rather easily a number of times. For a kid who supposedly is 6'1, 190 lbs, he's not very strong.
And it's evident not just in this video but in every other video I've seen with him, whether it's the Ivan Hlinka, the VHL or MHL.
Have you see Pavel Dorofeyev at all? What do you think of him?
He has 1.63 ppg in the MHL vs 0.66 for Podkolzin.